TrackingPoint Rifles to Be Password Protected

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmYBpRZW6Z8

TTAG’s been tracking TrackingPoint’s “precision guided rifle” for some time. We just blogged Remington’s announcement that its super-secret Venture X project is a TrackingPoint rifle of one sort or another. The Austin company’s software/hardware combo makes it possible for just about anyone to hit a long range target with a rifle. That’s a good thing, right? Public radio station KUT is not so sure. In fact, they found someone, a vet no less, to throw cold water on the whole idea . . .

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Remington + TrackingPoint = Venture X

Lauren Rich (courtesy 30a.com)

Well the mystery’s over. Remington’s announced that its forthcoming Venture X project is a firearm incorporating TrackingPoint’s tracking technology—just as Nick “Soothsayer” Leghorn predicted. And tested. We’re talking about a Remington-branded “precision guided firearm” or (PGF as I’ve dubbed it) that makes the worst hunter into a Lauren Rich [gratuitously depicted above] or a gender appropriate version thereof and posts the whole thing to YouTube or Facebook. Now I could say something about the company that owns Remington and their track record with companies assimilated into the Freedom Group borg (cough Marlin cough) and the fact that Cerberus’ ballistic baby is on the chopping block (to be stripped and flipped by its owners to themselves) but that would be churlish. Enjoy the cash infusion gentlemen. You’ve earned it. Press release after the jump . . .

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