NYC Pols Push for "Smart Guns"

[actaeon277]

No. She knows what she's doing. She is playing to the home crowd. Plain and simple.

She's still acting as if saying something makes it come true.

 

[IndyDave1776]

I recommend a law requiring smart politicians (which will require either retiring or retrofitting with new working brains approximately 95% of those in positions of public trust).

 

[spec4]

Isn't she the kook who couldn't tell Tucker Carlson what a shroud was?

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

I recommend a law requiring smart politicians (which will require either retiring or retrofitting with new working brains approximately 95% of those in positions of public trust).

Welcome back! Where have you been?

 

[KellyinAvon]

I recommend a law requiring smart politicians (which will require either retiring or retrofitting with new working brains approximately 95% of those in positions of public trust).

I'd settle for "has basic understanding of the subject". That ain't happenin either.

 

[KellyinAvon]

Isn't she the kook who couldn't tell Tucker Carlson what a shroud was?

I may look for some OD green barrel shrouds. I bet they make my AR fully automatic and I'll never need to reload again. I bet I'll need to get a full-auto clipazine too.

 

[Leadeye]

Somebody who sells this technology made a deal with a dc law/lobby firm who has connections with carol's machine. You'll always go further with a product and a check to dc, than a product alone.

Always follow the money

 

[Phase2]

https://maloney.house.gov/media-cen...islation-to-reduce-gun-deaths-make-guns-safer

[h=1]Rep. Maloney Introduces Legislation to Reduce Gun Deaths, Make Guns Safer[/h] May 8, 2017


Press Release


WASHINGTON —In an effort to improve gun safety, Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) has reintroduced The Handgun Trigger Safety Act, forward-thinking legislation to use new and emerging technology to prevent gun deaths. The bill would promote the development of new “smart gun” technology that only allows an authorized user to fire a gun. It would also mandate that all newly manufactured handguns use this technology within five years, and that existing handguns be retrofitted with this technology within ten years. Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) will introduce a companion version in the Senate.

If any R's wanted to score some points, they'd add an amendment requiring the govt pay for any "smart" trigger upgrades. Let them come up with an estimate (it would be $100s of billions to trillions) and choke on that.

 

[actaeon277]

Isn't she the kook who couldn't tell Tucker Carlson what a shroud was?

That was a Carolyn McCarthy

 

[IndyDave1776]

Welcome back! Where have you been?

My computer died just before the election and I just now got around to replacing it. I have definitely decided that I do NOT like Windows 10!

 

[jamil]

My computer died just before the election and I just now got around to replacing it. I have definitely decided that I do NOT like Windows 10!

Good to see you back!

Well. Really, I don't like any Windows OS. 7 was probably the last one that didn't completely suck. 8 sucked hard. 8.1 slightly less. 9 must have sucked so hard they skipped it and went straight to 10. 10, I haven't had all that much experience with other than running on a virtual machine to verify browser compatibility with Edge for work. But from what I've seen, 10 still better than 8 or 8.1.

 

[IndyDave1776]

Good to see you back!

Well. Really, I don't like any Windows OS. 7 was probably the last one that didn't completely suck. 8 sucked hard. 8.1 slightly less. 9 must have sucked so hard they skipped it and went straight to 10. 10, I haven't had all that much experience with other than running on a virtual machine to verify browser compatibility with Edge for work. But from what I've seen, 10 still better than 8 or 8.1.

I will defer to your judgment. I had a glitch while making my first attempt to respond here. While I was down, I decided to pull the two (4GB apiece) RAM sticks out of my old laptop and substitute them in. I has made a tremendous difference. After that surprise, I got the magnifying glass after the one RAM stick that came with the machine. One whole GB. No wonder it was so slow, much of which I had attributed to the machine. Oh well, as you pointed out it still sucks. I had Windows 7 before and was reasonably happy with it. I am still strongly considering converting to a Linux system, probably Zorin if I make the jump.

It is good to be back. You are one of those people I really missed while I was away!

 

[BugI02]

 

[femurphy77]

It's a shame they don't put as much effort into creating a smart politician!

 

[GIJEW]

No. She knows what she's doing. She is playing to the home crowd. Plain and simple.

Not just playing to the home crowd, but playing to the agenda of public disarmament...incrementally

If only YOU can fire it, then you can't teach your kids with it

If only YOU can fire it, then when you die, your kids can't inherit and use the firearm. Safe bet, there will be small print prohibiting gun smiths from changing the biometric setting.

With a sh***y electronic trigger which sometimes might be slow to respond like a CPU, you won't be able to become proficient. Then they'll take it, and your permit, on grounds that you're not a trained pro like NYPD and you're a hazard to bystanders

If the trigger is unreliable and you get injured or killed, they'll point to your body as proof that the public isn't capable of defense with guns and they should all just be banned

I'm sure there's more, but it hurts to 'think' like them

 

[russc2542]

No. She knows what she's doing. She is playing to the home crowd. Plain and simple.

Pretty much the rest of my family would buy it hook, line, and sinker too if they even opened something with "gun" in the headline.

Not just playing to the home crowd, but playing to the agenda of public disarmament...incrementally

If only YOU can fire it, then you can't teach your kids with it

If only YOU can fire it, then when you die, your kids can't inherit and use the firearm. Safe bet, there will be small print prohibiting gun smiths from changing the biometric setting.

With a sh***y electronic trigger which sometimes might be slow to respond like a CPU, you won't be able to become proficient. Then they'll take it, and your permit, on grounds that you're not a trained pro like NYPD and you're a hazard to bystanders

If the trigger is unreliable and you get injured or killed, they'll point to your body as proof that the public isn't capable of defense with guns and they should all just be banned

I'm sure there's more, but it hurts to 'think' like them

That angle hadn't occurred to me before but is a large portion of why I sold my '12 for a '03: the crappy electronic gas pedal and delay there-of. I'm one of those luddites who will only drive a manual trans and for those that haven't tried it, you wouldn't believe how maddening it is to try to coordinate two feet, an arm, and timing when one of the controls literally can't keep up. I'm enough of a nerd to plug into the computer and verify that I can snap the throttle wide open and closed again faster than the electric motor on any throttle-by-wire I've yet tried.

 

[bgcatty]

The smart guns most probably have more intelligence than the stupid idiot New York politicians.

 

[jamil]

The smart guns most probably have more intelligence than the stupid idiot New York politicians.

Smart guns, and even some of the dumb ones.

 

[JAL]

Not just playing to the home crowd, but playing to the agenda of public disarmament...incrementally

If only YOU can fire it, then you can't teach your kids with it

If only YOU can fire it, then when you die, your kids can't inherit and use the firearm. Safe bet, there will be small print prohibiting gun smiths from changing the biometric setting.

With a sh***y electronic trigger which sometimes might be slow to respond like a CPU, you won't be able to become proficient. Then they'll take it, and your permit, on grounds that you're not a trained pro like NYPD and you're a hazard to bystanders

If the trigger is unreliable and you get injured or killed, they'll point to your body as proof that the public isn't capable of defense with guns and they should all just be banned

I'm sure there's more, but it hurts to 'think' like them

Just went through the electronic fingerprinting process for the permit. The machine didn't like my fingerprints when it got to the second part where they roll each finger to get the sides. It wasn't finding a sufficient match to the first set. Finally got done with only three that were classed as "marginal". Found out as we were struggling with getting enough "print" to get through it that this was common with older people whose print ridges have worn down with age, especially when they have very dry hands. These machines cannot handle that very well. The lady doing the electronic print scanning had been doing it for six years. I wasn't the first one to have problems. The old fingerprint ink pad and card system still works and gets usable prints without undue effort, but they cannot use it any more.

My first thought afterward was about my two laptops that have biometric fingerprint readers that often require a half dozen or more scans to verify the fingerprint. I'd always thought the readers were flaky. Not true. It's because I'd worked my fingers to the bone for so long it wore the fingerprint ridges off them. My second thought was about biometric gun safes and "smart guns" that require fingerprint verification to function. Had nightmarish visions of some poor guy trying to get the gun safe to open and his handgun to work while the burglary or home invasion thugs kill him.

John

 

[actaeon277]

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