Kai Kloepfer, founder and CEO of Biofire, recently revealed that the company just got finished with their Series A funding, netting a fresh $14 million investment from participating companies – that “represents a paradigm shift in how technology in this space is funded and developed,” the CEO said in a statement.
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.
Kloepfer stated
Trae Stephens of Founders Fund
I’m previously on record saying that Smart Gun technology is uninvestable – that it would take ‘multiple miracles’ to bring this product to market. The Biofire team has changed my mind. We need novel solutions to address firearm violence, and their technology has the potential to transform firearm safety.
Kloepher explained that he believes the new gun will be ready and released to the public sometime in 2023.
He added that “The Biofire Smart Gun® seamlessly unlocks for the owner and automatically relocks as soon as it leaves the owner’s control, ensuring it remains secure from all others including children and teens. To achieve this, we went back to the drawing board to design a new kind of handgun starting with state-of-the-art biometrics. By empowering gun owners with cutting edge technology, we are creating a better choice when it comes to firearm safety.”
The company says that their team is quite accomplished and experienced, having prior experience in a multitude of noteworthy companies and groups, such as Google, Intel, NASA, Ford Motor Co., Army Futures Command, Michelin, Aimlock, and many others.
The gun itself is programmed to have a biometric skin and finger scanner built into the handle of the pistol, detecting who is holding the gun. If the bio-ID does not much the owner’s biometrics, the gun will not fire.
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I have no idea how well this will fare with the masses, but I know I want zero part of it. Most true gunowners and gun-lovers will never go for this, and I am doubtful any liberals will buy into this concept, and will still cry for all guns to go away.
Moreover, how long would it take for these biometrics to be linked to the grid system, and the powers at be could manually deactivate the guns remotely?
Be that is it may, this still represents the move towards more and more biometric-everything coming down the pike soon.
Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.
Ecclesiastes 9:18
[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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They want the ability to turn off people’s ability to protect themselves when the government decides they need more test subjects for their medical projects, or just to torture. Of course the one’s abducted will be labeled with mental illnesses, criminal records, disabilities, and all sorts of other liable accusations as an excuse to take the victims away from their homes, and many of the new concentration camps shall be the nursing homes, prisons, and insane asylums of the day.
I’ll stick to an old fashioned mechanical gun, thank you.
All these modern smart things are the stupidest smart things I’ve ever seen, and a real example of the stupidity of modernity. Their inventors should be forbidden to think by locking their mind activity with a special smart mechanism.
A smart GUN now? I would rather have a dumb gun ANY TIME, LOL!
A suggestion for Jacob, if you see this? Rather than saying “Be that is it may”, I believe the phrase is actually “Be that AS it may”! Just trying to help, not trying to be a “grammar Nazi”! 😮
Me too, give me a “dumb” gun any day. All it needs is cleaning and ammunition.