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Bad idea: "smart guns"

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  • For Cysko (I recall you being for these, right? - correct me if my memory sucks)

    Here's one of the many reasons why I'm against smart guns.

    http://thenextweb.com/gadgets/2015/07/29/i-shot-the-sheriff-my-hacked-rifle-shot-the-deputy/

    Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck. -Don Shula

  • Smart guns don't necessarily have to be self targeting but this could be a problem. Still, I'd be willing to try the magnetic ring type and such.

    Early man walked away as modern man took control. Their minds weren't all the same and to conquer was their goal. So He built his great empires and he slaughtered his own kind, and he died a confused man and killed himself in his own mind...

  • anything that high tech can be hacked by high tech.

    And the magnetic ring - you live near a power station. Oops, your ring doesn't work. Or,

    maybe the opposite - the power station overlays the magnetic ring functionality,

    and the gun always fires regardless.

    I used to walk to a factory floor to have interviews with people on new software projects....

    and a computer disk would get fried, if I walked up to a machine running too close, to talk

    to somebody.

    A terrorist could use a electromagnetic field to rely on ccw and police magnetic ring thingie guns from operating.

    Very bad. Magnetic rings would wreak havoc on cell phones.

    Whatever. A bad idea - way too expensive anyways.

  • Fair enough.

    One of the reasons Glock's are so popular is simplicity. Simple to load, simple to fire, simple to take down, simple to clean, simple to repair. Because of this, people often associate their reliability with simplicity. Not sure anyone wants a "404 error " message in a gun especially if it's used as a self defense gun.

    Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck. -Don Shula

  • Magnets don't actually harm your cell phone. I know this because I have had very powerful rare earth magnets come in contact with my phone with no damage

    Early man walked away as modern man took control. Their minds weren't all the same and to conquer was their goal. So He built his great empires and he slaughtered his own kind, and he died a confused man and killed himself in his own mind...

  • All technology can be exploited. I don't see that as a reason to shun it. Especially if it can reduce gun violence down the road. Identifying exploits like these help to redesign and improve the security of the system.

    Ja.brill Peppers - Cleveland Brown OldBrownsFan, on 02 Jun 2017 - 5:09PM said: "No you are not the work of the devil but you are deceived by the devil." Who's got it better than us? Nooooobody!

  • All technology can be exploited. I don't see that as a reason to shun it Woody

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    But it is a reason to be careful what you adopt. Far too much technology

    can be overridden and rendered useless by other technology.

    Like radio/radar jamming. If the technology isn't foolproof and hackproof, most folks

    will have nothing to do with it. They are already recalling a line of cars because they

    have been shown to be hacked. Ever use a gps that goes off the deep end, and says

    you are nearing your destination, when you obviously a mile away?

    Just because it is technology and for a good cause, doesn't mean it should be adopted.

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