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Smart Guns Aren't Science Fiction and Americans Want to Buy Them

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By Ben Guarino

Call smart guns what you will — personalized, child-proof, safer — but don’t call them science fiction. Thanks to advancements in radio-frequency identification and the ubiquity of fingerprint scanners, smart guns have cleared the technology barrier. The only obstacle left is cultural.

The gun industry, ever wary of change but, more importantly, lost profits, has reframed the opposition in consumerist terms to argue that the market is keeping smart guns out of stores. Nobody — or more accurately, only one in seven people — wants these weapons, say industry groups, like the National Shooting read more >>>

Source : HuffingtonPost.Com