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"Smart" Guns | Personalized Firearms

Conceptually, a "smart" gun is one that incorporates technology that would prevent the gun from being used by an unauthorized person. Currently, no viable guns equipped with such technology exist.

Gun control supporters advocate laws to prohibit the sale of firearms that do not possess "smart" technology, as a way to prohibit the manufacture of traditional handguns, raise the price of handguns that would be allowed to be sold and, presumably, to imbed into handguns a device that would allow guns to be disabled remotely.

The NRA doesn’t oppose the development of “smart” guns, nor the ability of Americans to voluntarily acquire them. However, NRA opposes any law prohibiting Americans from acquiring or possessing firearms that don’t possess “smart” gun technology.

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New York Times  

Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Smart Guns Are a Delusion

Eventually, all American gun control advocacy descends into science fiction. "If we can set it up so you ...

Obama Misleads, Cites Bogus Data at CNN “Town Hall”

News  

Saturday, January 9, 2016

Obama Misleads, Cites Bogus Data at CNN “Town Hall”

On Thursday, January 7, President Barack Obama appeared in the CNN-produced “Guns in America,” an invitation-only “town hall” ...

Obama Issues Executive Actions on Guns

News  

Friday, January 8, 2016

Obama Issues Executive Actions on Guns

On Tuesday, the president announced a series of gun control actions in the form of “executive actions” during ...

Washington Times  

Wednesday, January 6, 2016

‘Smart gun’ technology sought by Obama through executive action

The Obama administration announced on Monday that the president has directed the Departments of Defense, Justice and Homeland ...

Washington Post  

Tuesday, January 5, 2016

Obama details executive action on gun restrictions

The Obama administration on Monday unveiled a series of new executive actions aimed at reducing gun violence and ...

Smoking Gun

News  

Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Smoking Gun

Few would care if the “smart gun” debate was only about the emergence of proven, reliable guns theoretically ...

NJ.com  

Tuesday, December 8, 2015

N.J. lawmakers act to put a 'smart gun' in every gun shop

The bill (S3249) would require retailers that sell guns to carry at least one smart gun in their ...

NJ.com  

Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Revamped N.J. smart gun bill advances after drawing fire from opponents

Opponents and the author of New Jersey's controversial 13-year-old smart gun law, widely blamed for holding up the ...

News  

Thursday, November 12, 2015

Exclusive: We Test The Armatix iP1, The Not-So-Smart Gun

In May 2014, NRA staffers secretly tested the Armatix iP1, the so-called “smart gun” that at the time ...

NJ.com  

Monday, November 9, 2015

Under new bill, a 'smart gun' in every N.J. gun shop

More than a dozen years after passing a "smart gun" law that is now blamed for stopping them ...

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Established in 1975, the Institute for Legislative Action (ILA) is the "lobbying" arm of the National Rifle Association of America. ILA is responsible for preserving the right of all law-abiding individuals in the legislative, political, and legal arenas, to purchase, possess and use firearms for legitimate purposes as guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.