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“Smart guns” are back.
I won’t call any gun “smart” now that they’re the leading cause of death for children in a country ravaged by mass shootings, where a 5-year-old girl was just killed minutes away from my home. But I think it’s still worth pointing out someone’s finally selling a gun that is theoretically harder for kids to access.
Forgotten Weapons has a good overview of the mechanisms, which make tradeoffs between home defense and safety: There’s nothing to keep kids from pointing the face scanner at a parent, though the gun should lock when it’s set down.
Biofire: The First Worthwhile “Smart Gun”?
[Forgotten Weapons]
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