Safe Guns?

[RW]

So this 18 year-old kid - Kai Kloepfer is working at creating guns with fingerprint sensors on them that would only allow the person who has registered the gun to shoot it.  Do you think this is a viable means of "gun control" to solve the issue of accidental (and stolen gun) shootings?

[Leopardsocks]

There is ONLY one means of gun control.



No guns.



That notion has been around for decades...the military have been toying with the idea of biometric lockouts on military firearms, so that enemies cannot turn their own guns against them. If they haven't come up with a viable solution, I cannot see how this kid can make it work.

[RW]

It is said it won't work in a military application but what about a domestic application?

[Leopardsocks]

How is one distinguished from the other.



The technology is identical...only the application changes.



There is only ONE safe gun. That is the gun you do not possess.

[keeper]

After i quit hunting i sold all of my guns and let my F.A.C expire. Im fine with "no guns"

[RW]

How is one distinguished from the other.



The technology is identical...only the application changes.



There is only ONE safe gun. That is the gun you do not possess.

Let's get over the whole no gun thing mmmkay.  We both know Americans won't give up their guns for anything.



The application is different making the technology more viable in a domestic setting.  They talk about it in the video.

[Anonymous]

So this 18 year-old kid - Kai Kloepfer is working at creating guns with fingerprint sensors on them that would only allow the person who has registered the gun to shoot it.  Do you think this is a viable means of "gun control" to solve the issue of accidental (and stolen gun) shootings?

Not a word of a lie, my ex-bf had an almost identical idea.

[RW]

No way!

[Anonymous]

No way!

I'm dead serious RW.

[RW]

I believe you.  I've been told though that it isn't a new idea.

[Anonymous]

So this 18 year-old kid - Kai Kloepfer is working at creating guns with fingerprint sensors on them that would only allow the person who has registered the gun to shoot it.  Do you think this is a viable means of "gun control" to solve the issue of accidental (and stolen gun) shootings?

Not a word of a lie, my ex-bf had an almost identical idea.

That is incredible Shen Li..



He never pursued his idea?

[Odinson]

Finger gun is the worlds safest gun.

[Renee]

I believe you.  I've been told though that it isn't a new idea.

It's not a new idea. It's been being kicked around for use in firearms for at least the past decade. In fact I have a firearms bed safe that responds to my finger prints in order to open it. The major problem lies in reliability. A duty weapon that is carried on a daily basis is subject to a fair amount of abuse; making sure the technology needed to operate it remains undamaged is problematic. You are also adding an unpredictable element into the mix which can conceivably add a level of malfunction to the weapon. Eventually this kind of technology will become reality but it will only be useful when it becomes almost bullet-proof (no pun intended).

[Anonymous]

That is incredible Shen Li..



He never pursued his idea?

It wasn't identical, but similar to what RW posted. He never got a proper prototype going and kinda gave up on it when he realized other people had similar ideas.

[cc]

We can pass laws to keep guns from the good guys, we can create devices to make them safer for the good guys .... but we cannot keep fully operational guns from those who would use them for bad purposes



There is no device nor law that can keep criminals from getting fully operational guns on the black market