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German firearms manufacturer Armatix LLC is planning to release its second smart gun in the U.S. next year after sales of its first model -- the .22 caliber iP1 -- were quashed by pressure from some gun owners and gun rights advocates who saw it as a threat to Second Amendment freedoms.
Unlike the iP1, which used RFID technology, the new iP9 9mm semi-automatic pistol will have a fingerprint reader. The iP9 will be available in mid-2017, according to Wolfgang Tweraser, CEO and president of Amratix LLC.
How long before the smart guns go all WOPR?
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(Score: 2, Informative) by tftp on Thursday October 20 2016, @05:26AM
Considering the reliability of every fingerprint reader I have ever used is spotty at best
It's perfectly reliable -- as long as you are not wearing gloves, and your hands are clean, and the fingerprint reader is clean, and the battery is charged, and your fingers have no cuts, abrasions or other defects that cause a misread, and it's not raining, and...
Might be OK for plinking, though. But why to buy a defective tool if you can get the real one for less? I wonder how many sales these guys will register. Their customers must be a rare combination of (a) people who are afraid of guns, and (b) people who want a gun. How many such people exist?
Personally, I do not expect to ever use a gun for self-defense. However nobody expects the unexpected - like Katrina, like riots in Ferguson, like those future events that we know nothing about yet. I don't think at that time you'd want to worry about fresh batteries or about connecting a laptop via USB to rescan your injured hands. When Sandy hit, people were sitting without power for many days while looters and other criminals [huffingtonpost.com] roamed free.
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Thursday October 20 2016, @06:58AM
Indeed. It's like seatbelts and airbags.
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(Score: 1) by ewk on Thursday October 20 2016, @07:57AM
Nope... those are mandatory by law.
Guns aren't.
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 20 2016, @11:33AM
That's the connundrum with so-called "smart guns": a cascade of laws will activate when such a device is ready for sale, as outlined in a tech crunch article [techcrunch.com].
The only sort of "smart gun" anyone in their right mind should even consider for purchase is one adopted voluntarily by police and military forces. Cops in particular have been very vocal about NOT wanting to carry or use such "smart guns", which is quite telling.
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Thursday October 20 2016, @10:04PM
You never walk out the door expecting to need your seatbelt, airbag, motorcycle helmet, or carry gun that day. On the hopefully very rare instance that you find you need it, you'd better have it. Oh, and helmets are optional here, but I still use one.
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(Score: 2) by Bot on Thursday October 20 2016, @06:16PM
> It's perfectly reliable -- as long as you are not wearing gloves, and your hands are clean, and the fingerprint reader is clean, and the battery is charged, and your fingers have no cuts, abrasions or other defects that cause a misread, and it's not raining, and...
... and your hands are sweating, like when you feel somehow in danger.
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