Democrats Continue Their Push For ‘Smart Guns’

By Tom Knighton

In the 2020 presidential campaign, smart guns are becoming something of a talking point. Now, bear in mind that the technology isn’t really viable at the moment. Also remember that there’s no real market demand for such a gun and much of what demand there is comes from people who aren’t likely to purchase a firearm if such a weapon were available. None of that matters, though, because anti-gun politicians want to push for them anyway.

Talk about smart guns has become something of a talking point.

The latest move in this direction is legislation introduced by U.S. Sen. Christopher Murphy (D-CT) designed to “amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide an enhanced research credit for the development of smart gun technologies.”

Politicians like Biden and Murphy have noticed that American gun owners have shown no interest in buying products that put the uncertainty of a battery and some kind of new technology between them and their perfectly functioning firearms, so they want to force us to buy and use them.

The politicians backing this type of legislation surmise that if this technology is developed, “smart guns” can then be made mandatory. A mandate of this technology then becomes …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms