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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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The Philadelphia Inquirer  

Friday, November 6, 2015

N.J. lawmakers recalibrate effort to boost 'smart guns'

In 2002, New Jersey became the first state in the nation to pass a law requiring all firearms ...

The Washington Post  

Thursday, October 22, 2015

Renewed push for smart guns could trigger a new furor over the technology

After vehement protests helped block the nation’s first smart gun from entering the marketplace, proponents of the technology ...

Fanciful "Smart Gun" Bill Seeks to Make Law Out of Wishful Thinking

Friday, June 19, 2015

Fanciful "Smart Gun" Bill Seeks to Make Law Out of Wishful Thinking

We all have our hopes for the future. In that regard, we're not so different from Senators Edward ...

News  

Friday, June 12, 2015

Maloney Unhinged

Over the past several decades, we’ve always been able to count on certain members of Congress to push ...

Fanciful "Smart Gun" Bill Seeks to Make Law Out of Wishful Thinking

Friday, June 5, 2015

Fanciful "Smart Gun" Bill Seeks to Make Law Out of Wishful Thinking

We all have our hopes for the future. In that regard, we're not so different from Senators Edward ...

Anti-gun Dems push "smart tech" handgun rules

The Hill  

Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Anti-gun Dems push "smart tech" handgun rules

Anti-gun Democrats are looking to place new restrictions on who can use handguns. The handgun bill would require gun ...

The Associated Press  

Thursday, May 14, 2015

N.J.: Lawmakers considering overhaul of "smart gun" law

A never enforced state law requiring pistols sold in New Jersey to have technology allowing only the gun’s ...

NJ.com  

Wednesday, May 13, 2015

N.J. lawmakers may scrap controversial 'smart gun' law

Leading Democratic state lawmakers are seriously considering scrapping New Jersey's longstanding but never-implemented law requiring all handguns sold ...

News  

Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Hillary’s Lip Service To The Second

“I respect the Second Amendment.” Hillary Clinton actually spoke those words in 2008—not coincidentally, the year of her ...

Wednesday, December 3, 2014

New Jersey: Attorney General Issues Report that Smart Gun Law is Not Triggered

New Jersey’s “Smart Gun” law, enacted in 2002, seeks to mandate the sale and manufacture of only “smart ...

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