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Smart Gun Symposium

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015...-gun-symposium-talks-safety-risks-and-delays/

SEATTLE—On Wednesday, the Washington Technology Industry Association hosted the Seattle International Smart Gun Symposium, an event that King County Sheriff John Urquhart called the "first symposium I've heard of anywhere about this topic." The hours-long series of panels invited lawmakers, smart gun industry representatives, and gun safety advocates to speak on the subject of "user authorized" guns—meaning firearms that can only discharge in the hands of pre-authorized owners.
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I'd written to them a few times representing myself as a firearm instructor and former FFL interested in the technology, but I was not invited to attend in any capacity other than someone who paid to be present but not speak. I decided not to attend as I would have had to give up a day of leave.
Notably, the panels lacked anyone who identified primarily as an advocate of gun rights, gun manufacturing, or an organization such as the National Rifle Association, but panelists repeatedly acknowledged, if not answered, concerns about how a rise in smart gun technology might impact Americans' Second Amendment rights....
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Considering the attitude they gave me when I asked to be a part of the symposium, I'm not surprised they had a hard time convincing anyone else to attend.
Weinberg insisted that she offered a deal to the NRA: "If you encourage your members not to interfere with the research, development, manufacture, distribution, and retail sale of this technology, I will work to repeal the law in Jersey," believing the free market would be advocate enough for smart guns. "We never got an answer," she told the Seattle crowd.
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The police present were not thrilled about the new technology either.
King County Sheriff John Urquhart was on hand in another panel to remark on both the potential of smart guns and what he considered technology that "wasn't ready for prime time."

Urquhart explained the skepticism his police peers have about any eventual smart guns: ....but that should smart gun technology advance to a point where he was comfortable with it, he wouldn't see a financial or logistical roadblock to upgrading his force's hardware. "If it was gonna save lives, and the lives of my officers, I’d spend that kind money, and the council would approve it."
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Ranb
 
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He sounds more excited about the potential, as I am. I would love to have a personalized firearm, would feel much better about carrying something like that instead of my other pistols. Since he does not think they are ready for his police officers he might be nearly as upset about any attempt to force them upon his people are civilians are.

Ranb
 
The effects of recoil on electronics is the biggest hurdle besides battery reliability.

Then there's the cost, is it going to be about the same as conventional firearms or is it going to add hundreds or thousands of dollars to the price?
 
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