NRA lies smartly exposed: The truth about consumer demand for life-saving smart guns

[krispos42]

76. I'd be interested in reading about the Mossberg

I'm not a Luddite, unlike those vicious people that have tried to repress sales of smart guns by threatening gun store owners. I do, however, object to people such as yourself that think that gun makers should just stop making all current-production guns and turn on a dime to start making smart guns.

I mean, god forbid the technology evolve, right? That the technology go through development and adaptation to seek out flaws and refinements in the system. God forbid that people field-test the things outside of a laboratory, or do an endurance test on it.

I'll tell you what I'd like to see... the transponder safety system in a competitive shooting environment. "Race guns". It's a way to test the guns over thousands of rounds, in a variety of tactical situations, and with some very demanding people judging it. But, nobody's lives are put at risk because if the gun fails to shoot, it's just a loss of points.

If the system will work there, it will work in other places. But somehow I don't see Bloomburg or MDA or any other gun-safety organization putting any effort at all to make this happen.


It's pretty simple and pretty cheap, compared to the cash spent lobbying. Bloomberg simply finds an up-and-coming but unknown competitive shooter. A few uniform shirts, a few hundred dollars for gear, a couple of grand for a quality competitive gun, a couple of more grand for the transponder safety system, and a couple of thousand dollars a month for practice ammo. Throw in some travel money, and this guy (or woman) could travel the country with advertising targeting the very people YOU need to convince. If the system works, then this person will perform at least decently in shooting competitions because, as you like to say, it's at least as reliable as the mechanical action of the rest of the handgun, right?

So for a ten-grand outlay and a maybe 4 grand a month your side could be having a high-impact spokeperson delivering real-world, undeniable, YouTube-able performance that proves your side is right.

I'd LOVE to see that. So ask yourself why it isn't happening.