we re joined by news specialist for guns.com, max slovik. good to see you, max. we ve seen james bond movies. sometimes we think that technology looks so cool but is it actually real? the vice president says we re very close to this smart gun technology where the person who actually owns the gun would be the only one who could fire it. is that correct? there is a sort of technology in the works. it s very much still in its infancy. there are some promising leads but nothing concrete exists right now. gretchen: how would it exist? if it is a prototype right now, tell me how it works. there are two branches of technology for this. there s radio and there s biometric scanners. the radio system works. the prototypes that are most common and most successful are based on these radio scanners. the way they operate is