Innovative young engineer designs smart gun to advance gun safety
Strongly motivated to work towards gun safety technology by
the theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado native Kai Kloepfer of Biofire Technologies
has designed and introduced the first smart gun working prototype. He aims for
production within a year to two years.
Kai's smart gun improves gun safety by restricting gun use to
authorized users. A biometric fingerprint
sensor is positioned in the gun's grip where the shooter’s middle
finger normally rests. Continuous contact with the sensor allows the gun to remain live.
The sensor doesn’t work through gloves or drenched skin, but
will work with hands that are sweaty. Currently it takes about 1-1/2 seconds
for the sensor to work and release the internal trigger lock. The goal is to
decrease the time to only half a second. The gun can store 10 fingerprints,
allowing other trusted users to be able to operate gun.
The smart gun has already has detractors due to physical
limitations, but also due to politics. As some politicians are already working
towards pushing technology as a means of gun control, some Second Amendment supporters
are seeking to prevent smart guns from making inroads into the gun market.
Kai is not a supporter of forcing smart gun technology on anyone, rather he wants to offer consumers a choice in the marketplace. He sees a smart gun
as good fit with younger gun owners who have grown up with smart phones and devices, and who are comfortable with and advocates of smart technology.
By Jacki Billings, Guns.com,
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