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Written by Eleanor Clift.

What if a gun could only be fired by its owner? Now they can—and that doesn’t please the gun lobby.

Earlier this month, a six-year-old playing “cops and robbers” shot his 3-year-old brother in the face with a gun that his father kept wrapped in pajamas on top of the refrigerator. The boy died, one of some 2,300 gun deaths in Chicago so far this year. With Congress unwilling to act to curb gun violence, and state legislatures often acting like wholly owned subsidiaries of the gun lobby, safety advocates are turning to technology to save lives with a renewed push for so-called “smart guns” that can only be fired by their rightful owner.

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