Silicon Valley startup unveils Internet-connected smart guns for cops

"But gun rights advocates, like the National Rifle Association, say smart guns could limit Second Amendment rights."

As in, introduction of "smart guns" will limit or eliminate sales of normal guns in New Jersey, and it's been seriously proposed in California last year, and has in the past elsewhere.

Needless to say, the police are always exempted from the laws.

Needless to say, gun owners (forget about the NRA, at most it's the people they inform) will boycott anyone touching this technology. As we've seen in the latest iteration with a German company.

What also should not need saying is that the founders of this company are not in touch with the gun market. Not a good sign, but maybe they'll learn. But it doesn't help them to lie about "being the leader in firearms safety technologies for law enforcement".

No, that would be the holster manufacturers that make ones that make it hard for an assailant to grab a gun, which is one of the greatest threats a uniformed police officer faces.

I skimmed some of the article's comments, and someone mentioned that in a hot area an officer friend of his frequently had to pull his service pistol as a threat. I suspect that like civilians, police threaten with their guns a lot more than they fire them. Having to explain why each time you pulled your gun ... they're not going to like that.

Or let me put it this way: will putting our police in a high tech Panopticon solve the real problems with them? Will it do more than adjust them a little at the margin? Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? As in, who will be passing judgement on the data these guns will be producing? How often does the law enforcement-judicial complex really police itself?

Frankly, I'm as happy about this as I am about cameras on police officers. it should dramatically lower abuse of authority.