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It’s not as simple as it seems. Oak tree partnered with armatix for some range equipment not smart guns. David Codrea has more on his blog.
It should be made loud and clear, that any gun shop or retailer who supports Armatix will get no support from any gun owners.
We can spend our money at any shop, but none that supports or sells Armatix products.
If you wish to quickly go out of business, please try to sell an Armatix product. You have the full 100% right to sell whatever you like, and we have the full 100% right to take our business someplace else.
Hopefully I have made that abundantly clear for others gun shops who are thinking of selling any Armatix product now or in the future.
What’s to stop Shannon Watts from getting her FFL and opening a gun store for the express purpose of selling the Armatrix?
First guess? An irrational fear and hatred of ALL things firearms.
Coffee just came out of my nose at the idea of SW trying to sell a gun…
Now there’s an image to Photoshop.
Hey, I even have the name for their Tuesday evening league – the Wattsmen!
Technology can solve many problems, but gun violence and shooting deaths are a people problem and unless your willing to take away their freedoms(enslave us) like the antis want to do; you will never fully control people.
If the antis get their way, we will have a concentration camp instead of a country.
They might have gone into this with only good intentions, but we are all at least partly judged by the company we keep, and in this current climate of constant progressive attacks on the 2A, there’s really no excuse for a gun store to not realize when they’re going against the grain of their customers.
You need an Irresponsible Gun Owner of the Year category for this guy.
Awww.
Go to Radio Shack. Buy some relatively simple electronic components. Assemble them into a frequency disrupter device. Turn these guns into rocks.
Why do you think the LEOs bailed out so early?
They were interested initially ‘cuz of the ‘killed with his own gun’ thingy that, once in a very, very great while, haunts policemen.
Zero interest today.
Don’t hurt gun dealers over this. They don’t make dumb laws.
A home with children may have carefully considered use for a firearm with this technology. Not for home defense, but a backyard plinker maybe.
I’m so uninterested in one of these guns that I won’t bother to look up how watch/gun combo works/communicates so I will assume it is some type of wireless technology. So how long until the bad guys figure out how to “jam” the radio signals while they are nearby (disabling the gun)? How long until the govmint can disable this contraption on demand?
In zero time. The technology already exists to Jam cell phones etc. The technology is most likely not encrypted and has no fail safe should the transmission be jammed. It probably will take a few hours or less for someone at the many hacker conferences to come up with something that would both jam the signal and also allow use without the wristwatch
It is a technology that makes no sense as long as the government or anyone else can disable it.
As some have said above, the next logical conclusion is for the government to require these guns to be sold and then to make a device that will disable them.
We have already seen what the NSA has done the DOJ has done to trample all over the constitution, for the gun grabbers this is simply the next step and given that Belinda Padilla pledged cooperation with the UN’s global “gun control” efforts it is the only inevitable conclusion.
They will “try” to sell this “for safety” but you need to look deeper.
There’s no rifle.
TTAG doesn’t want to get sued by Italy.
At least before Foghorn is back on this side of the pond….
too early in the am for pics of franks and beans. . . . how about a NSFW and picture AFTER the jump?
The author is correct in noting that WHERE the DGU occurs makes a difference. Fortunately in Georgia it appears that the rights of the involved are still respected and no one is pre-judged solely because a gun was involved. Unfortunately for those of us in states such as Maryland (as well as NY, NJ, Washington, DC and other jurisdictions), no such respect is shown. The shooter, regardless of circumstances, will be arrested and charged with an offense. The shooter will be burdened with the expense of an attorney and the need to prove INNOCENCE to the state because the state assumes guilt. The newspapers will sensationalize the shooting incident. In those states, it’s still worth the consideration to remember that anything you say can and will be used AGAINST you.
It’s good to hear of states that respect the Constitution and all it’s citizens. It’s also good to read about constitutional LEO’s of which we need more.
I don’t understand what is illegal about it? Any attorneys care to elaborate?
How about if they wait till school lets out and then pick off a couple of kids from the attic window? “Armed suicidal person” is very different from “responsible gun owner”. I don’t see the kids as being imprisioned, either. Not all lockdowns are bad.
Unfortunately this world is filled with bad people!
I ordered a forearm from Boyd’s for a Rossi model 92 project. They shipped me a damaged forearm that was broken into at the front end. I called about sending back for a replacement. They said they would send a UPS return label. That never happened. I paid and shipped the forearm back. They refused to replace saying the forearm had been altered. I do not do my own stock work I use a local gun smith. I only open the box found the damage and returned exactly what they had sent me. So they screwed me out of $50 when over the years I have ordered hundreds and hundreds of dollars worth of product. I have had minor quality issues before from them but the gun smith had always fix it. I would recommend caution when dealing with Boyd’s or that you not trust or use Boyd’s.
I live in Cook County,Illinois. Nothing suspicious about anything written. The FOID is a load of crap foisted on us by leftwing commie Cook County Dumbocrats. Many years ago I worked in a mental health
facility. And the nurses did everything they could to make to make their job easier including gross overmedication. And there’s NO solution other than being a good,compliant patient.
Having spent 25 years in manufacturing, I can tell you that Kel-Tec is telling it like it is. Many respondents here simply do not understand how manufacturing works. Many gun companies, and others have sunk because they expanded beyond what their finances and available talent could support. Manufacturing simply does not “turn on a dime”. Attempts to do this usually result in quality control failures and customer disillusionment. The only partial exception are government contracts which allow companies to run like hell and damn the waste because the government is paying for it. Trust me, you do not want any company to “hurry” in making guns or anything else you want. Also, in the current market, extended overtime results in fatigue and morale problems and these will show up in the quality of the product. In other cases companies have put pressure on final inspectors to let shoddy products out the door. You don’t want this either. Considering the climate in the shooting world right now, we all just have to be PATIENT.
I prefer to call him “Dave.”
Hmm … maybe there is something to the notion that guys who own big guns are just “compensating”.
Very interesting read, and my hat is off to them for trying to bring some rigor to what will always be a highly subjective area. Thank you!
I am not surprised about the result with respect to the 1911; I still remember the first time I shot one, a range rental Kimber with a 5″ barrel. The pistol was so smooth and pleasant to shoot that I bought one. I should have bought a full size, though; the four inch barrel shoots a might sharper. Still, it made me a fan of the .45 almost immediately, having shot nothing but .22s and 9mms up to that point.
Would you be willing to give up your time and money to train – and be subject to call-up by municipal or state governments when needed, possibly without pay – to participate in a citizen militia, as discussed by Professors Amar and Reynolds?
Damn straight.
Certainly reforming the militias would be an inconvenience but the law could be rewritten in such a way that not everyone has to be a member.
I’m all for this because there are people who are simply uncomfortable around guns and I don’t want to compel them into using them. Frankly, someone who is afraid of firearms handling firearms scares me.
That said, rights are not absent responsibility. As a gun owner I am responsible for safe and secure use. Please don’t say “Is gun. Is not safe.” While that makes me chuckle, I disagree. Guns are ridiculously safe today. They don’t magically “go off” despite what the media may say and even when handled negligently it is the rare occurrence that someone is hurt and even less so killed. The most likely outcome is some minor property damage. I digress.
My point is, if we want to maintain the right to own a firearm then there should be some willingness to take further responsibility to keep them. While I am not for all people being forced into service in a militia, it should be an option for those that want to do more for their communities. Unfortunately, the media portrays the limited militias out there like a bunch of kooks. I’m sure some are, but I’m also sure some are quite harmless in their intent.
a fast lunchtime comment…
Whether you think you still have a militia or not, or whether it is currently “well-regulated” or not, while you have some respectable element of the citizenry who would turn out in a truly dire public emergency to protect their neighborhoods if all else failed, and I guess I don’t really even know what that emergency might be, and Heaven keep such a thing from happening, then you still have at least a theoretical militia.
I think it would be recognizable as such by the Founding Fathers.
Unless the population is disarmed.
Would you be willing to give up your time and money to train – and be subject to call-up by municipal or state governments when needed, possibly without pay – to participate in a citizen militia, as discussed by Professors Amar and Reynolds?
As opposed to surrendering my freedom incrementally over time as is the current case? Absofuckingloutly!
God forbid your kids soccer game, fishing trip, Golden Girl’s re-runs, or what ever else your “free time” entails, be sacrificed for liberty, freedom and civic duty.
Would you be willing to give up your time and money to train – and be subject to call-up by municipal or state governments when needed, possibly without pay – to participate in a citizen militia, as discussed by Professors Amar and Reynolds?
Yes indeedy!
Enter from a laptop or mobile? What about my desktop!? Tech racists!!
Lol, I’m done.
those still exists? haha just kidding, my brick and mortar unit is mostly suited for gaming and editing. don’t want to waste precious power using it to surf the interwebz
What ever happened to the Hippocratic Oath?
If teen pregnancy can be averted by sex ed then surely these tragedies can be solved with gun safety classes in schools, right?
All federally funded of course and, just as abstinence from sex is not promoted, it will be treated as normal and a given that guns are just a part of life.
Is there a similar law on the books for marriage licenses, drivers licenses, etc? Or do most states just use what little sense they have to create their own reciprocity agreements for those?
I’m always wary of any expansion of Federal power, even if it is for something I agree with. This sets a precedent, after all. What if State A has really lax Professional Engineering licensing, while State B is very strict. The federal government could also force State B to recognize Joe Engineer’s PE license from State A, which apparently gives them away like toys from a cracker jack box.
I know, I know, being a PE isn’t a constitutional right. But precedent is precedent. A long time ago we expanded the definition of “commerce”, and look where that’s gotten us.
The one thing that HAS changed during this 42 year dip in the crime rate is the globalist surge toward a takeover of the US government. It has reached treasonous proportions within the legislature, and the media during this time have been successful in instilling a state of fear into a group of emasculated, panty-wetting, feel-good-now, do-it-for-the-children Chicken-Little supporters currently represented by leftard liberal marxist socialists, hell bent on social collapse and bearing a latent death wish.
Clad I got that off my chest.
Whatever happened to Ryan Lanza? He got some press on day 1-2 and now he’s completely off the map.