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Smart Gun Technology: A History of Promise, Politics, and Persistent Problems

admin · 2026-03-16T23:04:04.447Z

Spent some time going down the smart gun rabbit hole this week — not because I'm a convert, but because the history is genuinely more interesting than the headlines suggest. The politics buried the engineering story for a long time. The statute was written as an incentive: once any smart gun became commercially available anywhere in the United States, New Jersey dealers would eventually be required to sell only smart guns. The intent was to push the market forward. The effect was the opposit...

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Smart Gun Technology: A History of Promise, Politics, and Persistent Problems

A smart gun—also called a personalized firearm—is any firearm that incorporates technology to restrict operation to one or more authorized users. The core idea is straightforward: the gun works for you, and for nobody else. In practice, that idea has

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