Unreliable and slow? Newsweek imagines a gun that works like your smartphone

Vice President Joe “Buy a Shotgun” Biden recently capped off a meeting of governors, mayors, attorneys general and others who gathered at the White House to formulate a strategy to reduce gun violence while upholding the Second Amendment (“whether we like it or not,” Biden clarified).

One expert-free panel discussion was devoted exclusively to smart gun technology, the subject of a recent article in Newsweek.

Imagine a gun that functions like your smartphone https://t.co/qFqSfqhjBe

— Newsweek (@Newsweek) June 1, 2016

Though Newsweek’s article covers the government’s push behind smart guns, it makes no mention whatsoever of just what makes a gun “smart” or what technologies are employed. That component of the story is confined to the tweet asking readers to imagine a gun that works like a smartphone.

https://twitter.com/hoytag/status/737808766976942081

https://twitter.com/GlomarResponder/status/737807740781928449

https://twitter.com/Firriolo/status/737803765697421312

Unreliable and slow?

— RustBelt_Nobody (@BGWhite42) June 1, 2016

Only works in certain areas and breaks if you barely drop it? https://t.co/8YuqLAHvtu

— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) June 1, 2016

https://twitter.com/CharlieJEgan/status/737802801280094209

https://twitter.com/MrDonCarpenter/status/737805536171724801

There isn’t a smart gun market because no one wants guns that don’t reliably work when you need to defend yourself https://t.co/H46mhwtOvV

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) June 1, 2016

Unreliable and slow? Newsweek imagines a gun that works like your smartphone

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