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The 1911 Sentry from SmartGunz.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

With at least two companies set to release a \u201csmart gun\u201d this year, a new poll<\/a> from Morning Consult claims that 56% of gun owners support developing the, thus far, unproven and unreliable technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a greater percentage of support than that from all U.S. adults (49%) and those who don\u2019t own a firearm (46%). Nineteen percent of gun owners do not have an opinion on smart guns while 24% oppose their development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Smart guns” use a variety of mechanisms, but they all attempt to restrict functionality of a particular firearm to a particular person. Some have tried to incorporate fingerprint technology into a pistol’s grip while others use RFID or Bluetooth communications that allow a gun to be used by a person with the “key.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SmartGunz is set to release their 1911 Sentry to the consumer market in April of this year for $2,195, according to GunsAmerica reporting<\/a> from SHOT Show 2022. Another company, LodeStar Works Inc., is also planning a release of their smart gun by the end of this year. That gun, a 9mm handgun dubbed the LS9, will be available for $900, company CEO Gareth Glaser told Morning Consult.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Based on our conversations with gun owners and industry leaders, support for smart guns depends on whether that technology will be used to ban traditional firearms. If the anti-gun lobby tries to force gun companies to sell smart guns exclusively, we expect support for the technology to fall through the floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SEE ALSO: Biden-Harris Plan Would Ban Online Gun Sales, Force Adoption of Smart Guns<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There is a historic precedent for this assumption. In the 1990s, Smith & Wesson cut a deal with the Clinton administration to develop a smart gun with an eye towards phasing out traditional firearms, and gun owners were so incensed that the company nearly went bankrupt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More recently, New Jersey passed a law that would have banned traditional firearms by requiring gun stores in the state to sell smart guns exclusively<\/a>. The backlash to that law was so intense that even New Jersey lawmakers repealed it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our conversations with smart gun companies indicate that they also oppose mandating smart gun technology. SmartGunz founder Tom Holland said the government should \u201cnever mandate\u201d smart guns, and Glaser told Morning Consult he also opposes those measures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think that as soon as you start trying to regulate or mandate or anything, you risk a tremendous amount of resistance from the American public,\u201d he said. \u201cThis should be a market choice.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SEE ALSO: NJ Gun Stores Must Now Sell Smart Guns<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Morning Consult tried to gauge the level of interest in smart gun mandates, but their question was too vague to draw any meaningful conclusions. They asked respondents whether they would support \u201cregulated legalization,\u201d \u201cprohibition,\u201d or \u201cunregulated legalization\u201d of smart guns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They failed to define what they meant by \u201cregulation.\u201d Regulation could encompass laws like the now-repealed New Jersey law, but it could also mean regulations similar to those that control firearm purchases today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not surprisingly, gun owners opposed the prohibition of smart guns, supported regulated legalization, and were divided on unregulated legalization. If they were told that regulated legalization would ban traditional firearms, those numbers would doubtless look much different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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