Smart' pistols headed to US market

**pens87pgh** · January 17th, 2022, 05:08 PM

Originally Posted by Brick

I guarantee if batteries and electronics are involved the pistol will fail and at the worst possible moment! I will accept their potential use ONLY after 5 years of exclusive use by: Secret Service (esp. the protection details), FBI, Capitol Police Department, PA State Police, NY State Police, California State Police and the city PDs of NY, NOLA, Chicago, Philthydelphia, Camden, NJ and Boston.

I'm with Jen on this one. You're adding failure points to something that you need to be functional in a high-stress situation where you *maybe* have seconds to react. I'll never own one of these.

**tlnzz1** · January 17th, 2022, 06:15 PM

So they design something for a market that doesn't exist. Sounds like a great business plan, --- to fail .

**Bang** · January 17th, 2022, 06:45 PM

A gun designed to fire for only a select few has the potential of costing lives in unforeseen circumstances involving others.

As for non-existent market, I think PRNJ has created a future market. When all other options are eliminated, it will be the sole source of gun ownership.

It may have an unexpected, ironic result....very safe guns (as viewed by the courts) may force PRNJ to ease up on its unconstitutional laws.

**MrBear13** · January 18th, 2022, 12:30 PM

Just wait until OEMs capitalize on the technology and program their firearms to only work with OEM accessories.

"Komrade, is that an ETS magazine in your Glock 19? Access denied"

**Walleye Hunter** · January 18th, 2022, 12:41 PM

My pistols are already smart, they know who to shoot and who not to.

**S&W19** · January 18th, 2022, 07:47 PM

Wait until the government starts installing software that with the flick of a switch makes the guns inoperable.

**R.A.D.** · January 18th, 2022, 08:09 PM

a smart gun is one controlled by a smart owner...

these things are so great? give them to cops and the armed forces first... see how THAT goes over

**Bang** · January 18th, 2022, 10:38 PM

It was on tonight's TV news. The inventor is in Radnor. I think he set up a Glock 17 requiring a pass code via small buttons, and a fingerprint scanner/reader. It is expected to be on the market in 2023.

https://6abc.com/smart-gun-guns-lode...logy/11484192/

Once the gun is available, PRNJ is perched to stop any non-smart gun from coming into the state.

Edited to correct: In 2019 NJ repealed the requirement that its dealers sell smart guns, because the law had unexpected consequences...ironically....it was actually preventing the marketing of a smart gun. No one wanted to be the one who caused the collapse of PRNJ citizens' right to bear (reliable) arms. So far, the fire-prevention systems have been shown to be hackable and defeatable, not to mention battery-operated electronics failure possibilities.