Military has a truck to plane system for palletized cargo that works pretty decently. Well, ok, k-loader to plane...not the most standard of trucks. However, it does work for simplifying loading/unloading of aircraft, and there's no particular reason that the same pallets couldn't be used elsewhere. Vehicles utilizing them and automated inventory systems for them already exist.

Additionally, the volley gun was in service in the British military at this time. Seven rounds, shoulder fired gun...and also rockets and mortars and warships and rifles. Gun tech moves a lot slower than many people believe. There's a reason we're still using the 1911. Gun tech just hasn't changed that much in over a hundred years.

Style, like with apparel, refers to how something looks. So, "assault style", means the individual thinks the gun looks like what might be used in assaults. In short, it probably resembles something he or she saw in an action movie once.

Ammunition consists of powder and shot. If you're electrically detonating it, you don't need the right electrical current, you just need an electrical current. In other words, a "smart" weapon can be trivially modified to work by replacing the expensive biometric portion with a bit of wire and duct tape. Or, yknow, hitting the bullet with something hard, the way we do it now.

And, just like all of those cheap POS HPs and Dells, the average user will just ignore the fingerprint stuff, and the net gain will be pretty much zero.

He's referencing Kleck's work on the subject. I presume your "billion to one" number has a source, then?

The possible abuses of a "no gun" signal should be obvious with even a second's thought. For one thing, it'll be trivial for a crook to disable the tech on his gun in advance. Now he's the only person with a gun in that zone. This doesn't even bring up what someone with a slight bit of technical competence could do.

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".