Military Experts LAUGH At Obama’s “Smart Gun” Mandate

By Bob Owens

President Obama’s threatened “executive actions” on guns in January turned out to be all sizzle and no steak, and actually served to clear the path for citizens to obtain NFA items, such as sawed-off shotguns, silencers, and machine guns more easily.

Now we’re getting word that some military experts actually laughed at Obama’s mandate that the military waste time, money, and energy researching “smart gun” technology that is universally regarded as technologically immature and unwanted.

Wartime U.S. presidents have taken keen personal interest in picking the most lethal gun for the military.

But in President Obama’s first foray into small-arms procurement for the armed forces, his Jan. 4 executive order on gun control directs the Pentagon to find ways to make not so much more lethal firearms, but safer ones.

His direct order has brought a few snickers among retired combatants who argue that the commander in chief is issuing his directive at a time of more pressing small-arms priorities. The military, critics say, fields a flawed personal rifle and has spent more than a decade selecting a new off-the-shelf pistol, with no winner yet.

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John F. Kennedy, considered a founding father of the Green Berets, pushed the Army to give …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms