Would you buy a gun from this man? Or a “smart gun”?
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August 7th, 2014 at 9:16 pm
But… but… but… that’s OK… it’s a SMART gun…
Dann in Ohio
August 8th, 2014 at 7:29 am
Oh yeah, I just NEED a firearm with “extra” things between the booger hook and the primer.
ESPECIALLY one that’s EMPable, or otherwise “remotely”
disabled.
“On-Star” for your safety!
August 8th, 2014 at 7:42 am
And I can see he’s wearing his watch on his right wrist like EVERYBODY does…which also means the gun is hot as it’s facing the camera.
August 8th, 2014 at 8:46 am
The gun is smart, no one said the inventor was.
August 8th, 2014 at 9:01 am
But you could be shot dead by the BG while you are entering the activation code on the watch. Could you even remember the code or enter it in time in a panic situation?
August 8th, 2014 at 10:42 am
Geoff, It’s not just punching in a number. Two cellphones before the one I have now had a voice-dialing feature. Dictate the name into the phone and it would dial the number for you. The salesman and the owner’s manual both expressly said to NOT put 9-1-1 into the voice dialer because under stress you WILL say 9-1-1 differently than non-stressed in your living room.
And again, I say, if this is such a good idea, roll it out with the police and security FIRST, as they are the ones whose jobs statistically are guaranteed to bring them in really close proximity to people who want to take their guns away from them and use them against them. Saying it’s to keep the gun from being taken from the owner/possessor and then exempting the people who have the most struggles for control of the gun in their daily lives is admitting this is all about remotely disabling the guns at some unspecified time in the future.
August 8th, 2014 at 10:47 am
“This gun be smart so you don’t have to!”
August 8th, 2014 at 11:40 am
The term “smart gun” is a complete oxymoron.
And this guy is a moron.
August 8th, 2014 at 12:14 pm
Wow surprising, he broke the first rule of hand gun safety, Never point your weapon at anything you don’t want to shoot at. Crazy!
August 8th, 2014 at 1:09 pm
Steve it’s not that surprising. Parse the man’s Ephiphany on the need for smart guns as found here.
http://bearingarms.com/american-shooters-intelligent-fall-dumb-smart-guns/
“Mauch came home to that family one day in the 1990s following four hours of questioning by authorities after a boy accidentally killed a friend with one of Heckler & Koch’s handguns. “Why did the boy not know the gun was loaded?” Mauch was asked. “Why did the boy not know there was a round in the chamber?””
Note the cross violation of multiple safety rules brought on by ignorance.
Note his solution is to make a technological barrier so people don’t need to *learn* safety rules.
(Nevermind that the technological “solution” to that problem is Loaded Chamber indicators)
Note how he so casually breaks those very rules himself. Even while *wearing* the activation watch.
Hell, from that angle his finger might even have been on the trigger. We’re really looking at good odds taht the inventor of the “smart gun” is going to have an ND at a press conference.
August 8th, 2014 at 1:28 pm
Windy, statistically, non police are far more likely come into contact with bad guys than cops. Bad guys routinely target non police. That’s why cops are called first responders: they respond after a crime has been committed. And that’s why crimes committed against cops always make the news: they’re far more rare than crimes against non cops.
August 8th, 2014 at 5:13 pm
Windy Wilson: What the hell does voice activation of a cell phone have to do entering a 4 or 5 digit code into the watch? First of all, it’s a .22. Need a head shot for that. Second, gun in holster, watch on wrist, hand more than 10″ from gun. Bad Guy accosts you pointing gun at you, or breaks down your door and gun is elsewhere, maybe in bedroom, maybe desk drawer. You got time to draw and enter code before he sees what you are doing and shoots you dead? You got time to go retrieve gun before he shoots you dead? NO THANKS. I’ll stay with my 18 round 9mm. with 135gr. Hydro-Shok ammo and get him first. Which just happens to be in my holster on my hip unless I’sleeping, and then it is within arms reach.
August 8th, 2014 at 5:17 pm
Funny, no matter how smart the gun is, his stupidity and poor gun handling practices have outsmarted it.
So, there goes the usefulness of a smart gun cutting down on accidental shootings.
August 8th, 2014 at 5:21 pm
If you blow the picture up, you can’t tell if his trigger finger is on the trigger, but it is definitely curved toward it instead of being laid alongside the frame.
Whole lot of fail
August 9th, 2014 at 7:57 am
It won’t go off, it’s too smart.
August 9th, 2014 at 9:31 am
Time for a consumer boycott of HK. Let them live on their government contracts and let governments live with their smart guns.
August 9th, 2014 at 10:57 am
You should read the article, Richard.
August 9th, 2014 at 11:31 am
The gun is in .22 for safety — after all, who has .22 ammo now?
August 9th, 2014 at 4:02 pm
HL
I did read the article. Any purveyor of such technology needs to be punished.
August 10th, 2014 at 12:58 am
I boycotted H&K long long ago, largely because H&K thought it was good to boycot civilians. Now we know why.
August 10th, 2014 at 10:09 am
I don’t see anywhere in the article where HK is responsible for this. He left HK in 2005 to work on the smart gun. The company that is building the smart gun is Armatrix.
He is the man behind the smart gun, and HK forced him out 9 years ago.
August 10th, 2014 at 11:39 am
Geoff, it is another illustration of CaptDMO’s objection to additional linkages and “things” between the person and the activation of the tool. It is also a comparison of two stressful situations and how technology may not be an appropriate substitution for technique. Your mind under stress as you say may not remember the code to key in, just as your voice will sound different under stress. As an example from real life, if you recall the miniseries, “From the Earth to the Moon, Alan Bean’s fellow crewmen on Apollo 12 reported just such a frequency change in Bean’s voice after the lightning discharge took the command module instrumentation offline.
August 11th, 2014 at 5:23 pm
It’s so smart he doesn’t have to be!
August 14th, 2014 at 12:42 pm
This reminds me of how “Child Safety” lids on medicine bottles and household cleaners aren’t as good an idea as originally thought. Apparently they are directly linked to *more* poisonings, rather than *less*, because parents assume that kids can’t get into them, but they tend to be less kid-proof than originally thought…