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Will the iGun be the solution to gun trafficking?

Discussion in 'Gun Control' started by Galileo, Mar 26, 2016.

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  1. Joves the Instigator

    Joves the Instigator Member

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    Well if your guns starts screwing up you will have to call your kid to get it going again by hacking it.

    I agree. And this is why we have the NDAA, unPatriot ACT, and the NSA supposedly no longer collecting data. Though you never hear about the Fusion Centers collecting data.
     
    Joves the Instigator, Mar 27, 2016
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  2. Dispondent

    Dispondent Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Back to this nonsense again? Guns are not engineering marvels, no transmitter or smart chip will ever change the core mechanics that make guns work, meaning removing the chips makes it a dumb gun again. This idea keeps floating around and it is as stupid now as it will be next time we hear it. Aside from that, why on Earth would I want to put my rights in the hands of third party chip manufacturers? Last I heard Colt, Glock, Smith & Wesson were not chip makers, but they are good gun makers...
     
    Dispondent, Mar 27, 2016
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  3. Nightmare515

    Nightmare515 Ragin' Cajun Staff Member Past Donor

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    Wasn't there some stink about something like this being implemented in cars a few years ago? I remember reading about how Onstar has a chip in the car that can remotely cut the engine off. It's so that if your car is stolen then it can't get very far. The other part of course is that the cops can also call Onstar on you and have your car engine disabled if you get into a high speed chase or something.

    I remember it being strictly voluntary though and it was an option you could buy if you so desired but when the government was thinking it would be a good idea to make such a thing mandatory the people went into an uproar...

    Yeah, the people don't really take too kindly to the government being able to "remotely" do anything to their personal property regardless of what it is.
     
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  4. TOG 6

    TOG 6 Well-Known Member

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    Why would the state have the capacity to turn off one of these guns? How would the state know I have one?
     
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  5. Nightmare515

    Nightmare515 Ragin' Cajun Staff Member Past Donor

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    If people are advocating we implement such devices on guns then I'm pretty sure they are also advocating you register it
     
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  6. Ddyad

    Ddyad Well-Known Member

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    The gun control advocates are determined to create a new underground gun manufacturing industry.
    Then we will have a Phony War On DIY Guns to go with the Phony War On Drugs and the Phony War On Terrorism.

    Human beings are supposed to have some ability to see what will happen next.
     
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  7. TOG 6

    TOG 6 Well-Known Member

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    Of course.
    I just wanted him to say it.
     
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  8. Greataxe

    Greataxe Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    What could go wrong?

    A fantasy gun for Leftist technogeeks, and gun control fanatics.
     
    Greataxe, Mar 28, 2016
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  9. perdidochas

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    I don't want a gun that could be potentially hacked and made useless. The disabling part of it would make it a no-brainer to refuse. Now, I will adopt a normal smart gun (i.e.that only allows me to shoot it), after the FBI, Secret Service, Seal Team Six, all of the rest of the military, all state police departments, the ATF, the DEA, all other federal police agencies, and all local police adopt them first.
     
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  10. perdidochas

    perdidochas Well-Known Member

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    If the banoids are manufacturing our murder rates, they are pretty stupid. The murder rates advance gun rights, not gun control. We are at the lowest level of murder since the FBI started recording it systematically in 1960. Our murder rate is half of what it was 25 years ago.
     
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  11. DoctorWho

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    Note; the Gun Ban Clack does not like the F.B.I. statistics because they prove gun bans do not affect crime, or any other gun control measure.
     
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  12. Regular Joe

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    Please. Have enough respect to use your brain, just a tiny bit, before you address me.
    I know you know that right now, the Chicago body count stands at twice the number as it was at the same time as last year. You know that. You know that it's black on black; thug on thug.
    Thugs on drugs that are delivered by our own corrupt Gov.
     
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  13. DoctorWho

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    Even if this so called I Gun is not hacked, every computer controlled device I have always freezes or stalls or needs to be re-booted has glitches of many kinds, it needs batteries, and what do you do if the guns batteries die ?
    Will it still fire ?

    Also, chips fail, connections and wires break, will the gun still fire if the computer fails ?

    Personally, I do not want a laser on my sidearm, or a light, or anything with batteries, I survived without them and serviced the enemy without such devices even in total darkness at night.

    Perhaps, I might like a laser on a carbine.

    To answer the OPs question: Will an I-Gun solve gun trafficking problems ?
    Answer; no, it will not solve any gun trafficking issues, gun traffickers will still traffic guns, non smart guns !!!!
     
    DoctorWho, Mar 29, 2016
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  14. Hoosier8

    Hoosier8 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    [video=youtube_share;kyisfzUT7Ys]http://youtu.be/kyisfzUT7Ys[/video]
     
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  15. tidbit

    tidbit New Member Past Donor

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    eeeeeeew.

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    My youngest son would love that: A iPhone built into a gun handle. Funny.
     
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  16. perdidochas

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    Well, the 2015 and 2016 figures aren't out yet. The point is that the nation's murder rate is at record lows (well, in 2014). Lower than it has been since 1960. Half of what it was in 1993. Murder rates are not a good point for the gun banners. They are a positive point for those of us who believe in RKBA. Gun control is reduced federally since 1993. Did that cause the lower murder rates? I don't know, but decreased gun control certainly didn't cause higher murder rates.
     
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  17. DoctorWho

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    And again, Puerto Rico is a great litmus test to watch as that Island had gone to Constitutional carry, how will gun control advocates explain the reduction in crime, is what I would like to know.
     
    DoctorWho, Mar 29, 2016
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