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If guns like these were pervasive, a typical home invader would likely know who they can flip it to, who would know how to hack it. And soon enough, even your
by necovek 3y ago
If guns like these were pervasive, a typical home invader would likely know who they can flip it to, who would know how to hack it.
And soon enough, even your kids would learn how to hack it (if not before: kids really like figuring out stuff they are not supposed to do!).
I don't own a gun either (though I shot one in a shooting range twice), but if I was ever worried I'd need to defend myself with guns, I'd probably stockpile on live rounds instead of guns: in a case where people would need to rise to arms, I figure rounds will quickly become more valuable and could be easily exchanged for a gun with someone without any rounds.
- egberts1 3y agoYour average home invader is not going to do the necessary preparation especially if they are addicted to O.P.M. (other people's money).
- necovek 3y agoSelling it after the fact does not really require any preparation: I guess you meant they won't come prepared to hack it, which I agree with. If biometric-auth guns were pervasive yet hackable, petty criminals will likely have a way to easily sell them off to someone better equipped to hack them. I was mostly countering whether biometric auth would stop them feom being used for crimes after getting stolen.
- madeofpalk 3y ago> And soon enough, even your kids would learn how to hack it How would a kid get the firearm? Are firearm owners/parents elsewhere so irresponsible that they leave firearms lying around unsecured?
- llamaimperative 3y agoThat’s the whole value prop of this gun: you can leave it outside of a safe. Otherwise you have both a safe (definitely secure + reliable) and a second, certainly more finicky safety device within the safe, which doesn’t really improve anything except your odds of losing whatever is about to happen. Insane proposition IMO.