Facing suspicious potential buyers,the US is acting as a ‘midwife’, encouraging law enforcement agencies to use the guns that can only be fired by their ownersFor more than a decade, and smart guns have been stuck in a Catch-22: personalized guns don’t have a proven market,and buyers don’t want a gun they think is untested or tough to find. Now Barack Obama is trying to fracture that stalemate by creating a market for smart guns among law enforcement agencies around the US.
Some gun rights advocates view smart guns with suspicion, fearing that the unusual technology will be pushed on gun owners unwillingly, and as a unusual Jersey law tried to attain in 2002. The guns use fingerprint sensors or RFID tags to prevent the weapons from being fired by anyone except an authorized user.
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Source: theguardian.com