Colorado company introduces 'smart gun' it hopes will lower the number of firearm deaths

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A Colorado-based weapons startup has launched a 'smart gun' which will fire normally as long as the user's fingerprint or face is stored in its memory banks.

Colorado-based weapons startup BioFire Technologies has introduced a"smart gun" that uses smartphone-like technology to keep it from being fired by unauthorized users.For a generation, the concept of a gun that can only be fired by its rightful owner was seen as something of a holy grail for gun safety. Efforts to develop the technology were launched, and the state of New Jersey even went so far to build a law around the concept -- long before development efforts bore fruit.

Colorado-based weapons startup BioFire Technologies has introduced a"smart gun" that uses smartphone-like technology to keep it from being fired by unauthorized users."Guns are very, very different than cellphones -- they're designed to explode," said Kloepfer. "We've hired the engineers and spent the capital to build all that technology directly into a firearm in a seamless way.

"If I could save one kid's life that would otherwise be lost to firearms, I think we've been successful," said Kloepfer. "If I could save 10,000, that's even better."at a movie theater "With this, as soon as you pick up in it in a traditional or a normal fighting stance, it's going to pick up your face and it's going to unlock the weapon," said Mulroy. "I thought it fired just like the weapons I'm familiar with."

 

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