The newest James Bond movie SKYFALL featured our hero having a gun with a sophisticated fingerprint I.D. system which allowed only the owner to fire the weapon.

What if gun owners can be sure (or close to at least) assuring it can't be stolen and used for crimes, or people/relatives "borrowing" the guns? I find this a compelling alternative that everybody would(should?) be fine with. Of course it doesn't stop gun owners from committing such crimes themselves, but this is a good idea.

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One intriguing possibility is mandating some technological solution to make it harder for people other than the registered owner to fire the gun. Various “smart gun” technologies exist or are in the works which rely on RFID chips and biometric devices; cruder devices, which rely on complicated rings to activate the trigger, have been available for decades. If effectively implemented, they could conceivably greatly reduce the number of crimes committed with stolen weapons, including cases such as this one where a teenager steals a weapon from a parent. They’d also, presumably, cut down on gun suicides and accidental shooting deaths of children.


http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/meaningful-action-to-prevent-more-tragedies-like-this/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OTB+%28Outside+The+Beltway+%7C+OTB%29

~Of course that proposal has one flaw that some will quickly jump on as "not a success story." In that of course the gun owners can and will still go do massacres.

Last edited by ronnierocketAGO; 12/18/12 12:30 AM.