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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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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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Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Kopel: Smart guns

“Smart guns” have been in the news recently. A gun store owner in Maryland abandoned plans to begin ...

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Friday, November 15, 2013

Poll Finds Americans Skeptical of So-called Smart Guns

"Smart Guns" is a made-up term for a conceptual firearm that incorporates technology that theoretically permits the gun ...

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Thursday, May 16, 2013

Personalized guns bill introduced

The bill, the Personalized Handgun Safety Act of 2013, mandates within two years that newly manufactured handguns be ...

Friday, March 1, 2013

Feinstein Holds Hearings on Gun and Magazine Ban

On Wednesday, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), who has been advocating banning one sort of gun or another for ...

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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.