Possible partial gun control solution, although a futuristic one.

[Purrfessor]

Schools have the ability now to block student access to websites they deem have no educational value. In the future, why not mandate that guns be manufactured with firing pins activated electronically, by way of a wireless signal.

This should allow schools and any other businesses, as well as homeowners who choose not to own guns, to send out a blanket signal that would block a gun's ability to activate the firing mechanism, thereby rendering guns inactive within that domain.

[customerserviceguy]

1. Any radio signal can be blocked

Frankly, the metal in a weapon is more than enough to do just that. Even in nonmetal weapons, I would imagine that a simple wrap of aluminum foil would do.

I cannot possibly see such a thing working, but I would like to see something of that nature that blocks jerkwads from texting during a movie I'm trying to watch in a theater.

[JVS]

2. So if I were one of these homeowners I could carry my transmitter around and mug people/rob stores..

with the secure knowledge that I won't get shot?