Colorado-based Biofire Tech is taking orders for a smart gun enabled by facial-recognition technology, the latest development in personalized weapons that can only be fired by verified users https://t.co/6TISTmuFEg pic.twitter.com/tkJS0QnWeO
— Reuters (@Reuters) April 21, 2023
The second you put down the Smart Gun, it instantly relocks. Live from the Safety and Testing Facility at #Biofire HQ, we dive into the #safety features of the #BiofireSmartGun.
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— Biofire (@BiofireUSA) April 21, 2023
This is a plan to make it so you can’t use your gun if you say nigger on the internet or lose Fishtank.
Colorado-based Biofire Tech is taking orders for a smart gun enabled by facial-recognition technology, the latest development in personalized weapons that can only be fired by verified users.
But in a sign of the long, challenging road that smart guns have faced, a prototype twice failed to fire when demonstrated for Reuters this week. Company founder and Chief Executive Kai Kloepfer said the software and electronics have been fully tested, and the failure was related to the mechanical gun which was made from pre-production and prototype parts.
At other times during the demonstration the weapon fired successfully and the facial-recognition technology appeared to function.
Biofire’s smart gun
Biofire’s gun can also be enabled by a fingerprint reader, one of several smart gun features designed to avoid accidental shootings by children, reduce suicides, protect police from gun grabs, or render lost and stolen guns useless.
The first consumer-ready versions of the 9mm handgun could be shipped to customers who pre-ordered as soon as the fourth quarter of this year, with the standard $1,499 model possibly available by the second quarter of 2024, Biofire said.
This is total bullshit.
We need plastic guns, that can’t be traced, that can be made by anyone.
We don’t need people controlling our guns.
Insofar as “this is not who we are” is a statement with a meaning, this is that situation.
Kai Kloepfer, CEO and founder of Biofire Technologies