Smart gun

A firearm that gets its owner killed while trying to prevent authorized use. A smartgun was originally the military working on the idea of allowing guns to calculate range, windage, or control smart rounds (ammo) for the shooter. More common is referring to Smart/safe guns (two words); technology to prevent accidents, suicides, or having cops guns turned on them; making guns more "safe". Like making hammers that won't smash thumbs or drive nails. ℹ️ Info           ~ Aristotle Sabouni Created: 2022-05-02

There have been ideas about how technology can improve guns since authors wrote about the future (so probably back into the 1600's). The latest round was created by gun control advocates in the 1990's. But first, let's clarify some definitions. There are smartguns and smart-guns (safe guns), which are completely different things:

• Smartguns (one word) was military efforts to make guns smarter for military applications; guns combined with electronics to allow longer range adjustments (correct for windage/drop/earths rotation making long-range sniper shooting easier), guided or exploding bullets (to cause shrapnel to go around corners), and fire control to reduce friendly fire incidents. Ways to use technology to make guns more effective in war. We're not talking about any of those things.
• Smart guns (two words or hyphenated, or often called safe guns) are weapons designed by politicians who know nothing about guns, but want more "safety features" added to guns, to reduce things like nearly non-existent accidents, or the more infrequent cases where gun is fired by the non-authorized user, or other efforts to pretend to be helpin. We'll be talking exclusively about the this second definition. Because that's what the political discourse is about: politicians designing guns.

Gun controllers invented this canard that we needed an NTSB (Politically Controlled Gun Safety Advisory Board) to make guns less effective at shooting people, but more "safe", and they could help us, by reducing these non-problems from happening:

1. reduce accidental shootings
2. reduce suicides
3. prevent a cop/others gun from being turned against them
4. eliminates the value in cases of theft

None of these are statistically or logically valid arguments, and the technologies wouldn't help much, and make some things worse. Which is why nobody has commercially produced one, because they are a solution looking for a problem, and gun advocates blocked them because New Jersey has a law that said once one is available, all guns will require those features.

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Terms We need to agree on what terms mean. This used to be easy, before SJW's/Marxists started Orwelling our language.

Guns Guns are a tool. Gun prohibition is like the prohibition on drugs, alcohol or crime.

Smart guns are dumb "Smart guns" (safe guns) prevent both intended and unintended use of a gun, resulting in virtually no interest.

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• Wikipedia:Smart_gun

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