Friday, August 8, 2014

From the land of great ideas and engineering (You know, the folks who brought us Zyklon B). When some German starts talking about how Americans "must" do something, I get nervous.

German gun designer’s quest for a smarter weapon infuriates U.S. gun rights advocates
“I love Ernst, and his contributions to firearms are incredible,” said Jim Schatz, a gun industry consultant who worked for Mauch at Heckler & Koch. “But he doesn’t understand that the anti-gunners will use this to infringe on a constitutional right. They don’t have a Second Amendment in Germany.”
“Anyone can make a gun or a pistol. But if the potential is here to make it safer, we have to do it. We absolutely must.”

8 comments:

garym said...

All of mine are safe! They sit around fully loaded all day and never cause any problems.

Anonymous said...

Would think that Germans understood the Government monopoly on force?

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Pericles said...

If smart guns were such a great idea, the police would be first in line to buy them, so that a gun could not be taken from an officer and used against him. I'm sure some concerned politician will make smart guns mandatory for law enforcement - it will be worth it, even if it just saves one life....

Sean said...

Actually, the potential to make it safer for the rapist/murdering/thieving government swine to do their slavering work is there. Or don't those Heinies remember the SchutzenStaffel? Naw, I guess not, because old habits die hard.

Anonymous said...

yeah, from the country who's gun laws are the same as when they were enacted..by the new chancellor, Adolf Hitler

Will said...

As long as we have smart gun owners, 'smart guns' will not be needed.

What we DO need, however, is 'smart voters'... 200 million at least! America will not endure without intelligent voting and constitutionally obedient public servants (namely, elected officials)!!!

Paul X said...

"But he doesn’t understand that the anti-gunners will use this to infringe on a constitutional right."

Wrong. The prohibitionists will use this to TRY in infringe the 2nd, but they will fail.

There are *300 million* guns in this country. They won't be turned in because some guy designs a new kind of gun. Not gonna happen. If it did, then we were paper tigers from the beginning, and ought to get ready for our shackles because we would deserve them.

Far from being a disaster, this might actually expand the gun market, significantly. Think of all those potential buyers who might give it a try but worry about leaving their purse somewhere or about their kids getting access to it.

Don't people get tired of playing Chicken Little?

Dakota said...

Any gun that can be rendered a paperweight by an electronic device can be rendered that way by a tyrant with a device to work his will upon you. I would not own such a piece of "collectivist" junk.

Such dumbasses who get old and feeble minded should be relegated to the old folks home and left out of society all together.