Silicon Valley seeks to disrupt gun industry
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Written by Dan Morain.
A mock-up of the Armatix iP1 pistol, which was intended to be the first “smart gun” for sale in America last year. The company’s handgun uses a radio frequency-enabled stopwatch to identify its user so no one else can fire it, but it has met with the same uproar that has stopped many seeking tougher weapons laws. MONICA ALMEIDA New York Times file
After ducking talk of gun control in her 2008 presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton regularly calls for background checks for all firearms purchases as she seeks to excite her Democratic base.
Further elevating the issue, voters in Maine and Nevada in 2016 will decide ballot measures to expand background checks to include people who buy firearms from private parties, closing the gun show loophole, although the loophole is not quite the gaping problem it once was.