America’s gun owners can expect the calls for government to dictate so-called “smart guns” to ratchet up now that one company has delivered its first production guns to consumers. Biofire Group announced this week that it had shipped its first “Smart Guns,” which the company called a “key milestone.” “The Smart Guns shipped today are … Read more
To put today’s announcement that Biofire Technologies is finally raising the curtain on the Biofire Smart Gun into context, you have to dial the Wayback Machine all the way back to 2014. That’s when we first noted the news that a bunch of Silicon Valley tech types had cut a kid named Kai Kloepfer a … Read more
By Larry Keane There is a media blitz afoot, pitched by developers of authorized user recognition technology equipped firearms; what the media refers to as so-called, “smart guns.” Several of these companies herald that this is the year when they will finally bring their product to market. It might be a little premature to start … Read more
The gun control industry coined the term “smart guns” many moons ago to describe what to date have been a series of flawed, unreliable firearms. Every few years since then, pretty much like clockwork, the mainstream media get all excited when another carnival barker comes along with a new prototype of a new gun that … Read more
This Week in Gun Rights is TTAG’s weekly roundup of legal, legislative and other news affecting guns, the gun business and gun owners’ rights. Update and advice on the ATF proposed rule change We’ve been talking about this for a while, but last week saw the ATF finally posted the purported final version of … Read more
I ran across a new “smart gun” proposal, AI Can Stop Mass Shootings, and More. Yes, these people — three superior intellects who toil away at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute — are proposing that “ethical” artificial intelligence be built into guns, which would make them really smart guns. Allegedly. While we hope that such [conventional … Read more
By Larry Keane President Joe Biden said he’s figured it all out. Guns can be made safe if the firearm industry would just team up with Silicon Valley to create bio-enabled so-called “smart guns.” This is according to a long-buried interview with the Las Vegas Sun conducted during the presidential campaign. The information contained in it is … Read more
This Week in Gun Rights is TTAG’s weekly roundup of legal, legislative and other news affecting guns, the gun business and gun owners’ rights. Federal Bill Would Mandate Guns Be Made “Smart” Ah, the ever-present threat to increase the IQ of our tools. Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney has proposed a bill that would require all new … Read more
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