Forbes: Is it time to put RFID chip in guns?

There is an idea for a semiconductor application that has been kicked around for years, but has not yet found its market.  It’s the notion of using RFID chips to prevent guns from being used by anyone except their owners.

If you look back over the past year alone you will find that a number of killings have resulted from the killer appropriating someone else’s gun.  It’s not unusual for a killer to shoot a police officer with another officer’s gun, or even that officer’s own gun.  The school shootings that are becoming increasingly frequent in the US are often committed by a child using a parent’s gun.  Firearms stolen from homes and cars are often used in gang violence.  If a gun would be useful only to its owner these deaths might be avoided.

Fellow Forbes blogger Larry Bell gives some interesting statistics from a Department of Justice survey of prison inmates in his post: Disarming Realities: As Gun Sales Soar, Gun Crimes Plummet.  The survey found that 37% of inmates used a family member’s gun and another 40% obtained their weapon from an illegal source.  Some of these crimes may have been avoided if firearms could be operated exclusively by their owners.

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Source: Forbes