Like what, a rock? A screwdriver, maybe? You just take the smart gun bit off and throw it away. Long as the firing pin hits the round, the gun goes bang. This ain't rocket surgery.

This only sounds easy to someone who doesn't understand that ammunition is commonly manufactured at home. There is no "supply dries up". There's only "aw, that shells kind of annoying to make. The price is marginally higher per round".

You mean like the law requiring handguns to be sold with a lock, and the law requiring parents to secure their gun so the kid can't use it? We have those already. Hell, my state has that law too. This means I get to buy TWO locks with every handgun. I'm sure lock #3 will make the gun magically safe from stupid people.

It doesn't solve any problem. Current guns are non-electronic, and there is no need for an electronic element. Bypassing the security should be trivial if you can use a screwdriver, and anyway, we have trigger locks for safe storage now. If you have to rely on biometric scanners working correctly in an emergency...I'm sorry.

Yes, you can hunt with a 30 round clip. The specific case of duck hunting has a 3 round mag limit for sporting reasons. Most forms of hunting have no legal limit whatsoever. Millions of 30+ round mags have been made. Hell, probably over a million every year in the US alone. 99.999% or so have not killed large amounts of people. Therefore, your statement is obviously wrong.

Or you're hunting in circumstances where you need to shoot multiple targets rapidly, often repeatedly. Wild hogs, for instance. It's entirely normal to fire >10 rounds at one go. The point isn't that you need round #30. It's that you need round #11. Also, circumstances requiring more than 6 shots are not rare. Let's dial it up to 10, just to make your case easier, shall we? How often do you need more than 10 rounds? According to the NYPD metrics on "shots fired" incidents, about 15% of the time. And those folks are cops, with decent amounts of training. Of course, if you prefer to ignore data in favor of penis anecdotes, I'm *sure* that's a completely valid point.

It's cool. They'll just fix it all by making it "In the cloud".

Not really. 35%, on average, achieve the same income quintile as they were born into. Given that if it were determined purely by random chance, we'd still get a 20% repetition between generations, it's pretty clear that the "class you were born in is the class you die in" is...kind of an over generalization.

So, if they don't want the handouts...stop them? They're happy because of....something, and you're happy because you have more dollars in your pocket. Win/win?

Yes please. It would save us a pile of tax money, and Civil War 2 would provide us with good television. I say we go for it.

The boom of the fifties was for a much different, and simpler set of reasons. First, you had an economy adapted to wartime that suddenly got all it's men back from the war. Second, you had a sudden lifting of long-in-place rationing. Thirdly, the war took place on other people's land. That sucked for them, but made us shine in comparison. So, you've suddenly got an influx of workers, a spike in demand, and a lack of overseas competition(and spikes in their demand). That's a great economical mix.

Nah, all of the Jovian moons have an induced magnetic field. No particular reason you couldn't have the same elsewhere.