Smart technology in firearms is not new as we have heard about them for more than few years now. However, one has come to market now. And they want the consumers to approach it like the iPhone such that gun owners would feel socially inadequate without it…Idiots.
You let the free enterprise system take over. Just like everyone opted into the iPhone and abandoned the flip phone and BlackBerry, consumers will vote with their feet. We want gun owners to feel like they are dinosaurs if they aren’t using smart guns.
While it’s a great idea on paper, what’s to stop someone from making a device whose signal would override the one the smart gun owner is wearing, and render the smart gun useless? no thanks… I’ll stick to my “dumb” guns despite how “unsafe” they are… At least with them, I’m in total control of if, and when they fire…
1400$ for the gun + 300$ for the watch for a platform chambered in .22lr = :blink:
The only benifit of this technology I can see is that if someone gets your gun from you they can’t use it against you.
The far scarier implication is that it has the ability to be turned off by a remote signal. “Yes, you have the right to keep and bear arms, when we decide it is necessary” said the ATF spokesperson…
Conway, out in Silicon Valley, said: “You let the free enterprise system take over. Just like everyone opted into the iPhone and abandoned the flip phone and BlackBerry, consumers will vote with their feet. We want gun owners to feel like they are dinosaurs if they aren’t using smart guns.”
Guess what, dummy: the free enterprise system has been working all ready, and firearms consumers are voting for basic, low-tech tools instead of your idea (which has been around decades all ready). We all ready have the “iPhone of firearms”, and it is called the AR-15 design – it has been selling like hotcakes for the last decade in case you haven’t noticed. It is your gun that is the flip phone or Blackberry, bud.
Put out a product that firearms consumers want – rather than something that gun control advocates want us to want and trying to artificially social engineer some demand for it – and it’ll sell like the AR platform (and dozens of other highly successful firearms) has, too.
I’d say that their product is more like the Zune–overpriced, late to the party, and created to support a political goal that the market has not only rejected but actually punished brands for supporting.
I’m actually interested to see how quickly these get hacked by the same people who jailbreak or root their cellphones.
Smartguns only seem like a good idea to people who don’t buy guns. I’m not sure how they’re supposed to take gun owners by storm when the target market they’re selling to isn’t interested in buying.
Too much at risk for me to have a piece of life support equipment relying on computers. It already drives me nuts how much computers have taken over our vehicles and other methods of transportation. Until/unless there is a MASSIVE leap forward in technology, stuff like this is a pipe dream. I also suspect the anti’s will try to mandate these features because they know it’s unavailable, unreliable, and going to make guns significantly more expensive. It sells great to the voting public who know all they do about guns from watching TV/movies.
Let’s see - off the top of my head:
Jamming/Interference
Virus attacks
Hacking
Govt Control (using any of the above)
Software updates
Battery Life
Survivability under normal firing, much less during a life and death fight
We can’t yet get the electronics in a RDS to the point that they survive being mounted to a pistol slide. How the hell are we going to get computerized features and controls that do so?
Obviously the level of fail and potential for all manner of disaster for the user of this tech goes without saying. If they wanna sell that along side traditional guns, and some other idiot…I mean person, wants to be the beta tester for it in the real world, that’s fine by me. If it’s pushed as a replacement for traditional guns (which we all know the mere fact of the need to wear something on your wrist for it to work means it will not…) by law or other means, then we have a problem.
Per usual, a “smart gun” made by people who are not so smart…
Oh its about money & trying to get a state that can only purchase the handgun you produce. I would like to see who this companies investors are.
. New Jersey passed a hotly contested law in 2002 requiring that only smart guns be sold in the state within three years of a smart gun being sold anywhere in the country
So besides introducing a whole host of problems, at a very high price, what does this do? While you think about that, think about this. I don’t care if Im a dinosaur. I’ve had my lg flipphone since 2010.
I love these tech idiots who are so into “technology” but have no clue how to apply it in a profitable way. The market will decide and they will fail - Mega’s 2014 prediction of the year.
How about a real novel concept. A “smart” gun that stops homicidal halfatards intenent on killing innocents. How can we get this? Not stop you from defending yourself, your own, innocents, etc…
Because. You can’t have it both ways. In the end, the user decides course of action.
Good people do good things, bad people do bad things. Hell, give em a rock instead and you wil still get Cain and Able. All the smar tech won’t change human behavior.
