Ooh, ooh, new idea...
You may have seen tech news articles about cell-phone jammers being proposed
and/or installed. The notion is that they would be installed in places like
movie theaters.
Combine this with the proposed electronic trigger locks and ... well, you
see where I'm going.
Let's see how this might work:
- The punishment for selling, posessing or manufacturing guns without
electronic trigger locks is incredibly high.
- Guns issued to military and law-enforcement officers do not have these
devices, but they are required to have the fingerprint-locks instead.
- If you want a gun for home defense, great - your home won't have a gun
jammer.
- Conversely, you could install a home-gun-jammer if you wanted one.
- Legitimate places for the discharge of firearms - e.g. shooting ranges,
hunting grounds, etc. - obviously wouldn't have the jammers.
Potential problems:
- Can these be designed such that the lock can't be defeated without
rendering the gun inoperable? The notion of the trigger locks is to prevent
(e.g.) a child using the gun, not a dedicated sociopath who can disassemble
the gun.
- Obviously, you could smuggle a gun into the country that doesn't have one
of these devices. But isn't the US the largest manufacturer, etc. etc.
- This would be impossible to retrofit into existing weapons.
- The "self defense" contra-argument - I break into someone's house carrying
a portable scrambler and a baseball bat.
Further thoughts?
Joshua
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