Gun with a chip: U.S. Army contracts may lead to a smarter firearm


  • World
  • Friday, 18 Oct 2019

Melvic Smith, CEO of Dimensional Weapons Systems, holds an early prototype weapon at the company's office in College Park, Georgia, U.S., October 11, 2019. Picture taken October 11, 2019. REUTERS/Elijah Nouvelage

(Reuters) - A carbine that can call in an airstrike. A computer-aided scope on a machine gun that can turn just about anyone into a marksman.Even firearms that measure and record every movement, from the angle of the barrel to the precise moment of each shot fired, which could provide law enforcement with a digital record of police shootings.

The application of information technology to firearms has long been resisted in the United States by gun owners and law-enforcement officials who worry they could be hacked, fail at the wrong moment, or invite government control.

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