Author Archive for Margot Hirsch
Let the courts open the way for smart guns
Read the full article from The Hill here. Written by Monte Frank and Michael Koskoff. Since Sandy Hook approximately three years ago, there have been hundreds of mass shootings. After …
This Angel Investor’s Solution to Gun Violence? Smart Guns
Read the full article from Inside Philanthropy here. Written by Jack Bedrosian. It’s been a seminal year for gun violence in America. From South Carolina to San Bernadino and too …
GunGuardian Wins Smart Tech Reliability Challenge
Will Murphy and Rob Harvey of Florida-based GunGuardian are the winners of the Smart Tech Challenges Foundation Race to Reliability Challenge. The Foundation invited its top innovators to make a …
First Time at a Gun Show
Read the full article from The New York Times here. Written by Charles M. Blow. I was in San Antonio on Saturday for the college graduation of a nephew when …
These are the weapons that could prevent gun violence
Foundation President Margot Hirsch drafted this blog post for The Washington Post’s “In Theory” blog In light of the recent San Bernardino, Calif., massacre, two things are certain: Politicians will …
Aiming to bring smart guns to U.S. market
Read the full article from the Los Angeles Times here. Written by Michael Hiltzik. Tim Oh, 19, is an Anaheim-born and -raised engineering student with a promising idea: It’s a …
Know-how can scale back gun violence
Written by Preston Gralla for WikiNewsTech. Simply since Oct. 1, the U.S. has been victimized by a stream of lethal mass shootings — 10 individuals murdered at Umpqua Group School …
Fox & Friends Profiles Jonathan Mossberg’s iGun
Fox & Friends contributor Kurt Knutsson, known as the “CyberGuy”, interviewed Smart Tech Challenges Foundation grantee Jonathan Mossberg on air and tried out the token-access iGun shotgun first-hand. During his …