oh boy I feel like today's topic was
specifically made for me to cover
because it lies in The Crossroads of
device security
firearms and corporations implementing
ineffective safety measures to try and
protect you so buckle up buttercups
because today we're gonna talk about the
bio fire smart gun that's right kids we
put Biometrics in your pistol just like
in the James Bond movie so this gun
comes with a fingerprint reader and it
has a backup face scanner that's located
just below the rear sight so that way
only authorized people are able to fire
the gun and their sensors all over the
grip of the gun so it can tell when it
leaves your hands if you drop it or
somebody takes it from you it's going to
immediately lock so that it can't be
used against you and hell why don't we
just go ahead and and read what is
written at the top of the website
smartgun.com it's always locked it's
safe from unauthorized use the nine
millimeter biofire smart gun locks the
moment it leaves your hand and cannot be
fired unless an authorized user picks it
back up your smart gun only Fires for
the people you choose so your firearm
can never cause a tragic outcome in the
hands of a child criminal or anyone else
so we're only two sentences into the
front page of this company's website and
already biofire is telling us that they
are thinking of the children boy
corporations are doing a lot of that
these days think of the children really
should be its own logical fallacy at
this point I guess it is already just an
appeal to a motion fallacy with some
extra steps attached but this excuse
this think of the children excuse is
constantly being used to take away
people's rights or in this case peddle a
mostly useless invention and it's a very
potent excuse too I actually know a guy
that I was discussing this smart gun
with who is a firearm owner and has a
three-year-old daughter and he said that
he thinks this might be a good weapon
for him to keep on his nightstand so
let's really examine this idea more
closely would a smart gun prevent a
tragic outcome in the hands of your
child
there are several tragic scenarios that
I can think of with a kid getting a gun
but the only one that I think Biometrics
would really prevent would be the kids
shooting themselves or someone else and
that's a bit of a double-edged sword
when you think about it because if your
child is alone at home and someone
breaks in
now they can't use your gun to defend
themselves all they can really do is
point it at the bad guy and hope that
that bluff makes him tuck tailed and run
biometric security doesn't do anything
to prevent the tragic outcomes like your
child getting in trouble for bringing
your gun to school sure he can't
actually shoot anyone with it but most
of the time when kids bring a gun to
school that's not even what they're
really doing or planning to do they're
you know just showing it off to people
like there were even a couple of kids
that got in trouble when I was in school
for doing that but the thing is if the
kid gets caught the school
administrators and the police are not
going to care that he's not authorized
and can't physically shoot the gun it
doesn't even matter if a kid brings a
fake gun to school they're gonna get in
the same amount of trouble and so will
you as the kids parent and the
authorized owner of this firearm uh same
thing if your kid were to use this gun
to try and rob somebody like some people
do with fake guns it's not going to make
a difference to the police or to to the
person that your kid is trying to rob
just because they can't shoot their gun
doesn't mean that the robbery victim
doesn't have a gun that they can shoot
and they would be legally justified in
defending themselves because I mean this
is even a real gun it's just your kid's
not authorized to shoot it but the
victim doesn't know that so there's
really only one very specific tragic
scenario that this gun can protect your
kid from but
honestly I think educating your children
about firearms and making sure that
they're mature enough to handle them is
going to not only protect your kid from
harming themselves but protect your kid
from all of those other tragic scenarios
that I just listed
I got my first gun safety lesson and I
shot my first gun when I was only six
years old and a lady that I was
discussing this smart gun with recently
said that she learned to shoot when she
was five I honestly believe that once
your kids are old enough to really start
going through your things and things
like child proof locks and baby gates
aren't enough to keep them out of your
firearms and especially once they're old
enough to be left at home alone you the
parent should start training your kids
on the location of the weapons and how
to use the weapons that are in your
house so locking your gun with
Biometrics is clearly not a substitute
for good parenting
but what about keeping criminals from
using the gun okay that's the second
bad tragic outcome that they list here
so this protection actually does seem a
little bit more realistic to me because
a gun is the great force equalizer it
gives a 90 year old 90 pound woman a
fighting chance against a 200 pound male
attacker that's on drugs but there's
always a risk that a gun could be taken
from you and then used against you
so clearly this gun mitigates that risk
at least it makes getting shot with your
own gun impossible a bad guy can and
probably would still pistol whip you a
couple of times with your smart gun but
that's probably a lot better than
getting shot and maybe the Biometrics in
this gun can stop bad guys from using it
if they steal the gun and run off with
it but that really depends on how
difficult it is to remove the biometric
security from this firearm because at
the end of the day the Biometrics are
electronic but the parts that make a gun
shoot are all mechanical so it might be
possible for a criminal to just modify
the gun after the theft and then turn it
back into a dumb gun that anybody can
use now to bio fires credit
well there's a couple of things I can
give them to this credit uh one it might
be more difficult for a criminal to take
it from you because the size of this gun
and kind of the way that they advertise
it makes it seem like it's something
that you're not going to carry around
with you it's not something you're going
to carry around on a holster it's
probably something that you're gonna
leave at home inside of the dock like
this so maybe that reduces the
likelihood of a criminal actually
stealing it from you or taking it out of
your hands in the first place and if a
criminal does steal this gun I suspect
modifying it would be pretty difficult
because it's a brand new completely
proprietary design it's not like they
just wired a fingerprint reader up to a
Glock every part of this gun the trigger
system the slide even the magazines had
to be custom made for this particular
gun which is great for security but
again it's a double-edged sword uh
having a unique proprietary design is
really bad for maintenance if you run
into issues with this firearm you aren't
just going to be able to take it to your
local gunsmith and get it fixed the same
day or in about a week he's not going to
have the parts for this thing laying
around he's going to have to order them
from the company and that's assuming
that your local gunsmith is even willing
to work on this in the first place
because this is because this is a hybrid
electronic and mechanical device the
electronics knowledge might be outside
of your local gunsmith skill set and
good luck finding someone who's good
with guns and electronics because in my
experience those skills are like oil and
water they almost never seem to mix now
even though I think smart guns are
really dumb this one is at least not
quite as stupid as some smart guns that
have come before it because this gun has
absolutely no wireless capability so you
can't just remotely hack into it and
authorize yourself or deauthorize the
owner like that smart gun that we saw at
Defcon a few years back the only way
that you can access the internal
computer of this gun is through a USB
port so it might be possible for a
criminal to jailbreak this gun if they
steal it but we're probably just gonna
have to wait until next year when this
gun comes out to see if that's actually
possible but because there's no wireless
access there's also no risk of biofire
or the government remotely disabling
your gun unless of course they use emps
those would break your gun because it
would damage the electronics as would
the batteries corroding or running out
or your hands being wet or dirty or
covered by gloves all of that's going to
cause the fingerprint sensor not to work
and then if your face is covered or if
it's dark enough the face ID part might
not work you see this is the real
problem that I have with adding more
technology to guns or at least adding
more technology to the firing system of
these weapons because if any of that
Tech fails the weapon isn't going to be
able to fire except now you don't just
have to depend on Fairly reliable
mechanical Tech in order for your gun to
work you got to rely on electronics that
can overheat or get too cold or get
ruined from condensation static
electricity dirt these are all things
that might keep your gun from firing
this company is out here building a
computer into their gun but the rest of
us haven't even fully settled on the
debate between pistols with slides and
revolvers because even though revolvers
are older Tech slower to reload and
don't hold nearly as much ammo they
still have some advantages like if the
slide of your pistol gets pushed back
for example like might happen in close
quarters combat if you got a really put
your you know pistol into somebody
because there's no room for it
the gun's not gonna fire and a revolver
would in fact if a revolver is pressed
up into somebody it's gonna do a whole
lot more damage uh because the bullet
isn't going to lose any energy to air
friction and some people also say that
revolvers are less likely to jam because
obviously they can't stove pipe or
double feed but in my experience
revolvers are maybe less likely to jam
but I would say that if you do get a jam
it is a little bit more complicated to
clear because you can't just tap it and
rack it like you would with a striker
fire pistol now I'll give biofire a
little bit more credit here because even
though this gun costs three times as
much as my Sig and in my opinion is only
half as effective and is too big to
practically carry inside of your
waistband at least biofire isn't trying
to Market themselves like Sig does or
like a Glock does by acting like this is
a gun for everybody they're targeting
specific markets people with children as
you saw and I also think it's implied
that this is a gun that you're going to
keep at home because I didn't see
anywhere on their website where they're
advertising holsters and again there's
about the size of full-size Glock so
it's not even really practical to
conceal but
I think that there might be a better
market for this gun because the cost of
this gun might also make it a bit of an
issue for families purchasing because
like I said this costs three times as
much as my Sig P320 but I also don't see
a place to mount a light or an optic for
this gun it does have a built-in laser
which is okay but for home defense if I
had to pick between having a flashlight
or laser on my gun I would definitely
want the flashlight so for the person
out there who's thinking of getting this
gun and has no gun experience you should
just know that you can get a good new
nine millimeter pistol that's what this
is as well it's chambered in nine
millimeter you can get that a laser
flashlight combo to add to your pistol
you could get 50 rounds of jacketed
hollow point which is your self-defense
ammo a thousand rounds of full Metal
Jacket that's going to be your training
ammo for you to use at the range and you
would still have
400 to 800 dollars left to spend on
training with a professional that can
show you the proper grip the proper
stance they can run scenarios with you
and you know just teach you how to shoot
and have competency with your firearm
because it's not as intuitive as you
might think especially if you're only
knowledge about guns comes from movies
and video games honestly the best use
case for this gun and the way that I
would try to Market it if I worked at
biofire
would be to get police and armed
security who might lose their guns or
get them taken from them by a bad guy to
use these in their everyday duties
because the armorers for those kinds of
positions they're going to order these
guns in bulk it's not like they're gonna
pay two thousand dollars just for one of
them they're gonna you know get a bulk
deal so hopefully that's going to
mitigate the cost a bit and Hell the
police really don't care about costs
because they're using taxpayer money
anyway and they might also be able to
get a bunch of parts for these guns so
that might make in-house maintenance of
these Firearms actually viable instead
of having to send it to the company to
work on it uh the bio fire smart gun is
slightly larger than the Glock 22 which
is already one of the most popular law
enforcement pistols in the United States
so if anyone's actually going to carry
these around with them it's probably
going to be in an outside the waistband
holster which might tempt people to take
it from you but of course they won't be
able to use it if they take it from you
but even if law enforcement or private
security companies wanted to use these
good luck with getting your officers to
actually use them because the
implication of assigning this weapon to
someone is that you're too weak or
you're too stupid to be trusted with a
big boy gun if you walked into the range
with this or if you clocked into your
duty shift with one of these on your
belt
some people are probably going to laugh
and Snicker at you which again going
back to the idea of this being marketed
to the parent of a small child that's
probably not super knowledgeable with
guns
is that person realistically going to
take their pistol with training wheels
on it to the range and endure all the
Gun Bros mocking at them long enough to
actually become competent with this
firearm or will the embarrassment factor
of this firearm just contribute to its
owners doing what most gun owners
unfortunately do which is buy the thing
and then just let it sit unloaded in a
drawer somewhere to collect dust I guess
we're gonna have to see next year when
the world's first well-received smart
gun hits the market but let me know what
you guys think in the comments below are
you excited for this gun do you think my
criticism of this gun is off or maybe
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