Fanciful “Smart Gun” Bill Seeks to Make Law Out of Wishful Thinking
Fairfax, VA -(AmmoLand.com)- We all have our hopes for the future. In that regard, we’re not so different from Senators Edward J. Markey and Elizabeth Warren (both D-Mass.).
Where we’re just a little bit different, however, is that while we recognize some people might wish to replace travel by automobiles with on-demand flight via pollution-free unicorns, we’re not sure a law to that effect is really necessary. Similarly, while some people might want guns to be designed like “Kitt,” the talking car in the David Hasselhoff series “Knight Rider,” it takes a special kind of dreamer to turn that dream into federal legislation. Enter the senators from Massachusetts.
On June 3, in conjunction with what they were calling “National Gun Violence Awareness Day,” Markey and Warren introduced “the Handgun Trigger Safety Act.” Filled with more aspirational, non-existent technology than the North Korean space program, it imagines a future in which guns not only recognize their owners, they apparently deactivate themselves when handled by a legally prohibited person.
In brief, the bill would federally fund development of so-called “personalized handguns” and prohibit the manufacture of any …read more
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