More winners will be announced, the Foundation says, but some have asked that their names be withheld because of the controversy surrounding the issue.The technological innovative approach faces objections from both sides of the gun control argument. I'd imagine it partially threatens the relative safety of the status quo.
"All the grantees have been selected, but as you can imagine they are at varying degrees of comfort with public exposure," a representative for the Smart Tech Foundation told The Verge. "Some have asked to remain almost anonymous because of the negative backlash they may face. So we will be announcing grantees on a rolling basis in an effort to protect some innovators and highlight others." (read more)
Friday, September 12, 2014
"Winners of high-profile smart gun design challenge are afraid to come out publicly"
"The Foundation received more than 200 applications, and by June it had selected 15 winners. But so far, only one winner has been announced: 17-year-old Kai Kloepfer, who designed a fingerprint scanner that fits on the handle of a gun and requires user authentication in order to fire. Kloepfer was awarded $50,000, which was announced yesterday."
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A transparent attempt to increase cost to deter people from owning guns.
Guns, despite what the anti-gun people say, are already heavily regulated.
Yeah, wouldn't want to open these guys up to violence and threats from the love and peace people.
Turns out I was wrong when I thought a smart gun was a tiny little gun, like a smart car.
Murphy's Law: What can fail, will fail, and at the least opportune time.
KISS principle: Keep It Simple Stupid.
This entire effort to add complexity to firearms is nonsense....and frankly, bullshit of the first order. Anyone who has ever been in a fire fight will tell you that your finger prints can be easily degraded. Gun fighting is NOT similar to accessing a finance office doorway. Anyone who cannot handle a weapon safely and securely should just not handle weapons at all.
There was a story in the San Jose Mercury News back in the '70s about a woman who was killed when a pistol fell off of a closet shelf and discharged. The slug hit her and caused a fatal wound.
My brother who handled firearms frequently called his SAA a "5 shooter", because it was prudent to keep an empty chamber under the hammer.
So, when I started researching handguns I was not displeased to find that now there are built-in safeties, firing pin blocks, if you will, that prevent a pistol from firing unless the trigger is being pulled. I like that.
I don't like further meddling and government interference in the only thing that stands between us and outright tyranny.
Ari's right. This is how this plays out:
1. smart gun technology introduced;
2. smart gun technology pushed thru regulation and legislation;
3. smart guns required in all new gun purchases;
4. smart guns subsidized for poor people, exchanged for dumb guns;
5. dumb guns outlawed as RINOs buy into this "fair compromise";
6. smart guns turn out to have previously undisclosed "kill switch" which can be operated only by the government in the event of a "national emergency" or as needed for the sake of "public safety" and/or "the children."
Amartel hits it dead square in the nuts. If it looks like a Camel, Walks like a Camel, and smells like a Camel....
(see: Tents, Noses)
Off topic - sorry.
In Colorado, 524 Illegal immigrants were mistakenly given official driver's licenses with access to vote and receive state welfare benefits.
Now that the democrats have signed this into law, illegals are getting drivers licenses that are supposedly different from legal citizens.
This is what happens when people vote democrat.
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Can we shoot them?
Oh, my bad...
60-Grit .... only if you also nail all the witnesses. :-)
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