Guns and a friend
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smokingbootA friend of mine is facing difficulties.
She and her husband have put together a very interesting invention; a unit that could be added to guns which would record the gun's activity, how many bullets/ammo fired, where and when, in which direction, that sort of thing. Trouble is, while they have created the patent and a working unit, they don't have the money to manufacture these things, and they have no 'in' to the weapon industry. Smith and Wesson were not interested, and the British Rifle Association just laughed when she talked about accountability. It's the last thing their customers want.
She's very indignant about this, and I can see why. On the other hand, I do understand that people who 'like' guns may not want their random firings to be easily documented for all sorts of reasons unlikely to reflect well.
It seems to me that this is the kind of thing no-one would want on their rifle, but would be very useful to law enforcement agencies and the armed forces: it would be pretty easy to track a nicked gun, it might be possible to remotely disable it.Yesterday I read about another hen harrier 'disappearing,' its tag suddenly silent. It was near a grousemoor, never a safe place for these birds. We have a bare handful of breeding pairs left.
Units such as my friend and her husband have invented could be a real help in the detection of wildlife crime, but the truth is that until such regulation becomes policy, the invention is unlikely to go anywhere, and whoever owns the patent carries a dead letter. With patent, no policy and no way of manufacturing, things are not easy for my mate. We are catching up on Thursday and I would like to be a bit constructive, but I have no real knowledge of such matters at all.
She and her husband have put together a very interesting invention; a unit that could be added to guns which would record the gun's activity, how many bullets/ammo fired, where and when, in which direction, that sort of thing. Trouble is, while they have created the patent and a working unit, they don't have the money to manufacture these things, and they have no 'in' to the weapon industry. Smith and Wesson were not interested, and the British Rifle Association just laughed when she talked about accountability. It's the last thing their customers want.
She's very indignant about this, and I can see why. On the other hand, I do understand that people who 'like' guns may not want their random firings to be easily documented for all sorts of reasons unlikely to reflect well.
It seems to me that this is the kind of thing no-one would want on their rifle, but would be very useful to law enforcement agencies and the armed forces: it would be pretty easy to track a nicked gun, it might be possible to remotely disable it.Yesterday I read about another hen harrier 'disappearing,' its tag suddenly silent. It was near a grousemoor, never a safe place for these birds. We have a bare handful of breeding pairs left.
Units such as my friend and her husband have invented could be a real help in the detection of wildlife crime, but the truth is that until such regulation becomes policy, the invention is unlikely to go anywhere, and whoever owns the patent carries a dead letter. With patent, no policy and no way of manufacturing, things are not easy for my mate. We are catching up on Thursday and I would like to be a bit constructive, but I have no real knowledge of such matters at all.
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