Gun rights advocates oppose "safe gun" Inbox
From Geraldo
Maryland dealer, under pressure from gun-rights activists, drops plan
to sell smart gun
Video: Andy Raymond, owner of Rockville gun store Engage Armament, who
vowed to sell the nation’s first smart gun, backed down after threats
from gun enthusiasts.
A Rockville gun store owner who said he would sell the nation’s first
smart gun — even after a California gun store removed the weapon from
its shelves to placate angry gun-rights activists — backed down late
Thursday night after enduring a day of protests and death threats. ...
Raymond had said he’s on the "right-wing vanguard of gun rights" but
is vehemently opposed to gun rights activists arguing against the idea
of a smart gun — or any gun. ...
"To me that is so fricking hypocritical," Raymond had said. "That’s
the antithesis of everything that we pro-gun, pro-Second Amendment
people should be. You are not supposed to say a gun should be
prohibited. Then you are being no different than the anti-gun people
who say an AR-15 should be prohibited." ...
Besides reliability in the face of danger, the opponents’ most
pressing fear is that sales of the iP1 will trigger a New Jersey law
mandating that all handguns in the state be personalized within three
years of a smart gun’s going on sale anywhere in the United States.
Similar proposals have been introduced in California and Congress. ...
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