New Smart Gun Company Hopes To Begin Production This Summer 632
Lucas123 writes Safe Gun Technology (SGTi) is hoping it can begin production on its version of a smart gun within the next two months. The Columbus, Ga.-based company uses relatively simple fingerprint recognition through a flat, infrared reader positioned on the weapon's grip. The biometrics reader enables three other physical mechanisms that control the trigger, the firing pin and the gun hammer. The controller chip can save from 15,000 to 20,000 fingerprints. If a large military unit wanted to program thousands of finger prints into a single weapon, it would be possible. A single gun owner could also temporarily program a friend or family member's print into the gun to go target shooting and then remove it upon returning home."
Re:I won't be buying one... (Score:3, Interesting)
Not having a round chambered..
I know a guy who carries his fully loaded with a round chambered and doesn't use a holster. I would prefer he didn't chamber that final round or had it in a holster, but I don't see a problem if he wants to carry that way.
Re:I won't be buying one... (Score:5, Interesting)
a spring and a lever have a MTBF measured in millions of cycles. RoHS-compliant electronics made with commodity parts do not.
And I buy guns with as few extraneous safeties as possible.
Of course they do. Billions of cycles even. However, with a clock frequency measured in in megahertz, a billion cycles is only 17 minutes.