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| At the Consumer Electronics Show, which just ended in Las Vegas, a vendor wanted to demonstrate | |
| his smart gun law, saying it answers President Obama's call for a smart gun. | |
| But the Consumer Electronics Show wouldn't allow him to bring an unloaded gun into the show. | |
| Not even an imitation gun. | |
| Not even for Obama. | |
| And there's an important lesson in that. | |
| They really don't want better tech. | |
| They just want to get rid of guns out of fear and ignorance. | |
| We're going to look at why smart guns are a dumb idea. | |
| But first, consider the gun expert the Obama administration has enlisted as a smart gun salesman. | |
| You know the single most consequential thing you can do and have no impact on the Second Amendment? | |
| Buy a smart gun. | |
| Remember the last time Biden gave us gun advice? | |
| She's asking if a ban goes into effect on certain kinds of weapons and high-capacity magazines. | |
| And what's your name? | |
| Kate. | |
| Kate, if you want to protect yourself, get a double-barrel shotgun. | |
| I have the shells of a 12-gauge shotgun, and I promise you, as I told my wife, we live in an area that's wooded and somewhat secluded. | |
| I said, Jill, if there's ever a problem, just walk out on the balcony here, or walk out, put that double-barrel shotgun, and fire two blasts. | |
| You don't need an AR-15. | |
| It's harder to aim. | |
| It's harder to use. | |
| And in fact, you don't need 30 rounds to protect yourself. | |
| Buy a shotgun. | |
| Buy a shotgun. | |
| Buy a smart gun. | |
| Now he's back, with more idiotic advice. | |
| How does that make sense? | |
| What possible sense does that make? | |
| To help push the idea of smart guns, mainstream media, from Fox News to CNN, turns to James Bond as an example. | |
| What's a PPKS 9mm short? | |
| There's a microdermal sensor in the grip. | |
| It's been coded to your palm print so only you can fire it. | |
| While having a gun that only authorized users can fire might sound like a great idea, Bond has lots of gadgets that, in the real world, would be impractical and prohibitively expensive to build. | |
| But Obama says the tech hurdles can be overcome. | |
| If you are a gun owner, I would think that you would at least want a choice. | |
| They don't want to be in a situation where, oh no, someone's coming through my front door, I've got to reboot my gun. | |
| It's the reliability, stupid. | |
| Adding biometric or RFID sensors to a gun means adding multiple layers of new complicated technology that can go wrong. | |
| The blinking red LED light means that you have 33% battery life left and you must change the batteries. | |
| There weren't batteries that were small enough, there weren't chips that were reliable enough, there wasn't biometric technology that was good enough to recognize fingerprint IDs. | |
| Guns are finely honed mechanical devices. | |
| They're rugged. | |
| They can withstand rough use. | |
| Smart guns will add electronics that can fail, can break, that will need a charged power source. | |
| And most importantly, they can be disabled by criminals or governments. | |
| This vulnerability and others will come from the software, which will also have bugs that will get worse with software updates, just like your phone. | |
| And there are other concerns. | |
| Any wireless coupling can decouple, it can have interference, or it can be hacked. | |
| And will you grip a biometric handle in the same way when you're under stress or under combat? | |
| So far there's only been one attempt at a smart gun. | |
| The IP-1 from the German manufacturer Armitix. | |
| The gun is implanted with an electronic chip that allows it to be fired only if the shooter is wearing a companion watch into which a PIN number has been entered. | |
| It was only offered in a .22 caliber, but it cost $1,800, five times the cost of other .22s, and not offered in a self-defense caliber. | |
| But it had other problems. | |
| It took 7 push-button commands and 12 seconds before it could be fired. | |
| And it had 3 or 4 misfires per 11-round magazine, repeatedly. | |
| So, it's not good, it's not fast, it's not cheap, and it's laughably unreliable. | |
| Not even the gun grabbers in New Jersey could call it smart with a straight face. | |
| And that's important, because New Jersey has passed a law that once a smart gun exists in the market, only smart guns will be allowed to be sold in New Jersey. | |
| This is why gun users threatened a boycott of manufacturers like Smith & Wesson when they announced plans to work on a smart gun. | |
| I don't exactly understand this and maybe there will be somebody in the audience who explains it to me. | |
| Back in 1997, the CEO of Colt said, you know, we can design or starting to develop guns where you can only use it if you've got a chip. | |
| A boycott was called against them and they had to back off of developing that technology. | |
| The same with Smith & Wesson. | |
| Smith & Wesson responded to the boycott by cancelling smart gun research and firing the CEO that proposed it. | |
| So users are not asking for smart guns. | |
| As a matter of fact, they strongly don't want them. | |
| So what does Obama do? | |
| He will use his unlimited Federal Reserves to build one and shove it down our throats. | |
| Obama likes to compare smart guns to cell phones. | |
| I didn't bring my cell phone with me, but my cell phone like yours, I just put my thumb print on. | |
| Well, why can't you do that for a gun? | |
| The cell phone analogy goes beyond biometric locks. | |
| The government has the capability to shut down all cell phones in an area, or selectively turn off their cameras, although they haven't used that capability yet. | |
| And they want the ability to track and disable your gun, even if it still works with all the added technology bells and whistles. | |
| If there's an app that can help us find a missing tablet, if we can do it for your iPad, there's no reason we can't do it with a stolen gun. | |
| Here's the bottom line. | |
| If you let someone get close enough to take your gun away, you're not doing it right. | |
| If you let children get access to your guns, you're not doing it right. | |
| We need smart people who control their guns, not smart guns controlled by government. | |
| We need better training and education, not unaffordable, unreliable weapons that can be disabled by the government. | |
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