Is It Time To Put Chips In Guns?

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25. So I have a concealed weapons permit and am out walking my dog with a five shot snub nosed ...

revolver in my pants pocket.

I walk by a school with an entrance that is not 500 feet from the sidewalk that I am on. (Five hundred feet is the length of one and two thirds football fields. Some schools have an entrance that is even within the 50 foot suggestion.)

Alarms are set off, the school goes into lockdown and the police are summoned. Sounds a bit extreme to me.

The bank next door to me has a "No guns" sign on its door and you are supposedly scanned when you enter and if you are carrying a large metal object, the inner door at the entrance will not open. That is probably sufficient and effective. (I don't have an account with this bank but instead drive two blocks up the street to a bank that doesn't have a "No-Guns" sign on its door.)

Estimates are that over 300,000,000 firearms are in civilian hands in our nation, none of which have RFID chips inside. It would be politically impossible to pass legislation that all these firearms have to be modified for RFID technology. Any criminal or mad man who was not mechanically inclined enough to disable the RFID chip would simply obtain a used firearm without the RFID technology.

Also firearms are not the best environment for delicate electronics.

Firearms Maintenance

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Wear Factors

When you discharge a firearm on a limited basis the impact on the internal and external parts is not all that severe. In reality, the wear and tear on a firearm is cumulative in nature but can be accelerated when you discharge a firearm on a regular or sustained basis, especially over a period of time. The caliber of the firearm can also impact the level of wear on the internal and external moving and stationary parts—meaning that if you buy or use a handgun chambered in a substantial caliber and you discharge that firearm on a regular basis, it will eventually require more maintenance than if the same firearm is hardly used.

The quality and the type of construction can certainly impact the durability of firearms. Firearms that are manufactured using the highest quality parts and are assembled to the highest standards imaginable will generally hold up to regular or even excessive use better than a firearm of lesser quality. True of any handgun, revolvers are a bit different because a lot depends on how they are constructed.

Wheel Guns

A revolver that is manufactured in carbon or stainless steel will generally be able to fire a steady diet of high- velocity “service” ammunition longer than a lightweight revolver that is manufactured with alloy parts. This is one reason why folks tend to only fire enough ammunition through a lightweight revolver to make sure it works properly and to see how it shoots. The fact that lightweight revolvers produce more felt recoil is another reason why these types of handguns are carried more than they tend to be discharged in training sessions.
http://www.personaldefenseworld.com/2012/10/firearms-maintenance/

I like to target practice with all of my carry weapons including my light weight snub nosed revolver that I carry. I have probably fired several thousand rounds through my S&W Model 642 .38+P and it still is as accurate and reliable as the day I bought it twenty three years ago. Would an RFID chip hold up to the stresses I have placed on this handgun and still be reliable?