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    | CA: San Francisco's Police Chief Offers to Field-Test Smart Guns Submitted by: 
			
Mark A. Taff
 Website: http://www.marktaff.com
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    | San Francisco police are welcoming the chance to become the country’s biggest smart gun proving site as police chief Greg Suhr offered to equip the department’s tech heads with the weapons in a speech this week.
 
 “Officer safety is huge, so you wouldn’t want to compel that upon officers,” Suhr told audiences at a smart gun symposium in San Francisco. “But we have so many officers who are so into technology, I am all but certain there are officers that would be willing to do such a pilot.”
 
 The weapons could only be fired by an authenticated owner, which Suhr reasonably called a “good thing” for law enforcement.
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     jac
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    | Grandstanding. 
 How many cops do you believe will actually sign up to carry a gun that might not work when it was needed?
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    | Comment by: 
     PHORTO
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    | "The weapons could only be fired by an authenticated owner," - and immediately disabled by EMP technology wielded by government. 
 No sale.
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