to get meds out of the Pyxis machine, you put your finger over a little reader, it reads your print and the drawer opens.

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Kid Inventions - Inventions for School

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Kid Invention - The Safety Fingerprint Gun




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The Safety Fingerprint Gun
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This gun will help prevent criminal acts and careless mistakes. When you buy the gun, you must fill out an identification card and register your fingerprints. This information is stored in the gun's memory chip. To operate the gun, you must place your thumb over a scanner on the handle of the gun before you can shoot it. If someone else tries to operate the gun, and the fingerprints don't match, it will lock and not shoot.
Created by young inventors Mike Snead, Tara Lynch, Kati Merrick, Jami Ralph, Rhonda McDowell, Patti Ann Betts, Jenna Tingle, Traci Peters, April Higgins, John Cahall

Laurel Middle School - Contact teacher: Regina Royer

(Sorry if there's some geekish fact-vomiting here; I worked on a similar system in grad school.)

It's not "there" yet but it could be production ready in a couple of years. There's a lot of questions still about disableability and balancing Type I vs. Type II errors (you want neither to allow an unauthorized user nor forbid an authorized user, but in any discriminator algorithm there has to be some trade-off there).

But, that said, expect this to be available at least on high-end weapons somewhat soon-ish. Once it's out there we can look at mandating it on new guns.

I believe it could be ready sooner than later . ?

it would be defeated in short order

No reason for NRA to oppose this idea, but they will.

The concept sounds similar to what they did to his pistol. I know James Bond isn't the most realistic franchise out there, but this aspect seems plausible.