US: Regulating Your Revolution Fail For You

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https://tech.slashdot.org/story/16/10/22/0652241/new-smart-guns-will-have-fingerprint-readers
http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-19-year-old-just-built-the-first-fingerprint-reading-smart-gun-1475850207
http://www.computerworld.com/article/3132572/emerging-technology/german-arms-maker-armatix-to-release-second-smart-gun-in-u-s.html

A recent article in the Wall Street Journal described the
International San Francisco Smart Gun Symposium, and the "Mark
Zuckerberg of guns," a Colorado 18-year-old who's developing a gun
which only fires when its owner's fingerprint makes contact with the
pistol grip. But it looks like he'll have competition. Lucas123
writes: Armatix LLC's new iP9 smart gun will go on sale in the U.S. in
mid-2017 and...will have a fingerprint reader that can store multiple
scans like a smartphone. The iP9 is expected to retail for about
$1,365, which is more than twice the price of many conventional 9mm
semi-automatic pistols...
The company's previous product was a smart gun which only fired when
it was within 10 inches of radio waves emanating from its owner's
watch, but they had trouble attracting buyers. Armatix now also hopes
to interest shooting ranges in a gun which only fires when its
built-in RFID system recognizes that it's pointing at a shooting
target.