Apocrypha: Behind The Scenes April 10: Smart Guns and C&Rsenal
Added 2023-04-10 22:20:43 +0000 UTCMy past week was mostly occupied by a trip to visit the new "smart gun" company Biofire. They have a product that is pretty well thought-out and very interesting, but I'm curious to see how people react to it. There's a lot of instinctive antipathy to technology in firearms, especially biometric authentication tech. But we will find out next week...
I also had Othais and Mae from C&Rsenal stop by to visit yesterday. We had a great time out at the range playing with weird shotguns and hand traps. There is video from that as well, but it may not be out for a few months...
Comments
Cannot wait for the shotgun stuff
Paul Johnston
2023-04-14 09:44:30 +0000 UTCbet the visit from the se was fun.
Guido Schriewer
2023-04-11 20:01:34 +0000 UTCand "not suitable for everyone" in a weapon system, means "not suitable"... :)
Jeff Price
2023-04-11 19:53:41 +0000 UTCI am sorry for being so serious, but working inside the Beltway, is a stupid-fertile environment, the amount of stupid is just endless. If you give stupid a chance, it takes hold and grows...
Jeff Price
2023-04-11 15:24:42 +0000 UTCI think you are being generous to the control freaks. I think they let go of the mandate because it doesn't exist anyway. The existence of this technology will lead to mandates. Look at the ossified gun list in California, mandated forever... Stupid is the strongest force in the universe. It is everywhere all the time like entropy, always progressing.
Jeff Price
2023-04-11 15:07:40 +0000 UTCI understand the objections, and obviously it's not suitable for everyone - but this, very importantly, is no longer one of them. There is no legislative tripwire that this triggers.
Forgotten Weapons
2023-04-11 15:02:09 +0000 UTC...and with the legislative tripwires that this can trigger, it is a bad idea to pursue it.
Jeff Price
2023-04-11 14:51:17 +0000 UTCBut you have to know everyone who might ever come to your side "a moi legionnaire!" in advance... Well intentioned I am sure. But, a bad idea well implemented is still a bad idea...
Jeff Price
2023-04-11 14:50:32 +0000 UTCI was also skeptical, but I can't say anything for a few more days.
Forgotten Weapons
2023-04-11 14:46:44 +0000 UTCOn designs where multiple people can be enrolled in the gun, yes - you could include anyone you want.
Forgotten Weapons
2023-04-11 14:45:39 +0000 UTCWhat a waste of time. New Jersey is a lost shithole, like California. Really, F them. Smart guns are Not... If the gun only can be shot by me and I go down, can my wife or son pick it up and return fire? In Police or LEA use-cases, can a comrade pick up my weapon and return fire if their weapon goes down?
Jeff Price
2023-04-11 14:31:55 +0000 UTCI did a quick BioFire search. Apparently it is fingerprint recognition based. I think the fact that Apple has been there, done that, and moved on will kill that idea.
Robert N Ayres
2023-04-11 14:21:07 +0000 UTCThis can only be bad. Even if it is never perfected it will be used by the anti-gunners to further harass lawful gun owners. Remember Micro Stamping? Require guns to stamp a unique mark on all fired cartridge cases. Require manufacturers to maintain a file of fired cases for every gun they produce. Adds much to the cost to consumers with no apparent good. New York included a Micro Stamping provision in it's infamous SAFE Act. Crime has doubled since then. Trust me, anti gun lunatics will demand this on all guns made as soon as possible. Then just a short jump to banning all non-conforming guns.
Thomas Batha
2023-04-11 12:26:51 +0000 UTCYou can argue that rights in fact exist and that states shouldn't violate them, but people have been doing that all along and it is known by now to fall on deaf ears. It's better to argue that laws based on possession of something so easily made literally just rely on people abiding by the honour system and that there then is no use in passing further laws of this type. So laws requiring everyone to have smart guns aren't necessarily coming.
Stuart Morrow
2023-04-11 10:14:20 +0000 UTCNo, we're saying the way most governments implement gun control is fundamentally immoral and indefensible. Also, the Shinzo Heater requires no 3D printing, you could make a gun like that in the 1950s with a trip to just about any hardware store in the world.
Lance Thundercock
2023-04-11 09:26:14 +0000 UTCAre these the same people saying any gun laws are useless now because guns now exist everywhere that 3D printers do
Stuart Morrow
2023-04-11 08:25:03 +0000 UTCWhen I heard cross country road trip I started picturing Ian and Othias as Raoul Duke and Dr. Gonzo.
John R
2023-04-11 02:27:10 +0000 UTCI expect the blowback on any smart gun stuff will be intense, to say the least. So much so, that I'm not sure I would post it on YouTube for non-subscribers to see.
Larry Schwartz
2023-04-11 01:51:55 +0000 UTCWhen the police and military use them as service weapons, then and only then I might consider one.
Stephen Woods
2023-04-11 01:39:41 +0000 UTC
