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Gun Control & RKBA

JustABozoOnThisBus

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4. "If you have a smartphone, maybe you unlock it with your fingerprint."

Reply to JonathanRackham (Original post)

Fri May 6, 2016, 03:38 PM

May 2016

Maybe it unlocks after using a fingerprint, maybe it doesn't. Maybe it takes a few times. Maybe it just gets annoying so I enter the stupid code.

Fortunately for me, when I need to unlock my phone, seconds normally do not count.

When police forces and military units adopt guns with this technology, then I'll believe it is ready for general use.

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NPR article on smart guns. [View all] JonathanRackham May 2016 OP

Good article Duckhunter935 May 2016 #1

This situation.... CompanyFirstSergeant May 2016 #2

I don't know, that's a RW source you have there. NPR. Eleanors38 May 2016 #3

You know... I heard someting funny this morning.... CompanyFirstSergeant May 2016 #5

Oh, hell, the Cokes are all over NPR and PBS. Eleanors38 May 2016 #6

"If you have a smartphone, maybe you unlock it with your fingerprint." JustABozoOnThisBus May 2016 #4

About 5% of us don't have readable fingerprints. Hangingon May 2016 #7

I never have fingerprints CompanyFirstSergeant May 2016 #8

Even if the tech was reliable (and it is not), ManiacJoe May 2016 #9

Temperature extremes and humidity killed PLCs on my ships. JonathanRackham May 2016 #10