New Smart Gun Coming to Market

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From the WSJ.

The First Smart Gun Is Finally Coming to Market. Will Anyone Buy It?
Gun makers have been working for decades on a weapon that can only be fired by an authorized user

By Zusha Elinson
July 27, 2023 8:00 am ET

Some excerpts:

The new weapon is the Colorado startup Biofire’s 9mm Smart Gun, which can only be fired if it recognizes an authorized user with a fingerprint reader on the grip or a facial recognition camera on the back.

The Biofire Smart Gun costs $1,499. Similar handguns without high-tech features typically cost between $400 and $800.

Biofire founder Kai Kloepfer, 26, has been working on the technology since he was a teenager. He said he had built the fingerprint and facial-recognition systems so that if one function doesn’t work because a person’s hands are wet or the person’s face isn’t yet in view, the other will.

Kloepfer said thousands of people had placed preorders for the Smart Gun, which is only available online, but declined to give a specific number. During a media demonstration earlier this year, the Biofire gun malfunctioned. Kloepfer said the weapon jammed—but there were no issues with its fingerprint or facial- recognition systems.

Kloepfer said he wasn’t a fan of smart-gun mandates, which some gun-control supporters have pushed in an effort to spur sales. Cooperating with such efforts could alienate potential Biofire customers who support gun rights.

New Jersey has a law, opposed by Second Amendment groups, mandating that all stores offer a smart gun for sale once one hits the market. Kloepfer said he wouldn’t submit the Biofire Smart Gun to the state’s Personalized Handgun Authorization Commission, which would make the law go into effect. “We’ve taken a very strong anti-mandate stance for smart guns,” he said. “I firmly believe that this has to be a choice.”


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[father-of-five]

I suspect that New Jersey will find a way to ban all all guns but smart guns. Unless there is another reason New Jersey has such an obsession for them...

[Delkal]

I suspect that New Jersey will find a way to ban all all guns but smart guns. Unless there is another reason New Jersey has such an obsession for them...

The NJ law said once a smart gun becomes available all dealers have to stock at least one. So 461 FFLs x $1500 = $691,500 in mandatory sales. I believe other states also have this provision so this company is going to have a nice payday.

[father-of-five]

The NJ law said once a smart gun becomes available all dealers have to stock at least one. So 461 FFLs x $1500 = $691,500 in mandatory sales. I believe other states also have this provision so this company is going to have a nice payday.

Yes. New Jersey actually made that a law already.

[streaker69]

The police and all over law enforcement agencies should be required to use this first. That way, their weapon cannot be taken off of them and used against them. Plus, when they leave one on the toilet at Dunkin' no one else will be able to use it. It can be renamed to The Lawgiver II.

[steve_010]

Next up is a subscription based gun. Make the monthly payment or get locked out.

[Sparks]

Don't give them ideas.

[Carson]

The police and all over law enforcement agencies should be required to use this first. That way, their weapon cannot be taken off of them and used against them. Plus, when they leave one on the toilet at Dunkin' no one else will be able to use it. It can be renamed to The Lawgiver II.

But then how will I be able to borrow my partners gun when I run out of bullits while firing at a stray dog ?

No self respecting copper uses the toilet at a Dunkin Donuts. Urinal maybe. Donuts absolutely. But no number 2 at DD.

[father-of-five]

Next up is a subscription based gun. Make the monthly payment or get locked out.

And then comes ransomware!

[Coops]

At least ten years too late to claim the "first" smart gun.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/lat...ucing-18715405
James bond inspired gun uses a watch or a ring with a chip that allows only the wearer to use it.
Biometrics are notoriously bad. Fingerprint or facial recognition is too slow.