Obama Reveals Push for “Smart Guns”
An employee of German arms manufacturer Armatix poses with the company’s smart gun concept weapon at the International Weapons trade fair in Germany in 2010. | Getty
The president also announces progress on plan to put mental health records into background check system.
Read the full article from Politico here.
Written by Sarah Wheaton.
President Barack Obama is renewing his push to curb gun violence, outlining on Friday his plans with law enforcement and researchers to encourage the use of so-called smart gun technology and announcing that the Social Security Administration is moving forward with a plan to put its mental health records into the background check system for gun purchases.
The moves stem from President Barack Obama’s executive actions to reduce gun violence in January, in the face of ongoing Congressional resistance to new gun control legislation. At that time, he asked agencies to look into ways to overcome the financial and political hurdles that have for decades stymied research into personalized weapons that can only be fired by an authorized user.