Straight out of a James Bond film, fingerprint guns are activated by your fingerprint alone.
Fingerprint-access gun technology allows user-authentication to be
instantaneous, effortless, and accurate. Fingerprint gun and fingerprint handgun technology is already widely in use in other tech devices, and offers a high-tech solution to prevent others from using your firearm. When an authorized user presses their finger to a fingerprint scanner on a fingerprint gun, the scanner compares the print to its internal database, finds a match, and allows the user full access to the firearm. Unauthorized users cannot access the firearm. This emerging technology can be programmed for a virtually unlimited number of users, allowing gun owners to give friends and family access to their firearm, or police departments to authorize an entire police force on the same firearm.
"You know that once you register that weapon it belongs to you."– Muscogee County Marshal Greg Countryman
Fingerprint-access innovations.
Learn more about innovator Tom Lynch’s fingerprint-access retrofit kit. The Safe Gun Technology fingerprint access retrofit solution gives firearms owners peace of mind by making it impossible for anyone except authorized users to fire the weapon.
Learn more about innovator Omer Kiyani’s IDENTILOCK, a biometric gunlock that reads the shooter’s fingerprint before unlocking to leave the trigger open for firing. It fits directly over the trigger of any firearm and once authorized, detaches from the firearm
within seconds.Learn more about innovator Kai Kloepfer’s fingerprint-access handgun. Kai is integrating a fingerprint scanner that can be programmed for a virtually unlimited number of users and boasts a 99.99% accurate recognition rate, onto a live firearm. It could prevent unauthorized discharge of a firearm by children, people attempting to commit suicide, and people untrained to use the weapon.
https://smarttechfoundation.org/My question I guess is; these devices need to be powered, presumably by some sort of battery, what does one do if the battery dies? The gun becomes as good as a rock. I also noticed (and put in bold) that in the beginning of the article it was "instantaneous", but by the end, it changed to "within seconds". Well that's comforting when split seconds count.