Facial recognition kick in and help i haven t tested it, so i m anxious to actually get it in my hands, get out on a range and see how it performs. st the a great the step forward it s a great step forward. we also, pete, have these asinine laws, for example, new jersey, which has reformed this law, used to make it very restrictive for a gun shop owner to carry a smart gun like this, saying that if you did this, you couldn t carry other guns. it was just so stupid. well, those are gone now, so we might actually see some incentive now for not just gun companies, but technology companies to sort of come together like bio fire has and bring this to market to just introduce some weapons that, you know, i think it s actually going to create a new market for people who otherwise would not have purchased a gun. and now they ll have the ability to protect their family at their house because they won t worry so much about the dangers that are inherent to ownership of a gun, especially for t
Throwing every the book at him to try to deter anyone else who could have access to the same kind of thing he did. what s your thought? well, you know, pete and i both served as military officers and have at times had certain classified clearances, and, you know, you sweat bullets when you have classified information because classified information released even can lead to criminal prosecution. so, you know, i would imagine if right now he s in the 25 years, you don t want your national secrets to be released. of course there s the other issue, are you shooting the messenger here. so you ve got to be kind of it s going to be to be an interesting predicament in terms of how far the government wants to go in terms of making an example of the kid this kid was 19 when he got clearance, and there s some issues there as well. rachel: hey, don, is there a difference between the way a military service member is treated when they mishandle documents and say a politician
Now, by contrast, i know pete and i have talked about the bradley manning case chelsea manning, i suppose, back during the obama administration. manning faced 22 counts of which he at the time was convicted of 20 the, and 8 of those were under the espionage act, and for that manning received 35 years under a military court-martial. this is not a court-martial, this young man s been arraigned in the united states court in boston the because he was a air national guardsman, and he was arrested during, you know, when he was off duty. but he s looking at a maximum of 25 the years if no additional charges are added, and we don t know if that ll happen or not. pete: so, don, you kind of answered my next question. because he s in the national guard, he s in civilian counts. so the army the military s not charging him, the feds are. that s true. i guess this is pete talking pete: yes. yes, that s true, pete, but i understand that even bradley manning and others or christian
hey, pete, good morning to you. we ve been tracking this biometric gun-shooting smart gun market for about, oh, or i don t know, since 2015 actually. and this one is the first one to the actually come to market for the fingerprint. it s called bio fire. it e has just been launched. it is taking orders right now for preorder, they expect to deliver or this gun, it s the a .9 mm, in the beginning of 2024, and it does use the tint or the face recognition. i still have a lot of questions about this gun. i mean, the goal here, by the way, created out of this colorado company is to create a fire arm that would be safe at a house. so it s the goal is to cut down on accidents that happen with kids and also when someone else gets ahold of your gun, they wouldn t be able to shoot, use it against you. i ve got some questions. my questions would be, all right, what if i have a sweaty hand at that time and my fingerprint isn t being read and, you know, does then the
Classified documents, jack teixeira facing a judge in boston yesterday. rachel: and the leak revealing disturbing new details on china s effort to spy on the u.s. pete: kevin corke joins us live from washington. reporter: good morning, guys. we are learning a lot more from that trove of classified documents posted online by 21-year-old jack teixeira, and that includes a report from the washington post i need to tell you about. it suggests that u.s. intel agencies were aware of up to four additional chinese spy balloons going back two years even as questions lingeredded about the true nature of the one that flew over the continental u.s. in january and february. now, for his part, teixeira was arraigned in boston yesterday. prosecutors requesting he be detainedded pending trial, and they set a pretrial hearing for next wednesday. according to an affidavit, the fbi alleges the pentagon leaker s discord friends turned him into the feds even as he