Is It Possible to Build a Smarter Gun?

[Music] America is a gun culture it always has been today I am carrying a nine-millimeter ak-47 for different SIG's that I carry from time to time so I like all four of them with an estimated 260 to 300 million guns in the national gun stock today firearms aren't going anywhere the NRA has led the fight time and time again to protect our fundamental freedom and it would appear the political will to craft robust nationwide gun control legislation remains dead in the water [Music] but with an epidemic of mass shootings tonight we remain a city in pain and gun accidents devastating communities nationwide a small movement seeks to change the very technology at the heart of guns yet the players behind this movement to create a smarter gun are blocked in every turn have you received any threats oh yeah of course and this is the story of why Nicholas was a wonderful boy there's kind he was funny he was very cultural what sort of year-old kid do you know that likes Tarkovsky movies you know how you tell your children to be kind to others and befriend bullied kids but you never know what they're doing it and fortunately the way I found out he was is after he got killed I get received a lot of letters about it 12 year old Nicholas Nam can was accidentally shot and killed by a friend in December 2010 since that day his mother Oksana Nam c'n has become the driving force behind Nicholas's law a bill requiring the safe storage of firearms in New York State we never owned guns and never hunted and to me it was always that a no-brainer okay maybe even if you do it's locked up you know up until this happened to us that was basically what we thought and we never thought to ask who would think that you're sending your child to a play date and you have to find out there was a gunner house do you know what kind of gun was used it was a Ruger nine-millimeter semi-automatic captain was it secured no it wasn't it was fully loaded and in just sort of a soft rock Oxana hopes Nicholas's law will put a dent in the approximately 33,000 people fatally shot in the United States every year but there is a potential technological solution known as a smart gun proponents sake prevent future tragedies like the Nam khun's and that it could even be more effective than a law when it comes to averting suicides and accidental killings yet the handgun as we know it remains a piece of mechanical technology that has skirted an era of rapid innovation on almost everything else from cars to phones to kitchen appliances has been computerized the question is how come you can't find a smart gun anywhere it's a double action only so what happens is when you draw the gun out all you have to do is pull the trigger there's no buttons bells or whistles on it it's Michael Timlin is the owner operator of a gun store shooting range and gun training center he swears by the time-tested simplicity of the modern firearm we want the gun to be as vowed about as easy as possible so then when the gun is used we don't have any issues with it what's wrong with hundreds of years of gun ownership it's not the epidemic that people like to believe we're living in a perception to design the ranges of all hot eyes and ears please we're bombarded constantly with the negatives we tuned into the news every night and what do we watch shoot shot kill shoot shoot shoot we don't see the good sides anybody that's anti-gun they should feel very grateful that there are people who have guns out there because if you're standing in the mall and a guy comes out and he starts to hurt people and of civilian with a firearm shows up and there's somebody there that will help you defend your life do you sell any smart guns in this shop there is no such thing as a smart gun we cannot put a device or anything on a firearm that would allow it to become smarter but there just might be a way a smart gun is a user authenticated firearm that is a gun that only fires in the hands of approved users due to a biometric like a fingerprint reader or a magnetic or radio frequency identification proximity device like a ring or a bracelet it's a technological innovation that has not gone unnoticed in the halls of the White House if we can set it up so you can't unlock your phone unless you got the right fingerprint why can't we do the same thing for our guns but many pro-gun Americans like Michael Timlin aren't having it if there is a device of any kind that would be put onto a firearm in the defense of your life and it fails then there is no use to have that device it just will not work so there's nothing that they can do a smart gun technology that would convince me that would be good this sentiment is echoed by major gun lobbying groups like the National Rifle Association and the National Shooting Sports Foundation at some point this technology is probably going to be pushed on our throats listen let's be let's be honest the government at some point in time is going to try that is a very frightening notion to a guy like myself or anybody who's a gun owner with that in mind we're off to one of the biggest gun collections in the world that just so happens to belong to the US government m4 semi-automatic shotgun choose 12-gauge all right it is loaded we're in the gun range at the ATF's national firearm reference vault we come in here to test firearms that we get in criminal cases for import evals or any kind of testing that we have to do here whoa we're meeting with earl griffith chief of the atf firearms and ammunition technology division handle that see how it feels it's a good conversation piece he walks us through the ATS massive reference library Chuck Norris and others you know they have guns like this and now these are actually a machine gun which holds just about every type of gun there is you know we have approximately 19,000 items in here this gun is probably worth 40 50 $1000 we have a lot domestically made farms as well as guns from all around the world that fits you very well Brian just good yeah it was real good maybe we'll get a chance to shoot some of those later why is the diversity of guns so mind-boggling yet technologically they've been pretty unchanging for a long time oh I think the early designers got it right when you're in a room full of thousands of firearms you realize just how little gun tech has evolved 1911 this very design is still produced today Glocks sawed-off shotguns tommy guns the fundamental inner workings of these and just about every other gun are more or less the same a user pulls a trigger that causes a mechanical firing pin to strike a primer this creates an explosive chemical reaction that sends a projectile be it a cannonball a rocket or a bullet out of the guns barrel downrange that basic design is true for all firearms there you have it yes but I think it was gonna do that yeah that's because firearms since their inception have been strictly mechanical devices making them one of the few things unfazed by the electronics revolution those designs have not changed over the years but yet they've been perfected with different materials and just a little bit of tweaking here and there but most guns are very mechanical there's not a lot of moving parts on them so whenever you have less moving parts they're gonna be probably more reliable this dedication to simplicity has meant firearm innovation tends to be cosmetic or defiantly low-tech this is actually a firearm inside you load it up and then you squeeze this part and it fires this looks like a tire irons but when you take it apart you load it with a round of ammunition it's called a slam fire pen guns did actually will fire like a 22 round of ammunition and there's a will there's a way mmm-hmm if it rains you know put it up and you stay dry but it also is a firearm yeah so throughout the years there's been a lot of different innovations kind of like if you build it someone will buy know these are authenticated smart cuz I'm not seeing anything like that no we have no smart guns in here there's very few smart guns that have been produced and put on the market and so it's going to take industry or independent people out there to want to perfect this technology to get in into our as we know traditional guns everybody's always interested in safety but you have to look at safety at what cost and at what price the path to market for smart guns has been a long one that's repeatedly headed that end if you were using as a carry gun you'd have to stop and go this gun must be unlocked through a code it's too slow in fact a pair of pioneering American gun manufacturers coordinated with the US government to design a smart gun and it almost sunk both companies it is time for Congress to pull the trigger on legislation that will truly make guns safer in 1997 Colt a firearms company that's been around since the Civil War and helped popularize the revolver announced it was prototyping a user authenticated smart gun this gun is now communicating with its transponder the transponder is communicating back with the gun and I can see it on the news led to major blowback from Colts loyal customer base triggering a grassroots boycott after months of criticism Colt abruptly pulled the plug on the project in the attempt to recover the company's reputation in 2001 gun manufacturers Smith & Wesson faced a number of municipal and federal lawsuits over gun violence so the company cut a deal with the Clinton administration under the agreement Smith & Wesson will include locking devices and other safety features and will develop smart guns that can be fired only by the adults who owned them like Colt Smith & Wesson faced tremendous opposition an ensuing boycott turned the company into a gun industry pariah Smith & Wesson faced a multimillion-dollar drop in value that year and was forced to lay off 15% of its workforce before an eventual sale needless to say Smith & Wesson smart gun didn't make it out of the lab either meanwhile back in the ATF fault we see cannons RPGs world war ii era machine guns a k's a ARS Glocks 3d printed liberators 1911's this thing so I've called street sweeper all manner of low-tech lethal innovations even a goddamn briefcase gun so you're carrying it along and and shoots out here and then you're you know and yet no smart guns yeah yeah so if you you build it you know they'll buy type thing you know a smart gun some critics out there would say that we have the technology and would work I'll tell you that we don't think the technology is there yet so as of right now this is what state of the art looks like a finely tuned AR platform like this hk416 represents the pinnacle of traditional gun innovation but that doesn't mean there aren't people out there working to disrupt this largely static or her take the guy who designed the very gun hydra shot toast hey coolers hallelujah I appreciate everybody Ernst Mouse is a gun legend known throughout the industry for his work with renowned German arms manufacturer heckler & koch or agent k to do what you say and to stand for what you do it's not so easy that's the reason why I have such a broad thank the hk416 assault rifle is what Mao is perhaps best known for its a standard armament for US Special Forces and has gained worldwide popularity as the gun that allegedly killed Osama bin Laden how do you feel when people call you a sort of a rock star of the gun industry I never feel as a rock star in there's a legend I a normal man who did his chopper during his life [Music] now is in DC looking for partners to help with this decades-long quest to build and popularize the perfect smart gun what inspired you to start looking at smart gun technology an accident in the United States where six years old young boy killed his friend also a six years boy was the gun from H&K it's a story that hits close to home in households across America what can you tell me about smart guns smart guns would be a logical choice for a family if they choose to have a weapon for protection this wouldn't prevent you for protecting your family but it would prevent accidental deaths of children who very curious they're going to find a sting no matter what a lot people would like to buy such kind of a gun to protect their homes and I see a big potential here as a society what do we stand to lose by not implementing intelligent gun technology thousands and thousands more of lives of people of children and the idea and technology is available now LF H and K in 2005 to join our Maddox where he led development on its signature smart gun the IP one the gun is implanted with an electronic chip that allows it to be fired only if the shooter is wearing a companion watch into which a PIN number has been entered the arm addicts IP one was Mouse baby and the first ever smart gun brought to market but if the watch is taken further than 10 inches away from the gun a red light will come on and the weapon won't fire but when it launched the response was less than positive we have no inventory and when the IP one was first sold in the US the reaction was even more severe now left arm addicts in 2015 over what he cites as a difference of opinion with the company's CEO but he's still working toward a smart gun future the time is now right people should start to support the idea it will take time and I will not give up if it's not this country I tried to find them other partners to to make it happen yeah despite his optimistic Drive Malc is a veteran in the twilight of his career if the smart gun is going to move forward it needs fresh blood to see it through every smart gun that we've seen so far has been pretty bad so this is our most recent prototype of the bio fire smart gun in this case this is actually a modified Glock but when we get to the point of actually manufacturing these we'll be creating our own custom firearms Kai Klepper has been working on a smart gun prototype since he was 15 years old today he runs bio fire technologies a smart gun startup from his MIT dorm room a lot of people definitely know that this way but you know which is awesome like I you know I'm I'm proud of what I'm working on I think it's you know it's a worthwhile sort of pursuit obviously but it's also not sort of thing that I like bringing out the first time I meet somebody as Kai develops this smart gun prototype he keeps up on public perception and the competition the IP one in my opinion was not a smart gun so why not the the concept in and of itself it just didn't make any sense the gun is a 22 caliber which is like a Boy Scout round it's not a round that anybody ever has used for self-defense there were a lot of design decisions behind it that just didn't seem to take into account the needs of gun owners as simple as the colors on the back of the of the grip it was a very standard green as is unlocked and red is locked the only issue is that that means the exact opposite in the gun world if you look at any firearm that's built in the last hundred years that has a safety on it when the red dot is showing that means hot unsafe ready to fire you know they have a wristband but you have to type a pin code into the wristband and you have to keep both the watch and the gun charged it's not a usable gun it doesn't work to serve the purposes that people you need use their firearms for and so honestly from the very very beginning I've made it clear that I'm trying to work with gun owners what was the impetus behind wanting to start doing this sort of research I got started with smart guns during my sophomore year of high school when I was 15 I was looking for an engineering science fair project that maybe had a little bit more like societal impact and so this was also about two months after the Aurora theater shooting and I'm from Boulder Colorado which is about a half an hour away from Aurora and so I actually started out not with how do I build a smart gun but how can i address this problem of mass shootings and as I started to do research around mass shootings I realized that we have a mass shooting every single day in the United States it just doesn't all happen in one place and so we don't really hear about these single gun accidents and gun deaths but they cause just as much damage as any mass shooting women after I started doing some that research I switched from working on mass shootings to working on accidental gun deaths and suicides not only do I think there are a bigger problem but they're one that lends itself much more readily to sort of an engineering solution though KY can't have his prototype on campus he has many parts that composed the internal workings of the smart gun this is basically one of our our current circuit boards the brains of the operation a lot of ways these are a few of our fingerprint sensors and when the user picks the handgun up the finger naturally wins on the sensor and that's how we start off the process of recognizing the users fingerprint basically and these are a few of the batteries that we're using you know they're they're pretty small and thin overall it's it's actually it's not anywhere near as complicated as it looks so we've got you know we've got the fingerprint sensor and circuit board everything on this side you know the the battery is along the other side a traditional firearm of this style it has what's known as a double stack magnetic we sort of switch that to a single stack magazine so that reduces the number of rounds but allows us to fit sort of all the you know electronics and everything when you sort of naturally grip the handgun your middle finger is gonna land right on that sensor there's no like swiping or pushing buttons or any additional movement that's required on the part of the user they just pick it up and it works I honestly expect whether it's us or somebody else to see smart guns pretty prevalent in the next five or ten years and honestly further out from that 10 20 years if we still have guns which hopefully we do I all these markets but it's this sort of Technol optimism that makes pro-gun Americans like Michael Timlin very nervous do you think there is still some sort of consumer demand across the country for this technology is there consumer demand for it no actually if you look it's talking to any true gun owner there would be no demand for it at all a matter of fact it would be the opposite this is not something we want so you'd never sell a smart gun I wouldn't allow a smart gun within a hundred mile radius of this facility ever but one was on its way courtesy of Jonathan Mossberg owner of aigun technologies Mossberg happens to be in town for an informal summit of smart gun developers so we asked him to swing by Mike shop he's bringing along di gun a personalized shotgun that only fires when the user wears a special magnetic tag in the form of a ring I think this technology has a significant use in certain specific situations and I'd like to see it to go to that next level where people who choose to buy it choose to buy it not are forced to buy it Kai's attending the same conference so we invite him along as well Michael mr. Jonathan do you think both of your respective technologies could someday be brought to market and appear in shops like Michaels here definitely you know there are people who want to have a firearm their house but are afraid to you know rightfully because of the possibility of their children getting a hold of it even when it's properly secured and you know that one time they forget if there's people willing to buy it that means there's people who are willing to sell it I'm just waiting for the consumers to start demanding it and when they're comfortable with it when they know about it when they test it when they know what's reliable distributors will be carrying it manufacturers will be making it and it'll be an option only an option and if they want to buy it great if they don't that's fine too I do believe that you guys are onto something but we start with good intentions and we wind up walking into gun bans and new technology always leads into gun bans you take your technology and the government gets their hands on it or somebody gets a hands on and say hey this and we're using it for good and then it becomes a mandatory type situation I am dead set against mandates I want government kaido's to to keep government keep their paws out of this stuff if New York makes this mandated I will stamp on the side of my box not for sale in the socialist state of New York if it didn't work who's got the liability with this technology I could sit here right now and give you a thousand more deaths your your fingerprint technology well it doesn't work without a finger and that happens yeah and your ring technology doesn't work without that ring I look at your your shotgun without that ring for me it's a stick the technology needs for me to be more foolproof that's really the direction I'm going but you will sell them a 1940's vintage Arisaka literally 30 percent failure rate when I pull the trigger on some of those things so we can't say that what you're only gonna sell them a hundred percent reliable stuff yet I want my technology to be a thousand times better than that and I think Kai does too and that's what we're eating we're trying to achieve that maybe one day hopefully in the future there will be a perfect world for all of this we all head down to the range to try the eye gun for ourselves okay we designed it to be seamless in other words you don't want to think in a stressful situation you don't want to have to do something different than you're already trained to do pick it up and shoot it if somebody takes it away from you it doesn't work round in the chamber closed now fires can I give it a shot sure okay so grab it with two hands finger off the trigger and slide the forum forward that's it so no head put it up your shoulder pull the trigger nope nothing happens okay so I'll give you the ring slide the forearm forward there you go yep here that's off click right there okay we're red fire pump it back all right it's merkins well I don't call it that but what do you call it it's an eye gun but there's multiple technologies out there and we want to make sure that we don't all get lumped in together I'll give you hearing back thanks despite the demonstration Michael remains unconvinced I have two children two years old and five years old I can guarantee you they will never shoot anyone with my gun because I'm responsible parent if you take a gun and you leave it on the coffee table and you have a toddler running around they're gonna get it if you take poison and you leave it on the table your toddler's gonna eat it should we ban everything on earth because you a parent is too dumb to protect their cells from giving a child a gun so here comes the smart gun people trying to fix that problem fix what fix through pity we can't fix stupid I say this all the time to a lot of people who listen to me stupid is something that we cannot fix smart gun or not educate people you want to do something one thing you want to do some sort of a gun type thing make make an app where educates people press a button this is what happens with guns this is what happens with this this is how it works educate yourself a smart gun technology is nowhere near the answer for this what's been wrong with the way it's been [Music] this was his last school picture right before he was killed this is September of 2010 it was the last picture we have of him are you always going to remember him this way happy child good friend was the last day of school December 22nd he was called by a friend of his and it was invited over for a playdate around I guess six he called me and he says mom can I stay over so I said all right he just started taking on sabai he had like a slight ear infection going so my husband said why don't I Drive it over to him so when my husband got there there was a bunch of police around the house and they told him that Nicholas was shocked and um so he called me at home and he said um I don't know how to tell you this honey but he was shot this is shot how when where you know later we found out that they were left alone in the house at some point and his friend went and took his father's gun and he shot him and then um when we got to the Albany Medical Center a neurologist came out and pretty much told us that there was no hope for him that he has no brain activity and they told us whenever we're ready we could go in so we went in about two o'clock in the morning and they disconnected him and then his heart was beating for another 29 minutes I have my head on his chest and it was a good torture know that every single time this could be that's how to be dying here it stopped my son was God in the United States ninety-eight children aged 17 and younger were accidentally killed by firearms in 2010 Nicholas non-kin was one of them [Music] at the Harvard School of Public Health researchers take a data-driven approach to studying gun violence do you think that innovating guns would be a way of potentially cutting down on gun violence yeah I think absolutely I think you know changing technology typically is the way to reduce injury and violence David Hemingway is the director of the Harvard injury control research center and the author of private guns public health if we had smart guns that would reduce gun theft and reduce gun accidents it would reduce gun suicides so certainly among teenagers if you could sit down with a staunch gun enthusiast that doesn't want anything to do with chips in a grip what would you say to that person as a public health specialist there's always people sort of fighting against improvements so it took over 20 years fighting against the automobile industry to get airbags into cars which have saved the numerable lives is it as much about changing technology as it is about changing human behavior typically it's much more cost effective to change the product than to try to educate every person and people make mistakes all the time and behave often behave badly in virtually all the successes in public health that's really been changing the product in the environment which has been shown to be the most effective it looks just like the ones on TV and in my video don't run away wrong the NRA believes in and advocates for personal responsibility and education its mascot Eddie Eagle is meant to teach kids about the importance of gun safety whether here there or on by oh wait stop don't touch tell grown up promoted you know Eddie Eagle and the like it's just it doesn't work there's lots of empirical evidence that doesn't work Debra Ezreal is the associate director of the Harvard youth violence prevention center her research focuses on the relationship between gun access and gun death these sort of rare events when we've been able to talk to pairs of parents and kids you know the parent thinks that the kid doesn't know that there's a gun and the parent thinks that the kid doesn't know where the gun is and you talk to the kid with the parent out of the room and the kid does know where the gun is and the kid has used you know has played with the gun I mean I understand that there's some cognitive dissonance there but your kid knows where the Christmas presents are your kid knows were the guns firearms haven't really changed that much if anything they've just gotten more and more powerful why do you think that it is both the NRA and the National Shooting Sports Foundation seem to have a stake in curtailing the development of smart guns they say that they don't and that what they object to is a mandate to me the most plausible reason for them to object to that technology is that if you sort of acknowledge that a gun can be made made safer the implication is that guns that don't incorporate smart technology are less and that it's an effort to not open up what might be a Pandora's box of potential liability with a legacy of fierce opposition it's surprising anyone would choose to develop a smart gun that's part of what makes our final stop on this journey so interesting we're outside of Seattle Washington on our way to meet a renowned bio hacker who's created something that's truly one-of-a-kind biohacking really is in my opinion the future of human evolution a magrav stray is not your typical gun guy so there's some groups out there that kind of think that RFID is evil they really think that it's the mark of the beast and it's you know it's some kind of you know subscription to - Satan himself so I could tell you that no it's not the case at least for me he's been a prominent figure in the body implant scene since the mid 2000s today he runs a custom Bioware company called dangerous things out of his own garage my belief is that a really well designed technology that's implanted it has no management it just kind of disappears when motherboard met with amyl previously he showed us some of his work I just wanted the door to recognize that was me this is a full javacard cryptographic platform it's all contactless but something that was still in development on our prior visit has brought us back the world's first bio hacked smart gun which amyl says is now ready for a test fire this is your garage here yeah office crush you know lab space door lock implant are you a gun person I wouldn't say I'm a gun person but there was a gun that I wanted to get and I actually learned about it through video games I thought you know if I'm gonna get one I want it to be something that one of my kids can't just pick up and shoot you know there's other smart guns that are being developed that are kind of based on like fingerprint or other things and I just thought that you know those technologies are typically a little clunky or require like a wrist band or some kind of wearable I already had implants so it just made sense to use a gun that worked with implants so I'm like I I can make one so this is a version of the tag that's basically I glued to a stick so that's what's inside the hand right there little cylinder and you can see I can kind of pop it up there you see it's the edge of it it's trying to poke out there good yeah I think poke it and move it around a bit when did you put this in so this one I went in in March 2005 so over eleven years ago its MRI compliant as well I can get an MRI or any medical procedure it's fine go through security at the airport just fine can the implants that you used with your smart gun be used to track the owner no not at all they're past the devices which means there's no battery they only operate when they're within the magnetic field of a reader which means you know maybe an inch at most that's the beauty of use devices they're simple no battery no charging no management they just work they're gonna work and do their jobs beautifully every time all the time an implant system is just ideal because it's always there you never forget it you kind of forget about it actually it's a it's really something that doesn't really interfere with your life until you need to use it and in a scenario where you want to ensure that you're the only one operating the weapon or you and your spouse are you and other authorized users it's kind of hard to be a weapon that fundamentally internally won't function until you present an authorized ID could you walk me through what goes into this gun and how it works there is a small area here where there's electronics and then this grip area has an antenna coil around it and then inside the trigger mechanism here there's a little peg that will lock and that blocks a trigger from being pulled so in order to remove that additional lock I have to present the implant to this reader in the grip area here so when I do that I can just do this here beep here's a little servo mechanism and now I can operate trigger have you received any criticism or threats as a result of your work oh yeah of course when I first got the implant 2005 there was a lot of hubbub and I received some death threats and then things at that time but then again with the smart gun project the death threats kind of resurfaced and people saying that I was trying to you know work with the government or something to take away their American rights and all this stuff and so this is the kind of thing that really got me thinking like a person that is actively advocating violence against another person for something they're doing in their garage who has nothing doesn't really affect them and it actually could help a lot of people is wanting to go murder me with their weapon right like this is the exact person that shouldn't have guns and this is the the heart of the argument about regulating all I wanted to do is make a smart gun so my kid couldn't shoot themselves or me it's time to test fire our aimless creation so we roll out to a local gun range I fired this gun once with the regular stock and I'll be doing it for the first time with the electronic you feeling good about it feel pretty confident yeah [Music] the initial test-fire of the world's first bio hacked smart gun is a success but a machine runs into an unforeseen problem it may have a lot yeah it locked locked so I think the shock from the from the firing is actually resetting it so I'll fire and actually be lots of trigger but it's and we're working it needs it needs adjustment amyl plans to update the prototype until it suits his standards of reliability but he holds no illusions about scaling up the tech for a wider market I'm happy with my product and for my own personal use but you know if people really want smart guns for these scenarios they're gonna have to get loud they're gonna have to be aggressive about about wanting it and this isn't to say contact your senator and this just say contact gun makers like contact people actually building guns and say we want this technology that's really how it's gonna work is driving market forces rather than regulatory forces what would you say to someone who thinks guns are just fine the way they are so why should we try and innovate them well they've never had their child shot by by accident and they have no ability to step into anybody else's shoes or really imagine a scenario where somebody who is not fit to to operate a weapon has one just to say there's no room for improvement that's just it's just ignorance and it's stubbornness really and you know it's oftentimes it takes serious tragedy for them to open their eyes a bit and say oh maybe maybe a little bit of innovation and change can could be a good thing in certain circumstances yeah this technology exists and people are working on it and people are trying to help and not to get on board with that I don't get if you can sit down with someone who owns a gun but who opposes user authenticated technology what would you say to them I would say that it could definitely save somebody's life in your house because everybody is responsible until all of a sudden oops and then this happens then all of a sudden you not responsible anymore when it happens in an instant you know and it's just like that's why small guns are so important I think because it would definitely save my son's life you know we will get there but at the tremendous tremendous cost of many many many people getting hurt or getting killed and unfortunately a lot more parents like living with what I live with every single day which is not easy I'm doing it but it's not easy if nobody's he's just kind of learned how to live with it didn't you go on but it's it's a new type of existence the guilt is overwhelming to like why am I here enough [Music] you

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Length: 43min 38sec (2618 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 06 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/kyle2086]

I can see some idiot like this pointing an actual loaded smart gun at people pulling the trigger and the mechanism fails.

[u/wintermute916]

I feel for the lady that lost her child but the claim that “they are going to find it no matter what” is utter bullshit. I’ve been shooting since I was six years old and all the firearms in my house were locked in a safe. I didn’t even get the combo to that safe till I was 30 or so because my parents took gun safety so seriously. If you leave a dangerous weapon laying around somewhere in your house you are 100 percent responsible if something bad happens.

[u/w3nt3rmvt3]

LOL. Vice is the worst.

[u/SportsterP]

I want that marlboro gun tho

[u/angryxpeh]

I'm pretty sure every gun I have is smarter than Mr. Brian A. Anderson. Because you can't get dumber than that idiot.

[u/risk5051]

vice

douchey asshole "reporting"

yeah looks about right

[u/Slider_0f_Elay]

This is all just trying to normalize smart guns? (I'm sorry I couldn't make it past the pen guns and silly comments) we haven't changed axes or hammers much for the same reason we haven't changed guns. Because it doesn't make sense.

[u/thach_weave]

Vice is the only news organization professional enough to handle a fortay.

[u/egaR661]

The guy giving the tours expression on his face after the host says I didn't think it would do that... then later in the video they let him shoot a fully automatic HK416...his eyes close every time he pulls the trigger...I need a tour of that ATF facility lol. But man this guy is like most of the politicians...no concept of or experience with what they're really trying to change