An Answer to a Question No One Should have Asked.
I have a quick story to tell you, but before you yell, “Relevance!”, hear me out. I’m going somewhere with this, I swear. Recently the stereo in my modern car became defective. It has CD, satellite radio, OnStar and some other options I don’t use. But once a week since April, the digital display malfunctions, displaying random numbers and letters and the buttons don’t work. If I momentarily pull the fuse it starts to work fine again. But just for a week. By comparison, my ’71 Riviera had an Alpine stereo from 1985 installed in it. If you noticed the radio in Stallone’s truck in Over the Top, you’ll know the kind. I replaced it a couple of years ago simply because I wanted a more period correct model in my classic car. Its 80s appearance aside, it still worked just fine. FM and AM functioned with perfection and the cassette deck would play my antiquated tapes as good as the day Van Halen first split up.
Bottom line: I hate it when engineers reinvent the wheel. Why couldn’t General Motors make a flawless radio in my modern Buick? They did for several decades. And now, unnecessary reinvention like this is coming to a gun store near you. Simple, mechanical, analog engineering has served our guns well since before Samuel Colt gave us the revolver in 1836, and now it is being threatened. Threatened by politicians who know nothing of engineering and are trying to force the “smart gun” on us as a safer alternative. But is it really safer or even smart? A further look reveals that it actually is far less smart than it would seem.
What smart guns are supposed to do
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