Smart Tech Firearm Challenge offers US$1m to advance gun safety

 

• Its a catch 22 for smart weapons, because ownership and intent are separate things. So incorporating fingerprint scanner into the handle will only make a firearm work for the individual. But it does not control how he will discharge it and at whom.
• Additionally, in a self defense scenario with a quick draw, will the scanner succeed in authorizing the user in time to defend himself.
• The best way is all new firearms built with removable dongles. Dongle will only work if inserted into the firearm.
• Dongle is highly detectable through a radiological print (radium source). Coded for the user. Detectable from a distance.
• Then you can have firearm free zones where you leave your dongle at the door and hold on to your piece.
• Of course people will modify firearm to bypass the dongle which is their given right. But that can be managed administratively through long jail sentences.
• For ‘touching you from afar’ weapons like rifles, impose a dongle free zone from beyond its usable range. Make them forbidden in towns and cities.
• As for old firearms and sharp sticks, required aftermarket modifications to continue to hold license. Failure to comply is managed administratively.