The Daily News is not done:
“While big-money peddlers of death play dumb, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams shows savvy with a promise to help move bullet-riddled America to the sane adoption of smart guns. Adams says he’ll deliver $1 million from his budget to whichever New York college delivers the most promising plan for a firearm whose trigger can only be pulled by its authorized user — much like the smartphones most of us use every day …”
Introducing the new Google-edition Glock 17, powered by Android-Marshmallow.
Guns are nothing like smart phones.
“… The beep, who’s an ex-police captain, also signed up the NYPD to test prototype high-tech firearms as the winning school develops them — trial runs that Adams hopes will drive smart guns’ adoption by law enforcement and beyond …”
Good. Mandate that the NYPD use them first and see what happens.
“… No measure could more obviously prevent firearms from falling into the wrong hands — of toddlers, of criminals, of madmen, of terrorists. But scared off by boycott threats from the National Rifle Association and other gun cultists, the industry shelved smart-gun development long ago …”
Untrue. People have been trying to make “smart guns” since at least the early 70s. Decades of failure should be an indication there is a flaw in the concept.
“… In picking up where the gun industry fears to tread, Adams joins President Obama, who in his January executive orders on gun safety directed his departments of Defense, Homeland Security and Justice to also sponsor technology research. Brooklyn’s borough president has already succeeded in rousing NRA fanatic-in-chief Wayne LaPierre from his deep, dark cave, to have a spokesperson insist: “We’ve never been against the development of the technology. We’ve just been against the mandated use of it.” …”
Awhile back NRA reviewed the Armatix iP1.
It’s crap.
“…If that’s really true, let’s see the NRA match Adams’ $1 million award.”
It is not Eric’s money, it belongs to the taxpayer. If he really believes in this let him put up his own money to fund a startup. I’d suggest the same to the Daily News, but they’ve been losing money hand over fist already.
I know one thing about this. A couple of guys like “EVIL WRENCH” and I, who have probably some 80 years of combined experience as electro- mechanical / embedded system guys combined with that much firearm experience could design and build a prototype that would put to shame anything that a bunch of foreign visa kids and their commie engineering professor in the university who never touched a gun could come up with. My money would be on the NY rednecks – LOL. I also have my electronics in the basement, a Colchester copy and a Bridgeport in the garage. Also have Autodesk Inventor solid modeling with stress, modal analysis, and dynamic sim.
BTW, modeled an AR bolt locking lug stress at one point and found scary high numbers. Thought the FEM mesh was lying but when I went out on the web, found white papers that it is mostly correct. US military specs replacing them every 6000 (I think, that’s what I remember) rounds cause they start tiny fatigue fractures. They also have new materials, heat treat and shot peening. Be careful if fucking with this stuff (on your NY COMPLIANT) guns. Always check head space when replacing and check them after a lot of shooting. And 5.56 and .223 are NOT the same round OR gun.
Just a sanity check, yes the AR works and is OK. Just scary to think about.