‘Smart’ Firearm Draws Wrath of the Gun Lobby
Then someone snapped pictures of the address where she has a P.O. box and put those online, too. In a crude, cartoonish scrawl, this person drew an arrow to the blurred image of a woman passing through the photo frame. Belinda? the person wrote. Is that you?
Her offense? Trying to market and sell a new .22-caliber handgun that uses a radio frequency-enabled stopwatch to identify the authorized user so no one else can fire it. Ms. Padilla and the manufacturer she works for, Armatix, intended to make the weapon the first smart gun for sale in the United States.
But shortly after Armatix went public with its plans to start selling in Southern California, Ms. Padilla, a fast-talking, hard-charging Beverly Hills businesswoman who leads the companys fledgling American division, encountered the same uproar that has stopped gun control advocates, Congress, President Obama and lawmakers across the country as they seek to pass tougher laws and promote new technologies they contend will lead to fewer firearms deaths.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/28/us/politics/smart-firearm-draws-wrath-of-the-gun-lobby.html?hpw&rref=us&_r=0
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)something they don't like.
liberal N proud
(60,335 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)and millions of gun toting yahoos, are fearful this safety feature might keep some innocent kid from getting killed.
mikeysnot
(4,757 posts)and have been conditioned to react negatively to any successful gun laws like Chicago's.
Mr_Rogers
(43 posts)mikeysnot
(4,757 posts)Mr_Rogers
(43 posts)... mostly due to the fact that only the criminal portion of society had access to firearms and that led to a very high murder rate.
There are arguments against it as well but I was interested in what you thought since their murder rate is so high and the point isn't immediately obvious.
mikeysnot
(4,757 posts)because it has never been done on a federal level. The criminal "law abiding" elements in the gun proliferation crowd and the gun manufacturers make sure the streets are flooded with cheap easily accessible guns.
Our laws were simple, no hand guns in the city limits, it worked for 25 years. The lame argument that the laws didn't work because we had gun deaths is moot. By the gun proliferation own point that no gun laws or concealed carry laws work to stop crimes proves this.
take the three instances in Georgia...
This fucking "moran"..
http://aattp.org/gun-nut-causes-panic-at-little-league-game-look-i-got-a-gun-and-theres-nothing-you-can-do-about-it-video/
And this fucking asshole coward
http://aattp.org/gunman-dead-at-least-6-wounded-in-shooting-at-fed-ex-facility-in-georgia/
More assholes in TX....
http://aattp.org/open-carry-texas-terrorizes-concerned-911-callers-threatens-to-release-their-private-info-video/
If guns kept us safe we would be the safest country in the world. We are not. We have the most guns in private citizens hands and the most gun deaths. Do the math.
The gun manufacturers are laughing all the way to the bank on idiots phobias.
The Blue Flower
(5,442 posts)This is so disgusting.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)3catwoman3
(24,006 posts)Excellent point!
Maybe the inventor should try to market her idea as an "anti-liberal lock" - "If the damn libruls come for your gunz, it won't do them any good because ONLY YOU can fire your weapon." People lie in advertising and marketing all the time.
It would be embraced with alacrity and enthusiasm.
quadrature
(2,049 posts)kinda figures.
http://www.armatix.com/Contact.87.0.html?&L=1