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Maryland Store Will Carry “Smart Gun.”

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Maryland Store Will Carry “Smart Gun.” May Trigger Law Mandating All Handguns In New Jersey Use the Flawed Technology.
Posted by Bob Owens on May 1, 2014 at 7:39 pm
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Andy Raymond of Engage Armament has just stepped in a hornet’s nest… on purpose.

The battle over the nation’s first smart gun has shifted to Maryland, with a Rockville dealer saying he will sell the Armatix iP1 after a California gun store removed the weapon from its shelves to placate angry gun rights activists.

Andy Raymond, the co-owner of Engage Armament, a store known for its custom assault rifles, said selling the handgun was a “really tough decision” after what happened to Oak Tree Gun Club, which was lambasted by gun owners and National Rifle Association members who fear the new technology will be mandated and will encroach on Second Amendment rights.

Critics are claiming that Raymond’s decision to sell the gun in Maryland is going to trigger a law in New Jersey that mandates all handguns in the state use the technology within three years of a smart gun going on sale anywhere in the United States.

He’s pushing back against those claims.

Raymond said he doesn’t want the law to kick in and didn’t think he’d be responsible if it did, because Oak Tree already had the gun for sale. He said the law is not his problem or Armatix’s.

“This is not Armatix screwing over the people of New Jersey,” he said. “It’s the legislature screwing over the people of New Jersey. Bushmaster didn’t screw over the people of Newtown. Adam Lanza did. It’s just disgusting to me to see pro-gun people acting like anti-gunners. What is free if it’s not choice?”

Raymond is entirely right.

Armatix is manufacturing a product that may fail every single magazine, cost 2-3 times as much as some of the most reliable defensive handguns on the planet, and chambered an anemic .22LR cartridge, but it is their right to do so.

Likewise, New Jersey chose their rabidly anti-gun legislature, and will suffer as a result of their decision-making, but it was their right to do so.

It is also Raymond’s right to carry the Armatix pistol in his store, if he chooses to do so.

It’s also the right of Maryland’s gun owners to either continue buying firearms from Engage Armament, their right to protest the store, and their right to let it slide into bankruptcy by refusing to patronize it, if they choose to do so.

God Bless America, and the freedom we have to make our own choices.
 
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To be honest, I want to smart gun.

I have young kids, three of them. And, though I'm trying to teach them gun safety, I'm still not comfortable with having guns within their reach. Yes, my big safes are to protect against theft and such. But my small safe isn't really for that, it's to keep the gun(s) form my kids. They're a hassle to use, and I don't like that I have keep it in one place.

If there was a quick & easy biometric gun (I know, technology not there yet), I'd keep a couple around the house. I'd always have one within reach, yet it would be safe from my kids. If an intruder grabbed one, they'd be fiddling with an inoperable paper weight, while I grabbed a working one. Hell, if the technology really worked and was biometric, I'd probably have a couple pistols and a shotty stashed about my house.

I'm not saying there should be laws mandating safe guns, but I am saying that I'd buy a few of them, if the technology evolves.
 
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The best "smart gun" I have seen to have around kids is an unloaded 1911. Young kids aren't strong enough to move the slide, teens might be able to but not anybody younger. I have seen adult women that can't cycle one. If you can't move the slide you can't chamber a round and shoot it.
 
#6 ·
I bet that business owner deciding to sell that gun has a hard time selling his others. Hope he can stay in business (NOT) selling just the one.
 
#8 ·
I'm gonna buy one... simply for collector purposes. May be a piece of history.
 
#9 ·
Smart guns would open a whole can of worms.

Sure governments would love them to be the law of the land. Then the government and it's agencies could also mandate the technology to have a backdoor for them disable them in the interest of public safety when they felt it was needed. Only problem with that is again that would only affect law abiding gun owners as the criminals will not be using smart guns.
 
#13 ·
Yep. We gun owners owe it to ourselves to vote with our wallets and put these retailers out if business. Otherwise every gun will be made with that technology as well as micro stamping and whatever else the gun control freaks want.
 
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I would think that will turn off all of this guys customers. If a guy is in the business of selling firearms then naturally he should have the same feelings about gun control issues as his customers. It seems like financial suicide for his business. I really hope people stop shopping there to make the same point as the other gun store that considered selling it. This is one of the few ways gun owners can make a statement in a big way.
 
#14 ·
I really don't see the big deal of a gun store carrying the "smart gun".

If you don't want it, don't buy it.

This no different than censorship. This is like saying we want freedom of speech, and want book stores to sell us books that we want, but boycotting a bookstore for selling a certain book.

We want gun stores to be able to sell us guns we want, but then we all freak out and don't want stores to sell a certain gun?

I don't know. There seems to be a hypocrisy here.
 
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