Are Smart guns the future?

There are new guns coming out on the market that are called smart guns. They have devices built into them that make you have to be verified as the owner of the gun to shot it. You have to register in order to activate the gun and it keeps track of you when you use it. The new ones use watches that you wear to activate the , so you have to be wearing the watch in order to shoot it. The hope is that because of all this safe constraints gun related violence will go down.

A lot of the crimes committed with guns are usually illegal guns that are not registered and used by people who have records that make it illegal for them to own firearms. The creators of smart guns are hoping that the increase in gun safety will help lower crime rates. But the main problem is that people have shown that they do not want the “personal” guns. Because of the rules you have to follow to activate them, people think they will lose all their use in important situations. Like if a burglar breaks into someones home, and that person does not have their watch with them the gun is useless.  

But the counterargument is that people will not be able to steal and trade in illegal guns, nor will guns be able to be used by criminals that should not have guns. That people will not be able to use them in any crimes because of how will it is documented. The biggest problems are that there are guns on the market that do not use smart technology. Because they are available completely undermines the use of smart guns. Why would a person handicap themselves against people who are the committing crimes like robbery and murder.

Another big problems is the reliability of the guns. If one little thing goes wrong the gun will not work. Many of the smart guns made in the past have not been reliable at all and there have been many problems with them.  One model of a handgun have a fingerprint scanner on the grip to prove that your were you to be able to fire it. But the problem was that it did not always work or sometimes it would for someone one who was not its owner. I think that technology needs to advance more before we see smart guns as a popular safety barrier.