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I'd like to see more work on police-specific weapons. Weapon retention is a HUGE problem for the police. They open-carry pistols, aren't terribly well armed,
by rdl 12y ago
I'd like to see more work on police-specific weapons.
Weapon retention is a HUGE problem for the police. They open-carry pistols, aren't terribly well armed, are easy to get to show up, and have to grapple with suspects. This means more of them die by their own weapons (taken by someone else) than by an attacker's own weapon!
Retention holsters (the level 3 stuff, like SERPA) are great, but this is the one area where weapons with biometric or other authentication make sense. Particularly for non-SWAT police, they'll probably carry the gun openly for an entire career but never actually fire in self defense.
Police weapons having an integrated "guncam" and "gunradio" which start recording and calling for help the instant they're removed from the holster would be great, too.
- erichurkman 12y agoThose would be awesome. What do you think about the ``smart weapon'' laws, though? New Jersey, for example.
- rdl 12y agoFor civilian ownership, it's wrong to require the smart weapons; civilians have an entirely different use case for weapons than police do.
- lotsofmangos 12y agothis is the one area where weapons with biometric or other authentication make sense Will they explode if someone else tries to use them and fire several different voice activated rounds? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawgiver_%28Judge_Dredd%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawgiver_%28Judge_Dredd%29