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: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 20 2016, @01:15PM
Right. Rifles and shot guns. For hunting. Not hand guns and automatics magazine fed military rifles. They also don't have concealed or open carry. What is so hard to understand about this?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 20 2016, @05:08PM
(Score: 2) by Bot on Thursday October 20 2016, @06:23PM
> The U.S. was founded to be different from the old country, not to emulate them.
At last! It's about time somebody stepped up to admit that such an experiment failed. Miserably.
(just trying to fit in with the trolleys in this thread)
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(Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday October 20 2016, @07:10PM
Then why are those idiots so bloody obsessed with my non-perfect grass?
If you want a perfect lawn, go the hell back to London! SoCal is not the place for you!
/rant