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Smart Firearms Safety Technology Can Prevent Suicides
Two new studies, as reported on by the Los Angeles Times, both find that states in which access to firearms is easier tend to have higher rates of suicide. Means Matter, …
Launching today, the Race to Reliability Challenge
The Smart Tech Firearms: Race to Reliability Challenge is your opportunity to meet the innovators leading the field of firearms safety technology and tell them what YOU think about their …
Announcement: Smart Tech Firearms Reliability Challenge
The Smart Tech Challenges Foundation was formed to spur innovation in firearm safety, and our elite field of innovators are working on technologies that improve safety through the integration of …
Smart guns locked to owners’ identities could stop needless deaths
Originally published in New Scientist London. What is your foundation’s approach to the US gun situation? It’s a polarising issue in this country – the political system is gridlocked. Many …
Why Don’t We Have Life-Saving Smart Guns Yet?
Originally published in Popular Mechanics. For decades inventors have been trying to make guns that can be fired only by their owners, without sacrificing reliability. Stuffy industry types call them …
Teen Develops Smart Gun Unlocked by Fingerprint
Originally published in Voice of America. Smart Tech Challenges Foundation’s innovator Kai Kloepfer was 16 years old when he won the INTEL International Science and Engineering Fair. He had designed a …
Smart guns can prevent gun tragedies
Published in the Detroit Free Press. At a time when he should be getting ready for his first day of sixth grade, an 11-year-old Detroit boy has been charged with …
Smart guns: They’re ready. Are we?
Originally published in Fortune: Doug, who runs the website smartgunz.com, asks us not to use his last name or to identify the town where he works. “I’m just in Nebraska,” …