James Bond and Guns

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Originally Posted by WETWRKS

And...just how long will it take the gov to make an item that scrambles that component and perminantly disable the firearms in an area?

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And that's my other concern.

So you got tossed to the pavement by the bad guys and skinned your hands but no matter, you whip out your ultra-highspeed Les Baer Custom with the extended mag and palm-scanning security just to hear it say "Identity Unconfirmed. Reset and try again."

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Originally Posted by WETWRKS

And...just how long will it take the gov to make an item that scrambles that component and perminantly disable the firearms in an area? Or for a criminal to make an item that unlocks all of these in his general area?

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That and then guns would also be susceptible to EMP's, which is right when you're likely going to need them most for protection.

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Originally Posted by Aloha_Shooter

So you got tossed to the pavement by the bad guys and skinned your hands but no matter, you whip out your ultra-highspeed Les Baer Custom with the extended mag and palm-scanning security just to hear it say "Identity Unconfirmed. Reset and try again."

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Diabetes type blood tester that pokes your palm and then uses the on-board dna profiler? [Dunno]

That crap didn't even work in Judge Dredd

There are criminals breaking DoD Level encryption.
People hacking cars

Do you think a microchip on a gun is going to deter them?

"when you make something idiot proof, they build a better idiot."

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Originally Posted by WETWRKS

And...just how long will it take the gov to make an item that scrambles that component and perminantly disable the firearms in an area? Or for a criminal to make an item that unlocks all of these in his general area?

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Yep, that would suck ass. I would never trust it.

I don't even like a safety on my pistols

Didn't Colt or S&W try that? I remember a press conference where they brought the gun in from a test fire and the gun wouldn't work (overheated(?) after a few rounds)?
They dropped the project after that.

Current state of the art AES256 attacks take 2^126 operations. Assuming the criminal had unlimited resources, the sun would supernova before he found an answer. I mean, we are talking about the age of the universe times one billion. There isn't enough energy in the Earth to power enough 90% efficient computers to perform even one of these attacks.

So, no, there are no criminals (or anything else) breaking AES256 yet. There's an XKCD cartoon about something very similar.

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/security.png

A microchip on a firearm would just lead to all sorts of fun things, really. Why do you think there aren't any electronic solenoid fired commercial firearms? Because (other than having to carry a charged battery to function) that firearm + a 555 timer and various parts costing under $1 from RadioShack = selectable rate of fire limited only by the physics of the timing of the blowback and feed mechanisms. It would be very similar to the Metalstorm (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEu9LLQpOF8) weapon, but handheld.