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yagotme

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8. Don't oppose research.
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 12:42 PM
Jan 2017

I oppose the legislation (in NJ, I believe), that REQUIRES, after 5 years after introduction of a "workable" smart gun into the market, that only smart guns may be sold. All that research costs money, and I'm sure the researchers would like to recoup the money they invested into this project, so it is highly likely that the technology will be considerably more expensive for a smart gun than a dumb one. Remember plasma TV's, and the thousands of $ they used to cost? Took a good while before the price dropped down so average Joe could afford one. Imagine mandating everyone buying a plasma before the price could drop to a reasonable level? I like the competition idea, those guys put a lotta rounds downrange. Good way to test battery life, sensitivity of electronics to recoil, etc. A gun is a tool, and a tool that doesn't work is useless. More than, if it means trusting your life to it and it doesn't perform due to some overengineered whizbang gadget that failed, where the plain jane model will work.

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