Dem Senator Ed Markey Wants Smart Gun Technology Because it
Worked for James Bond
by AWR Hawkins 19 Feb 2014
On February 19 Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) said he will soon push
legislation requiring smart-gun
technology for all handguns, and he cited "the most recent James
Bond" movie to demonstrate how the technology works.
The legislation is called The
Handgun Trigger Safety Act of 2014, and the press release from Markey's office
introduces it thus:
In the most recent James Bond
film, Bond escapes death when his handgun, which is equipped with technology
that recognizes him as its owner, became inoperable when it gets into the wrong
hands. This technology, however, isn't just for the movies – it's reality.
Markey's press release then goes
on to describe how "personalization technology allows the purchaser of a
gun to designate authorized user(s) who can operate [it]." He claims this
would take away a criminal's ability to steal and use a stolen gun and would
also "prevent small children who accidentally find a handgun from firing
it."
Boston Magazine reported that
Markey delivered further comments on this legislation in Roxbury, in Boston, on February 19.
Speaking to residents and flanked by gun control proponents, Markey outlined
various types of smart gun technologies, including technology that makes a gun
inoperable unless the user is wearing a watch synced with the gun via a radio
signal.
Markey did not explain what would
happen if someone stole the watch and the gun, or the wristband and gun that
other smart gun proponents have mentioned.
On April 25, Breitbart News reported
that the National Shooting Sports Foundation's Lawrence Keane put his finger on
the inherent problem with such technology by pointing out that if Adam Lanza's
mother had a watch or wristband to make her gun operable, "[Adam Lanza]
presumably would have had access to that [too]."
Other types of "smart
gun" technology pose different kinds of problems. For example, what
happens when a gun programmed to fire only when in the hands of a father or
mother proves useless to a 17-year-old son who retrieves it under duress after
a burglar has killed his parents?
Ed Markey
Edward
J. Markey is a U.S. Senate
senator, married to Susan Blumenthal,
and his legislative director was Ronald
A. Klain.
Note: Ronald A. Klain
was Edward J. Markey’s legislative
director, a partner at O'Melveny &
Myers LLP, the chief of staff to the vice president for the Barack Obama administration, was Janet Reno’s chief of staff.
Kathleen
Brown was an attorney at O'Melveny
& Myers LLP, the California
state government treasurer, is the California state government governor Jerry Brown’s sister, and a member of
the Commercial Club of Chicago
NRA-ILA (Jerry Brown’s Gun Control History)
Walter E.
Dellinger III is a partner at O'Melveny
& Myers LLP, a board of adviser’s member at the American Constitution Society, and was the acting solicitor general
for the U.S. Department of Justice.
Janet
Reno is a board of adviser’s member for the American Constitution Society, Ronald
A. Klain was her chief of staff, and the attorney general for the U.S. Department of Justice.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the American Constitution Society, and the Center for American Progress.
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, and was supporter for the Center for American Progress.
Eric H. Holder Jr.
was a board member for the American
Constitution Society, a trustee at Save
the Children, and is the attorney general at the U.S. Department of Justice for the Barack Obama administration.
NRA-ILA (Eric Holder’s Gun Control History)
Susan Blumenthal
was a trustee at Save the Children,
and is married to Senator Edward J.
Markey.
Robert
Raben was a director at the American
Constitution Society, the assistant attorney general for the U.S. Department of Justice, and is the president
for the Raben Group.
Raben
Group is the lobby firm for Mayors
Against Illegal Guns.
NRA-ILA (Mayors Against Illegal Guns Gun Control History)
Melody
C. Barnes was a principal for the Raben
Group, the EVP for the Center for
American Progress, and is Barack
Obama’s golf partner.
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