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Biofire: California’s Handgun Roster Limits Buyers’ Choices to a Pool to Guns With Fewer Safety Features

March 5, 2025June 7, 2023 by Grace Stevens

Although the [California Unsafe Handgun Act]’s stated goal is safety, Biofire asserts that the UHA stifles innovation in firearm safety in two ways. First, by mandating a specific, novel, never-before-commercialized microstamping technology, the UHA requires emerging companies like Biofire to spend limited financial, research, and development resources to attempting (sic) implementation of the government’s specifically … Read more

BioFire Addresses Some Common Concerns About Their ‘Smart Gun’ and How it Works

March 5, 2025May 5, 2023 by Dan Zimmerman

We ran a post this week noting a podcast from our friends at Student of the Gun in which Professor Paul Markel discusses the new Biofire Smart Gun. Let’s just say Prof. Markel isn’t persuaded by what he’s seen so far. You can listen to the 20-minute podcast here. We contacted Biofire and they provided … Read more

Student of the Gun: Is the BioFire ‘Smart Gun’ a Misfire?

March 5, 2025May 3, 2023 by admin

Did BioFire, the makers of the latest “smart gun” travel 10,000 miles just to miss the point of being an armed citizen? During the latest episode of SOTG University podcast, Professor Paul Markel will consider this latest piece of high tech and whether or not it’s a solution looking for a problem or is … Read more

Biofire Isn’t Allowing Objective Reviews of Their New ‘Smart Gun’…Yet

March 5, 2025April 21, 2023 by TTAG Contributor

By Lee Williams You can reserve a $1,499 Biofire 9mm Smart Gun today for a refundable deposit of $149. You’ll get to pick the color of the frame, the trigger and the magazine release. You can choose a right- or-left hand model and add a custom serial number at no extra charge. Additional magazines are … Read more

The Biofire Smart Gun: It’s Still Just a Prototype, But It Seems to Be a Promising One

March 5, 2025April 18, 2023 by Serena Juchnowski

In John Scalzi’s military science fiction series Old Man’s War, protagonist John Perry joins the mysterious Colonial Defense Forces, essentially a space force from Earth sent around the universe to fight aliens. It sounds ridiculous in almost every way, with elderly Earthlings receiving new, improved bodies, with the exception of a considerable amount of plausible … Read more

Smart Tech Challenge’s ‘Smart Gun’ Search Misses the Mark

September 12, 2014 by Dan Zimmerman

“There’s a group from Silicon Valley that just gave a 17-year-old $50,000 to keep playing with guns. The Smart Tech Challenges Foundation, based in California’s tech capital, announced it is funding a young innovator from Colorado who is integrating a biometric sensor into a firearm that requires an authorized user’s fingerprint to discharge — and they claim … Read more

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