Colorado-based company Biofire Technologies’ smart gun, the first such gun that requires a biometric finger scan in order to fire the weapon, are now available for preorder.
The Biofire Smart Gun is a pistol that stores fingerprint data and facial recognition in order to unlock the gun and shoot it. The company claims the gun can also be unlocked in the dark. The weapon can store up to five unique biometric readings, preventing unauthorized users from unlocking and firing the weapon. The Biofire has a built-in sensor that keeps the gun armed when the holder is using it.
The WinePress reported on the release of this new smart gun last year before the company was accepting preorders.
Firearms are a fixture of American life, an ownership tradition that has been woven into the fabric of our society since before the nation’s founding. At the same time, forty thousand Americans lose their lives to firearms each year, two-thirds of them to accidents and suicides.
Firearms recently surpassed car accidents as the leading cause of death for children and teens. We can all agree that losing forty thousand people each year, especially the most vulnerable among us, is far too many.
Kai Kloepfer, founder and CEO of Biofire, said last November
The company has received investors from big names such as Google, Intel, NASA, Ford Motor Co., Army Futures Command, Michelin, Aimlock, and many others.
In a recent statement to The Epoch Times, Kloepher said that this is the first “major innovation in how a handgun has been designed or manufactured in 50 years,” and how “this is a new option for gun owners to give them peace of mind that their children or criminals won’t get their hands on it.”
The ET added: ‘Kloepfer, who said he owns a lot of regular guns, said his product gives people an option for a “new and better choice.”’
Naturally there are others who are skeptical of this invention.
Firearms are tools that individuals rely upon to save their lives and the lives of their loved ones. That necessitates a firearm to work, as designed, each and every time.
Additional points of failure, including authorized-user technology, are concerns for gun owners. If that technology fails, that could be catastrophic for an individual depending upon it to save his or her life.
Mark Oliva, The National Shootings Sports Foundation’s (NSSF) director of public affairs, told The Epoch Times.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
[38] And Saul armed David with his armour, and he put an helmet of brass upon his head; also he armed him with a coat of mail. [39] And David girded his sword upon his armour, and he assayed to go; for he had not proved it. And David said unto Saul, I cannot go with these; for I have not proved them. And David put them off him. 1 Samuel 17:38-39
No way I am trying this. I have the same cautions as Oliva does. As the old saying goes: ‘if ain’t broke don’t fix it.’ I’ll stick with the tried and trued mousetrap that works just as good.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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No thanks, I’ll stick to an old model gun that is mechanical, thank you very much!