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Originally posted by Zeld2.0
Well the entire argument of the system failing / "not 100% reliable" doesnt' really work considering even the best made guns in the world can malfuncion and jam. Think about the M16 jamming in a firefight in Vietnam - yeah, even worse.
The thing is, this system is also to prevent criminals from stealing the gun of the officer. These situations actually happen and they aren't too particularly rare.
The idea isn't bad (as the article says) - but it needs to be fixed to be nearly perfect (because nothing can truly be perfect.)
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I've put somewhere between a 1000 and 2000 rounds through my SIG P226 (a favorite police/military pistol) and I think I've had one problem.
That's a failure rate of less than 0.1%.
I doubt smart guns will ever get to this level of reliability, but if they do, I'll be first in line to get one.
(Also, the M16 had problems in Vietnam because soldiers weren't cleaning them properly. So this was a training problem, not a reliability problem.)