The first so-called “smart gun” that uses biometrics to unlock for shooting will hit the market at the end of the year.
Biofire Technologies announced this month that it is taking pre-orders for its home defense gun that is intended to prevent unwanted access to children and criminals. This is either a big step forward in gun safety or a gimmick with unreliable technology, depending on who you ask.
Futuristic Gun
Smart guns, otherwise known as personalized handguns, have been in development for many years. The CEO and Founder of Biofire Technologies, Kai Kloepfer, told The Epoch Times in an interview that this is the first “major innovation in how a handgun has been designed or manufactured in 50 years.”
Kloepfer, 26, has been working on designing a smart gun since he was a teenager. “This is a new option for gun owners to give them peace of mind that their children or criminals won’t get their hands on it.”
The Biofire Smart Gun is a handgun that can be stored with fingerprints and 3D facial recognition to unlock it to shoot. The company says unlocking works in the dark. The data is stored in the gun in encrypted form. The gun can have biometrics for up to five total authorized users.
The Biofire gun has integrated infrared sensors in the grip to keep it armed while the user is holding it. As soon as the grip is released, the gun locks. It is powered by a rechargeable lithium-ion battery that Biofire says lasts several months with average use and can fire continuously for several hours. The firearm only comes in 9mm caliber, but buyers are given multiple choices for color and style and left- or right-handed.
Kloepfer, who said he owns a lot of regular guns, said his product gives people an option for a “new and better choice.”
Reliable Technology?
Gun rights groups have been leery that biometrics can function perfectly in self-defense scenarios. The National Shootings Sports Foundation (NSSF) represents gun manufacturers. Biofire is a member.
“Firearms are tools that individuals rely upon to save their lives and the lives of their loved ones. That necessitates a firearm to work, as designed, each and every time,” Mark Oliva, NSSF’s director of public affairs, told The Epoch Times. “Additional points of failure, including authorized-user technology, are concerns for gun owners. If that technology fails, that could be catastrophic for an individual depending upon it to save his or her life.”
By Emily Miller
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Here’s The Problem With Smart Guns
Smart Guns are finally arriving in the US.
Make as many daft punk Bladerunner crypto guns you want; just don’t force me or anyone else to buy them.
Unfortunately, that’s exactly what the likes of Joe Biden and the rest of the anti-gun politicians and organizations want to do.
So the gun community isn’t against smart gun technology; we’re against being FORCED to replace all of our guns with “smart” gun technology.
I don’t see too many cops racing to get smart guns.
The truth is, the anti-gun lobby, politicians, and groups salivate over smart guns because it’s the perfect way to gain the control they so desperately want.
The Second Amendment was specifically written to give power to the people not the government.
So unless there’s going to be some sort of firearm blockchain that the government can’t gain any control over, I don’t trust the government to control what my gun does and does not do.
I don’t want private companies to have control over what my gun does and does not do.
That’s exactly what smart guns are; they are the gateway to give power over how your gun functions to someone else that doesn’t have your best freedoms in mind.
By Emily Miller
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