"smart gun" from Australia

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alan

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Heard on the 2300 hours newscast(television) mention of the following. The quote is NOT exact, but has the sense of the report.

An Australian company, not identified, has come up with a "smart gun", can only be fired by "authorized user", determined by who is wearing a transponder ring, which sends a signal to something in the gun, that would permit fireing. Supposedly, American gun companies would be interested.

I wonder as to why the Australians, generally nice people so far as I know, don't keep their garbage in their own country. Also, in the event of "power failure", as with dead battery, does this device fail safe, allowing use of gun, or does the lawful owner end up with a paper weight.

Finally, thinking back to when I was a child, a very long time ago, we used to get all manner of "secret decoder rings" in boxes of candy, mostly, as I recall, CarakerJacks, which were a gooey product, something that only a child could like. More importantly, the secret decoder rings we used to get weren't worth the the trouble it took to put them on.

One wonders as to how "worthwhile" this latest crop of "magical rings" might be, and who might be suckered into trying to use them.
 
Personally...I cannot wear any kind of ring...I tend to get the creeping crud.So I do not wear any jewelry of any kind.Only a plastic watch.Besides...all my guns are smart.They only go bang...when I pull the trigger.
 
Since guns are pretty much banned or regulated up the wazoo, how come OZ even has gun related companies? :)

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"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes" RKBA!
 
"Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Mordor where the shadows lie."
-Sauron at Orodruin, c.1600 SA, as told by Professor Tolkien
 
My post on this topic was one of those that got "eaten" by the TFL server :(

Basically, here's the main points:

The "gun" is electronic, with decoder ring as noted. It even has a speech synthesiser chip so it can "talk" to the owner, verifying settings in a female voice.

Purportedly, the rate of fire is 18 000 rpm (yes, that's 18 000) on full singin' and dancin'. (Can you imagine a hi-cap mag for this sucker??)

Can be programmed to fire double taps which, according to the footage shown, leave the barrel before the gun has time to move -- hence they showed double and triple taps cutting a single ragged hole.

It also has some sort of "spray" program (don't ask me). The footage showed three dinner plates suspended in a frame vertically (one above the other). A single pull of the trigger fired three shots: the first one hit the middle plate (point of aim), but the other two hit the top and bottom plates, dead centre, respectively. There was nothing forthcoming as to how this was achieved. But in slo-mo, that seemed to be the sequence.

It appeared to be a 9mm. The handgrip was full of electronic circuitry. From a computer animation, it appears the ammo lies along the top of the barrel and action, in a sort of tube, a la the old Winchester lever action style. But not much was said about that.

I even checked the calendar to make sure it was not April Fool's Day --- but they were deadly serious. Yet there is nothing, zip, in this morning's paper about it.

You can bet your sweet bippie this will never make it into "civilian" hands -- if it even makes it into production at all!!!

B

[This message has been edited by Bruce in West Oz (edited April 05, 2000).]
 
George:

Funny you should say that -- they used footage from Judge Dredd to introduce the piece, while the reporter intoned solemnly beneath the images words to this effect: "It used to be that smart guns belonged only in the realm of science fiction ... not any more ... "

Judge Dredd the movie sucked ... agreed. The comic was far better.

B
 
One good thing about this gun is that it'd really improve
my scores at IPSC ! :D

You should've seen it tripple tap those dinner plates - WOW :)

Fairs fair guys, you sent us that USA guy who heads up our version of
Gun Control Inc. :(

We give you the latest in "Smart" technology.

And on the box....
Batteries NOT included. ;)

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[This message has been edited by HS (edited April 06, 2000).]
 
An update, FWIW:

The gun is made by "Metal Storm" in Oz. If you recall, they made the "machine gun" with the fixed pre-loaded ammo system with a rate of fire in the millions of rounds per minute. (Try typing the name into a search engine.)

It holds seven (??) rounds of proprietary ammo in a fixed, replaceable, pre-loaded "magazine" that does indeed fit along the top of the gun.

It is totally electronic with "no moving parts" [sic] (That's what they said on the radio)

It fires double taps or triple taps with a single trigger pull.

Rate of fire is now claimed to be 60 000 rpm!!

It is for sale only to military or police.

On a personal note -- it's one hell of a n ugly-looking sucker!! Big, bulky and disproportionate!! The grip size and angle don't look too flash, either!!

B
 
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