Reply To: THE PUZZLE OF MURDER-BY-GUN STATISTICS

[Strega]

@Unseen. My last laptop had a fingerprint scan mechanism which substitutes as a password. I wonder how hard it would be to transpose that mechanism onto a gun trigger. It was really easy to add other people’s fingerprints when there was need, and just as easy to delete them.

You could transfer gun ownership really easily with such a mechanism and it might mean that accidents with kids would be far less likely – nor lend itself to ‘teen taking parent gun’ issues, as in the school killings. I’m sure the code could be broken by experts so it wouldn’t prevent theft, but might it impede negative opportunism?