New "smart gun" hits the shelves

[milkmanjoe]

I have seen it all, or so I thought. These come from Germany, so I figure the Small Arms Treaty should squash this crap. Well, like the SAT is gonna be enacted.
I think this manufacturer's logic for betting on American's wanting more shooting safety is akin to peeing up a rope.

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2014/02/...in-california/

But then again, they did release them in Cali.

[Snipersnest]

Wouldn't want to bet my life on that one. Too much can go wrong, dead batteries, etc. just when you really need it.

[rockinit]

Wow, it's spending. I couldn't see myself buying one. Will the wristwatch look like a normal watch or will it be an announcement that the person is carrying and what they are carrying?

[Riverpigusmc]

Some Dillweed in Congress just entered legislation requiring this for all our handguns. Wanna guess which party he belongs to?

[Carl in GA]

I really hope this company goes bankrupt. And quickly.

[Caleb]

DAGNABIT, !!!!!

[Snipersnest]

Originally Posted by Riverpigusmc

Some Dillweed in Congress just entered legislation requiring this for all our handguns. Wanna guess which party he belongs to?

Yeah he's a Democrat from Massachusetts, Ed Markey. He's as clueless as the rest of the Taxachusetts Democrats. He, Live Shot Kerry and Granny Warren (The Fake Indian) all know what's best for us and they're only trying to protect us from ourselves.

[KeystoneWeaponBK]

Wow, that's really not very good… as mentioned before, so many failure points…

On a "Related" note I saw Hornady is making a quick access safe that uses RFID tech and a bracelet or a key fob to open (With a numeric backup), I think that's a smarter way to go… although I saw it at SHOT and it was still a little sluggish for me, heck the biometric safes aren't as reliable as my old school mechanical safe.

[milkmanjoe]

Originally Posted by KeystoneWeaponBK

Wow, that's really not very good… as mentioned before, so many failure points…

On a "Related" note I saw Hornady is making a quick access safe that uses RFID tech and a bracelet or a key fob to open (With a numeric backup), I think that's a smarter way to go… although I saw it at SHOT and it was still a little sluggish for me, heck the biometric safes aren't as reliable as my old school mechanical safe.

I have one touchpad safe since 2006, all I have done is change batteries. Guess I am lucky cause I am in and out of it a dozen times a day. I bought is when our kids were small, I could hit the numbers in the dark, retrieve a firearm if needed. Now I can sleep through nite problems, kids got my back.

[BlackKnight]

Originally Posted by milkmanjoe

I have one touchpad safe since 2006, all I have done is change batteries. Guess I am lucky cause I am in and out of it a dozen times a day. I bought is when our kids were small, I could hit the numbers in the dark, retrieve a firearm if needed. Now I can sleep through nite problems, kids got my back.

Same here. I got it when my kids were small. I still use it when I leave the house and want to leave one of my guns home (I carry two when on duty).
I once woke up in the middle of the night to gunshots in front of my house. Before I was fully awake I had a gun in hand ready to take on whatever it was. Fortunately, it was an officer putting an animal down.