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posted by janrinok on Thursday October 20 2016, @03:08AM   Printer-friendly

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: 1, Flamebait) by aristarchus on Thursday October 20 2016, @05:50AM

    by aristarchus (2645) on Thursday October 20 2016, @05:50AM (#416494) Journal

    Yes, I was vaguely aware. I also know that Swedes are not gun crazy 2nd amendment worshiping death eaters like Americans are. I don't think that Swedes, being the eminently reasonable people they are (not like Norwegians at all! ), would have any use for a feature on a smart gun that would allow one to shoot off one's own hand. Or anyone else's hand, for that matter. Only in America.

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