An idea for new gun technology that would actually do something

There are a few technologies out there which are already available which we could utilize to make guns safer and more easily controlled.

First we get rid of the hammer ignition system for bullets. Like flintlock guns we have progressed to a point where we can have electronic detonation of the explosive charge in a bullet. There are already systems developed that fire bullets with circuit which we could require for all future weapons. This would mean current bullets would not be manufactured for the public. This would make it harder to produce a device that could fire bullets. We could also incorporate digital keys into bullets rendering them inoperable if the key is not matched.

We presently have the technology for electronic triggers. The paintball industry has developed a number of different adaptations on the trigger that are computerized. This is not terribly expensive or hard to do. We have biometric tools for unlocking our computers and phones that could be adapted for guns. This would mean that a gun would read the palm or fingerprint of a person and would not fire unless that person is holding the weapon. This could also be adapting d to make sure the person is gripping the weapon properly. It might even be conceivable to make it so the gun will not fire if the gun recognizes it might hit the shooter making it harder to commit suicide with guns. Our phones already have technology that can sense our orientation in regards to them. If you can put it into a phone you can put it into an electric trigger.

Through these devices we can track and control who uses guns. If you don't have mechanical bullets and only have digital bullets you might also have technology that would disable a gun if needed. Perhaps a place like a school would have an active broadcast code disabling firearms unless they are registered to law enforcement.

 

good luck with that.

 

Just retrofitting all guns with Pin Numbers to release the safety would go a long way towards reducing accidental shootings and keep them out of the wrong hands.

The technology to make SAFE firearms exists and it should be possible to make it retroactive to all existing firearms. Exemptions for "classic" and "collector" firearms could be made where the Pin Number mechanism would not alter the original mechanisms but instead operate more akin to an external safety devices.

 

Among other things, this would not have stopped the Parkland highschool shooter.

 

Did I say it would?

 

That sounds like a great idea.

We have required low tech tracer technology in explosives and fertilizer for years after the Oklahoma City bombing.

This seems like a logical solution.

 

I tell you what.

After you make all cars refuse to start until someone passes a breathalyzer then you can work on guns.

 

The idea is not very practical

Unless you first grab - meaning take away - all the guns in existance now you will still have hundreds of millions of guns in society using conventional technology

 

Cars are SAFE to use as designed.

Guns are UNSAFE to use as designed.

Let's address the actual problem instead of the imaginary problem.

 

How about a gun that calls 911 when you pull the trigger, and waits for the police to arrive and approve the shot before sending the bullet downrange?

 

Nothing stopping the retrofitting of Pin Locks to all existing guns.

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They are unsafe in the same way a chainsaw is unsafe.

 

You think Drunk Driving is an imaginary problem?

Oh Brother

 

It does not sound very handy in an emergency

 

Since when can a chainsaw kill someone 100 yards away?

 

no. my guns will fire when I pull the trigger. That is all anyone needs to know about how to control a guns fire.

 

It is a whole lot safer when there is no emergency which just happens to be 99.999% of the time.

 

Fail. Too easy to reload your own.

 

They will also fire when someone else pulls the trigger and that is the problem.

 

Too easy to defeat on a simple machine and in fact you can make a gun in your garage legally if you don’t sell it.

 

Not a problem if your spouse needed to use it on an intruder.

 

You moved the goalpost.

Guns, like chainsaws, are only unsafe when used, as designed, by a careless, or nefarious actor. When used by a careful, responsible user, they are far safer, statistically, than cars are.

 

Since you have just admitted that guns are unsafe why are you opposed to making them safer and preventing them being used by "careless, or nefarious" actors?

 

Nothing you have proposed would stop a crime.