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SecularMotion

(7,981 posts)
Mon Jan 6, 2014, 02:04 PM Jan 2014

Is It Time To Put Chips In Guns? [View all]

There is an idea for a semiconductor application that has been kicked around for years, but has not yet found its market. It’s the notion of using RFID chips to prevent guns from being used by anyone except their owners.

If you look back over the past year alone you will find that a number of killings have resulted from the killer appropriating someone else’s gun. It’s not unusual for a killer to shoot a police officer with another officer’s gun, or even that officer’s own gun. The school shootings that are becoming increasingly frequent in the US are often committed by a child using a parent’s gun. Firearms stolen from homes and cars are often used in gang violence. If a gun would be useful only to its owner these deaths might be avoided.

Fellow Forbes blogger Larry Bell gives some interesting statistics from a Department of Justice survey of prison inmates in his post: Disarming Realities: As Gun Sales Soar, Gun Crimes Plummet. The survey found that 37% of inmates used a family member’s gun and another 40% obtained their weapon from an illegal source. Some of these crimes may have been avoided if firearms could be operated exclusively by their owners.

There are lots of ideas of how to prevent unauthorized gun use, and in fact there is even a Wikipedia page that describes a few of them. Of course, there’s the obvious solution of keeping guns in a safe. Gun safes do a lot to prevent theft or misappropriation by a family member. Some companies have worked out ways to add biometric sensors to weapons to prevent their unauthorized use. These are based on fingerprint recognition, grip recognition, or more exotic approaches. The trouble is: it takes time to positively identify biometric inputs, and those who buy a gun for safety worry that a delay might cost them their life.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jimhandy/2013/12/31/is-it-time-to-put-chips-in-guns/

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Is It Time To Put Chips In Guns? [View all] SecularMotion Jan 2014 OP
I prefer to put them in dips. Common Sense Party Jan 2014 #1
LOL. Ranchemp. Jan 2014 #2
Post removed Post removed Jan 2014 #3
It's a fair question: Why don't you discuss your own OPs? friendly_iconoclast Jan 2014 #6
Well, he did. See where he called a fellow DUer a "Stalker?" Eleanors38 Jan 2014 #37
Not stalking, don't flatter yourself. Ranchemp. Jan 2014 #20
...or as someone once said... discntnt_irny_srcsm Jan 2014 #34
Yeah. Straw Man Jan 2014 #4
No ileus Jan 2014 #5
What if I sale it? flamin lib Jan 2014 #12
RFID makes sense on three levels; flamin lib Jan 2014 #7
"It makes unauthorized use impossible..."until it's hacked friendly_iconoclast Jan 2014 #9
Okay, so in a confrontation with police an assailant takes the officer's flamin lib Jan 2014 #11
In that instance it would be helpful bossy22 Jan 2014 #13
It doesn't make sense on many levels bossy22 Jan 2014 #15
Just be honest, okay? flamin lib Jan 2014 #17
I would not oppose it in that case bossy22 Jan 2014 #18
Ya mean like fly by wire? Or drive by wire? flamin lib Jan 2014 #22
Again, I don't have an ideological problem with it bossy22 Jan 2014 #23
Up thread you commented that flamin lib Jan 2014 #27
You are more than free to work on it bossy22 Jan 2014 #28
"mandate it and work out the kinks later". Is it so unreasonable to be against this? flamin lib Jan 2014 #30
no its not bossy22 Jan 2014 #31
Thalidomide was not produced or prescribed in the US. flamin lib Jan 2014 #32
So a testing regime did its job? bossy22 Jan 2014 #35
Someone spent time coming up with a prototype. Eleanors38 Jan 2014 #38
Exactly bossy22 Jan 2014 #40
When the military and the police widely implement it, i'll consider it. AtheistCrusader Jan 2014 #8
One comment illustrates the mindset of the proponents: friendly_iconoclast Jan 2014 #10
So I have a concealed weapons permit and am out walking my dog with a five shot snub nosed ... spin Jan 2014 #25
It also illustrates the problem with our soundbite politics bossy22 Jan 2014 #41
It's not as simple as many believe bossy22 Jan 2014 #14
The technology is here now and functional. flamin lib Jan 2014 #16
that were true, several gun manufactures are gejohnston Jan 2014 #19
Yeah, I cited that up-thread. flamin lib Jan 2014 #24
go ahead, produce it, test it bossy22 Jan 2014 #26
It won't happen any time soon because flamin lib Jan 2014 #29
so maybe that should tell you something bossy22 Jan 2014 #33
This is getting really boring. I answer every objection yet you find flamin lib Jan 2014 #36
you didn't answer anything bossy22 Jan 2014 #39
in the laboratory bossy22 Jan 2014 #21
So what is your point of discussion here? Packerowner740 Jan 2014 #42
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