Fanciful “Smart Gun” Bill Seeks To Make Law Out Of Wishful Thinking

By Patriot Outdoor News

By ten years after the bill’s enactment date, the only handguns that could be lawfully distributed commercially would be personalized handguns or handguns retrofitted with personalizing technology.

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 affect is really necessary. Similarly, while some people might want guns to be designed like “Kitt,” the taking 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” …read more

Source:: Patriot Outdoor News