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jimmy the one

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9. playing chicken with a jammer
Tue Aug 8, 2017, 10:38 AM
Aug 2017
Armatix IP1, a smart gun ... Plore showed that he can extend the range of the watch's radio signal, allowing anyone to fire the gun when it's more than ten feet away.
He can jam the gun's radio signals to prevent its owner from firing it—even when the watch is inches away and connected.
And most disturbingly, he can mechanically disable the gun's locking mechanism by placing some cheap magnets alongside its barrel, firing the gun at will even when the watch is completely absent.


This is your argument that smart guns are unreliable? or more unreliable than a regular gun? because smart guns can be defeated using a particular sophisticated technology? which overrides kids flipping a safety?
Is the perp supposed to carry this jamming mechanism on his person, waiting for the moment to arrive when he encounters someone with an armatix IP1? or is a universal gizmo in the offing? 'get your gun jammer quick before democrats ban em'.

And then, the perp's so confident he's degunned the gun he does what? rob & steal? why go after a gun owner to begin with? lotsa wallets walking about with no guns attached.
And jammer owners can quickly recognize a smart gun from a conventional one?
How confident is the jammer that his device has jammed? more like playing chicken on the highway.
OK, I put the magnets on the barrel so your gun will shoot off any second now so you may as well put it down & give me your money, OK? and thanks for letting me get so close to put them on, glad you didn't jerk the gun off to the side

Or is it the law abiding cit carries a jammer about in his glove compartment on the remote chance he runs into a road raging smart gun owner, or a wealthy criminal with kids so as to own one?
If someone were pointing a smart gun at me, whether disabled or not, I'd still be antsy pantsy about it. I think most anyone would be.
I don't think this has disproved the efficacy of smart guns.

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