Bloomberg blames NRA, hysteria on lack of "smart" guns

Posted by $ blarman 6 years ago to Business
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There are pieces to the article which are accurate, including the New Jersey law's crippling behavior and the failure rates of various technologies, but the overall tone ignores the fundamental issue: is self defense a right the government "shall not infringe" upon?


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  • Posted by $ 25n56il4 6 years ago
    I have to ask. What is a 'military style' gun? Georgie Patton carried a .45 cal. Is that 'military style?' He shot it a few times. I have a .22 rifle that looks like an AR 15 and has a 15 bullet capacity cartridge thingy! But it is a Rueger and definitely listed as a .22!!!
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  • Posted by Arthgallo 6 years ago
    yup. Just what I want, a USB compatible handgun that requires my apple watch to be on my wrist (LOL). So would it run only on solar batteries as the power source? Would we call it the Glock model "absurd"?
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  • Posted by freedomforall 6 years ago
    This is a technology that would benefit only the state. The real reason that it isn't interesting to gun companies is the customers are smart enough to know that as soon as such technology exists, the government will make any gun without the technology illegal. That would effectively eliminate the real purpose of the 2nd amendment: to give the people unrestricted, "uninfringed" ownership and access to weapons that can be used to stop dictatorial government from stealing all the other rights of the people.
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  • Posted by mminnick 6 years ago
    Self defense is a right the government, any government must not, repeat, must not infringe upon. Once a citizen looses the right to defend themselves they have lost everything because everything can and will be taken away from them either by the biggest bully on the blocvk or the government itself.
    AS far as smart gun technology goes parts of the technology have been proven to work "most of the time". Note not all of the time. If it doesn't work all of the time and the failure more is no "service" then it is useless even dangerous.
    If the smart technology is electronic (and it all is) sooner or later a jammer that prevents it proer working will be developed rendering all weapons (projectile, laser or other, useless. You might as well go back to knives, clubs and swords. they can't be jammed.
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