09-11-2014, 09:43 PM
Three things
1) The kid lied about it coming to him in a dream, it came from Judge Dredd or another movie with biometric safe guns. He's still a smart kid considering he engineered the details himself, but it's an old idea.
2) There would still be some dumb parent out there that programs their kids' fingerprints onto the guns so they can teach them to use guns safely... but yes, it would drastically reduce the number of kid gun accidents, hopefully.
3) Cost will be a debatable factor. In a free market, prohibitive cost is an issue and yeah criminals don't care about non-lethal improvements to guns. However, regulations can be a bitch, and if the state or federal government says that EVERY gun manufacturer has to include safety measures... at least it'd be a step forward for the future. The guy who invented mufflers cashed in the same way.
Criminals would probably find ways around them, importing from Mexico or jailbreaking the tech, but 7 year olds probably wouldn't be that smart. Course, they put kid-proofing on lighters and people take those off.
1) The kid lied about it coming to him in a dream, it came from Judge Dredd or another movie with biometric safe guns. He's still a smart kid considering he engineered the details himself, but it's an old idea.
2) There would still be some dumb parent out there that programs their kids' fingerprints onto the guns so they can teach them to use guns safely... but yes, it would drastically reduce the number of kid gun accidents, hopefully.
3) Cost will be a debatable factor. In a free market, prohibitive cost is an issue and yeah criminals don't care about non-lethal improvements to guns. However, regulations can be a bitch, and if the state or federal government says that EVERY gun manufacturer has to include safety measures... at least it'd be a step forward for the future. The guy who invented mufflers cashed in the same way.
Criminals would probably find ways around them, importing from Mexico or jailbreaking the tech, but 7 year olds probably wouldn't be that smart. Course, they put kid-proofing on lighters and people take those off.