Gun Owners of America lied about Smart Gun/wrist band technology.

Chris Hayes had a feeling Gun Owners of America's Larry Pratt was handing him a line of bullshit. It's funny members of this group don't feel like they too might also be dupes of this con artist:

We fact-checked Larry Pratt, head of the Gun Owners of America, making his favorite claim about the supposed “failure rate” of the smart gun technology we reported on.

Dumb Guns are for Dumber Gun Owners...

Gun nuts are hypocrites. They don't want people to have a gun, a specific kind of gun that is. Oh, but tell them an assault weapon or large magazine should be banned...you're against freedom.

My conservative friend in Milwaukee called when All In with Chris Hayes featured the following story about "smart guns." Normally sane about gun regs and education, he hates the idea. Funny, I'd own a gun if it were smart and only worked for the assigned user.

You guessed it, conservative paranoia overrides intelligence and reason again. It looks like smart guns might just be smarter than dumb gun owners.

No smart responsible gun owner would oppose owning any kind of gun, right? It might even get people like me to break down an buy one. It's my constitutional right to own even a smart gun.

Here's Chris Hayes:


But the gun seller above received death threats for even thinking about selling smart guns.



Want to know about other smart gun technologies? Click here and here for a report.

New WiFi Rifle Streams Video, Shoots when Pointed in the Right Direction.

Killing people with one shot, first time, is about to become the new standard for gun goons, if the following rifle's technology catches on. NPR:

A new rifle goes on sale on Wednesday, and it's not like any other. It uses lasers and computers to make shooters very accurate. A startup gun company in Texas developed the rifle, which is so effective some in the industry say it should not be sold to the public.

It's called the TrackingPoint rifle. On a firing range just outside Austin in the city of Liberty Hill, a novice shooter holds one and takes aim at a target 500 yards away. Normally it takes years of practice to hit something at that distance. But this shooter nails it on the first try.

The rifle's scope features a sophisticated color graphics display. The shooter locks a laser on the target by pushing a small button by the trigger. It's like a video game. But here's where it's different: You pull the trigger but the gun decides when to shoot. It only fires when the weapon has been pointed in exactly the right place, taking into account dozens of variables, including wind, shake and distance to the target.

The rifle has a built-in laser rangefinder, a ballistics computer and a WiFi transmitter to stream live video and audio to a nearby iPad. Every shot is recorded so it can be replayed, or posted to YouTube or Facebook.

Smart Guns? Gun Nuts Oppose anything smarter than them…

Joe Biden is looking at everything, including 'smart guns', technology that’s been around awhile, but not marketed or pushed by the gun industry.

Newsmax: Various techniques such as fingerprint recognition or the wearing of a magnetic ring would prevent anyone other than a weapon's registered owner from firing it. The National Rifle Association and other groups have come out against smart guns.

Think about it; the gun industry is giving up billions of dollars by ignoring what every other industry has latched onto, “new and improved.” Why wouldn't a gun owner want to keep anyone else from using their guns?

And it sounds extremely constitutional. In the latest Bond movie, James uses a biometric gun (first above picture): 

One project: the New Jersey Institute of Technology's (NJIT) Dynamic Grip Recognition technology. They received $2M about seven years ago to develop a gun with a biometric locking mechanism that will only work with one owner. The main idea is that the gun's handle would be outfitted with 32 pressure sensors to record your unique holding pattern.