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Kamaji:
First-ever ‘smart gun’ with fingerprint unlocking system hits the market

By Rich Calder and Natalie O'Neill
April 13, 2023

The world’s first “smart gun” hit the market Thursday, complete with a life-saving fingerprint unlocking system that prevents “unauthorized” people such as kids and criminals from firing it.

The cutting-edge 9mm handgun locks out everybody except the owner and users specifically approved by the owner — technology that could improve gun safety in America, according to reps from the gun-making firm Biofire.

“Right now it seems like the entire country is always processing a new tragedy involving children and guns,” the Colorado-based firm’s CEO Kai Kloepfer told The Post. “We are offering a real solution, at a time when solutions seem very hard to come by.”

The $1,499 gun unlocks in less than a second, using either a fingerprint or facial recognition sensor, then quickly locks again when it’s no longer in use.

As gun control legislation remains largely stalled in the US, the innovation could help prevent everything from school shootings to accidents and suicides, reps from the company said.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2023/04/13/first-ever-smart-gun-with-fingerprint-unlocking-system-hits-the-market/

DefiantMassRINO:
I predict more fingers will be cut off and stored in freezers - or - fingerprints will be duplicated using digital technology.

andy58-in-nh:
Because when you're in a life-or-death threat situation, you really want to depend on proper placement of your trigger finger and not having any grease or sweat preventing the sensor from correctly identifying you.

Stupid and dangerous.

Kamaji:

--- Quote from: andy58-in-nh on April 13, 2023, 02:35:52 pm ---Because when you're in a life-or-death threat situation, you really want to depend on proper placement of your trigger finger and not having any grease or sweat preventing the sensor from correctly identifying you.

Stupid and dangerous.

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Or, worse yet, not have the facial recognition system recognize your face because it's dark, you have serious bed-head, or you're hiding from an assailant and don't have a good camera angle.

GtHawk:

--- Quote from: DefiantMassRINO on April 13, 2023, 02:26:44 pm ---I predict more fingers will be cut off and stored in freezers - or - fingerprints will be duplicated using digital technology.

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Did you ever see the movie 'Shoot Em Up' 2007 ? It was a fun over the top romp and it made fun of finger print guns in that exact way with the hero/anti hero? cutting off aa bad guys thumb so that he could use the guys finger print protected gun.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlx4n_ibNZE

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