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user-inactivated  ·  3708 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Can 'smart' guns curtail gun violence?

link fixed. sorry, Slashdot has a funky mobile interface.

anyway, accidental killings by children or people who aren't supposed to have the gun are better prevented by things like not storing guns loaded, storing them disassembled, or simple trigger locks. these methods are cheap, can be used with any gun, and are also less susceptible to hacking.

mishandling accidents are a different beast altogether that should be remedied by firearm training because a smart gun can't prevent most of those kinds of accidents anyway. and for the given example of disabling the weapon when the magazine is ejected, the gun doesn't need to be "smart".