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It’s been nearly 20 years since the state of New Jersey approved a bill mandating that so-called smart guns could be the only type of firearm sold in the state once a smart gun model was made available to the public. The law also directed hundreds of thousands of dollars in grant money to researchers to develop “smart gun” technology, but despite (or maybe because of) the push, there are still no smart guns available for sale commercially.
The state hasn’t given up, however. Back in 2019, the legislature modified the law, which now requires gun store owners to carry at least one smart gun model once it’s available for sale, though old-fashioned firearms can still be sold without violating the law. To speed up adoption of the technology, the state created a Personalized Handgun Authorization Commission that’s supposed to approve smart guns for sale in New Jersey, and last month Gov. Phil Murphy announced four appointments to the board, including
N.J. makes new push to get controversial smart guns in stores after failing for years
Posted May 10, 2021
A prototype of a smart gun that the New Jersey Institute of Technology spent more than a decade developing. The gun uses sensors to measure a user s hand grip so only authorized users can fire. The NJIT research has ended after running out of funding. (Courtesy of NJIT)
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The 1911 pistol is one of Timmy Oh’s favorite guns.
Oh has experimented on firearms since he was a teenager, looking for ways to make them safer, and he said he was drawn to how the 1911′s “beautiful” design once changed the industry. When the gun was introduced more than a century ago, its improved durability made it a U.S. military mainstay.
New Jersey Could Soon Require Ammo to Be Micro Stamped
Move over Bruce Springsteen, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy is showing everyone in the Garden State who is really the boss when it comes to gun control. He announced the third major push for additional measures that would restrict firearm ownership since he took office in 2018.
Move over Bruce Springsteen, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy is showing everyone in the Garden State who is really the boss when it comes to gun control. He announced the third major push for additional measures that would restrict firearm ownership since he took office in 2018.
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Feature image: Seattle Police Department attempts to secure the area outside Rancho Bravo on Capitol Hill after deploying chemical weapons against protestors. Taken during the George Floyd protests in Seattle. Photo: Derek Simeone, Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)
The names of all six Seattle Police Department officers who attended the fascist Jan. 6 rally in Washington, D.C., have been finally revealed. In a lengthy and exhaustive Twitter thread, DivestSPD posted names, badge numbers, and personnel records for each of the officers, detailing salaries and their long histories of complaints and disciplinary actions. Of all law enforcement agencies in the nation, the Seattle Police Department had the most officers confirmed to have been in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 6.