Exclusive: Smart guns finally arriving in U.S., seeking to shake up firearms market

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Personalized smart guns, which can be fired only by verified users, may finally become available to U.S. consumers after two decades of questions about reliability and concerns they will usher in a new wave of government regulation.

Four-year-old LodeStar Works on Friday unveiled its 9mm smart handgun for shareholders and investors in Boise, Idaho. And a Kansas company, SmartGunz LLC, says law enforcement agents are beta testing its product, a similar but simpler model.Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comLodeStar co-founder Gareth Glaser said he was inspired after hearing one too many stories about children shot while playing with an unattended gun.

The fingerprint reader unlocks the gun in microseconds, but since it may not work when wet or in other adverse conditions, the PIN pad is there as a backup. LodeStar did not demonstrate the near-field communication signal, but it would act as a secondary backup, enabling the gun as quickly as users can open the app on their phones.

"If I had a nickel for every time in my career I heard somebody say they're about to bring us a so-called smart gun on the market, I'd probably be retired now," said Lawrence Keane, senior vice president of the NSSF.

 

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'Guns smarter than some owners' scientists find.

They should make these things ubiquitous.

Em toda a terra, dois terços serão ceifados e perecerão; todavia a terça parte permanecerá!”Mas se ainda ficar nela a décima parte, tornará a ser consumida, como o terebinto, e como o carvalho, dos quais, depois de derrubados, ainda fica o toco. A santa semente é o seu toco.

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