we thought we d be ready. but demand for our cocktail bitters was huge. i could feel our deadlines racing towards us. we didn t need a loan. we needed short-term funding. fast. our amex helped us fill the orders. just like that. you can t predict it, but you can be ready. another step on the journey. will you be ready when growth presents itself. whitaker: federal and local authorities all over the country say it s the biggest drug epidemic today not methamphetamines or cocaine, but heroin. you might think of heroin as primarily an inner city problem. but dealers connected to mexican drug cartels are making huge profits by expanding to new, lucrative markets suburbs all across the country. it s basic economics the dealers are going where the money is. and they re cultivating a new set of consumers high school students, college athletes, teachers, and professionals. heroin is showing up everywhere in places like columbus, ohio. the area has long been viewed as so typical
them, and in the united states, there s a lot of tradition involved firearms. people like guns of the old west, they like them the way davie crockett used them, they like them the way they were used years ago. stahl: that was the case a decade and a half ago, as jonathan mossberg found out. he had left his family s gun making business, mossberg and sons, and invented a smart gun that works in conjunction with a ring. do i get. get my own, right? jonathan mossberg: yeah, you get your own ring. stahl: the ring has a tiny computer chip inside a black stone which transmits a signal. when it s close to the trigger, it unlocks the gun. mossberg: alternatively, if i were to grab it, you know, nothing happens. stahl: mossberg s gun was ready to sell 13 years ago, but. mossberg: people weren t really. there was some market, but not enough, so we decided not to sell it. stahl: and has something changed? mossberg: yes. we all started living with these evil things, and so