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?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 20 2016, @11:16AM
In the hopes that some will choose to self-educate, "the judgement" referred to is District of Columbia vs Heller [cornell.edu].
As an aside, I note that when the USSC "makes a decision", it has no bearing on the details of reality. Compare and contrast the above with National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius [cornell.edu] aka the Obamacare case, where the majority in effect declared "water is not wet". Sorry, boys, trying to bury a finding that the Constitution says the fedgov can levy a direct tax in proportion to the census while trying to levy a direct tax without proportion to the census is what the common people term "a lie".
With a seemingly insane USSC (further evidence: Dred Scott vs Sandford aka "black-skinned people aren't human"; Wickard vs Filburn aka "up is down"), what's a peaceable person to do? They can start by recognizing the truism that: if I can't do a given thing to another person, neither can I delegate authority for that same thing to any government - if a government person does it anyway, it is literally a criminal act equal to a mugging, kidnapping, etc.