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    New Smart Guns Will Have Fingerprint Readers - Slashdot

    https://tech.slashdot.org/story/16/1...rprint-readers

    A recent article in the Wall Street Journal described the International San Francisco Smart Gun Symposium, and the "Mark Zuckerberg of guns," a Colorado 18-year-old who's developing a gun which only fires when its owner's fingerprint makes contact with the pistol grip. But it looks like he'll have competition. Lucas123 writes:

    Armatix LLC's new iP9 smart gun will go on sale in the U.S. in mid-2017 and...will have a fingerprint reader that can store multiple scans like a smartphone. The iP9 is expected to retail for about $1,365, which is more than twice the price of many conventional 9mm semi-automatic pistols...

    The company's previous product was a smart gun which only fired when it was within 10 inches of radio waves emanating from its owner's watch, but they had trouble attracting buyers. Armatix now also hopes to interest shooting ranges in a gun which only fires when its built-in RFID system recognizes that it's pointing at a shooting target.
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    Lol
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    Dumbest idea ever... yes. Lets add in an electronic component into firearms. Electronics that can fail and need power. Yep. Most likely it can be tampered or interfered with.

    Im guessing its for police and another way to say "hey, lets spend a few million dollars on these new guns!"

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    Personally, I prefer to be the smarts behind any inanimate object that I own.
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