Motherboard Debuts Brand-New Documentary ‘A Smarter Gun’

By Ammoland Editor Joe Evans

BROOKLYN, N.Y. -(Ammoland.com)- Today, Motherboard, VICE’s technology and culture site, is excited to debut A Smarter Gun, a brand-new documentary examining the small movement that seeks to change the very technology at the heart of guns.

Hosted by Motherboard Features Editor Brian Anderson, the documentary features interviews with the players behind this movement to create user-authenticated firearms — so-called smart guns — that only fire in the hands of approved users.

Speaking with advocates and critics of the technology, A Smarter Gun asks the question of why, in an age when everything from refrigerators to cars is computerized, this potential solution to firearm violence has been stymied at every turn.

Watch ‘A Smarter Gun’:

Over the course of two years of filming, Motherboard toured the ATF’s massive gun vault and test range in West Virginia, where Anderson went in search of the elusive smart gun. Motherboard’s journey also takes them to the fringe — a garage in Washington State — for an exclusive look at the first ever test fire of an implant-activated gun, and then to bucolic upstate New York to spend time with a grieving mother whose 11-year-old son was accidentally shot …Read the Rest

Source:: AmmoLand