Obama Presses ‘Smart Guns,’ Announces Gun Control Summit

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President Barack Obama touted government support of smart gun purchasing for law enforcement agencies and also announced a gun control summit for state and local officials.

In a Facebook post on Friday, Obama said:

We’ve jumpstarted the development of smart gun technology. Today, many gun injuries and deaths are the result of legal guns that were stolen, misused, or discharged accidentally. As long as we’ve got the technology to prevent a criminal from stealing and using your smartphone, then we should be able to prevent the wrong person from pulling a trigger on a gun. So, my Administration released a plan today to expedite the development of smart gun technology, including by identifying the requirements that smart guns would have to meet in order for law enforcement to purchase and use them effectively and keep themselves and the public safer in the process.

Obama did not point out the most commonly heralded form of smart gun–a gun that is activated by being in close proximity to a watch or bracelet paired with it via radio frequency–actually does little to make guns safer. In fact, a criminal who steals the bracelet and the gun could go on a shooting spree as easily as a criminal using a traditional firearm.