New safety for Glock 17. Is it possible for perfection to be improved?

HappySquid

Japhy said:

Spk said:

I'll wait for the gun fob.

Simple is ALWAYS better
Designing simple is NEVER easy

and you had to come up with a Kalashnikov quote

Jeeper44mag

Wambli Ska said:

Jeeper44mag said:

Elk creek said:

Zee said:

Watched that the other night…..

Don't recognize that...  what movie?

Luis

Blackhawk Down!!!!!!  Only one of the best movies ever made.  

After returning from the field, ‘Hoot’, a Delta Force soldier played by Eric Bana, is approached by Capt. Steele (Jason Isaacs), a hard-ass commander who immediately grills the operator for carrying a "hot weapon" with the safety set on Fire.

Hoot’s reply — holds up his trigger finger and says “this is my safety, sir”

Ah! Gotcha!  I remember now.  Saw it once many years ago, and remember thinking it was probably one of the most realistic war movies I've seen.

Luis

die_hardgunnut

https://www.ktvu.com/news/company-unveils-smart-gun-that-uses-fingerprint-facial-recognition-to-shoot

What do you think about this?

PFD

I think it will be about as successful as previous attempts.

Diver43

Hollywood may buy it for Alec Baldwin's next movie

Japhy

Any additional components reduce reliability and availability. 

Glocks are designed to grab and shoot wet, dry, clean, dirty every time. 

No electronics, no battery, no microcontroller, no complex sensors. 

If you want a complex electronic firearm by all means buy one but realize they are not defensive weapons

when (not if) any single part of those many complex systems fail you are most likely done. 

GrapeApe

die_hardgunnut said:

What do you think about this?

That it has the potential to get people killed. In the news story I saw about this, the company says, "It can be unlocked in about 1 minute"
If you NEED to use a firearm for self defense, odds are you're going to need it "RIGHT NOW", not in,  "About 1 minute" from now.

PFD said:

I think it will be about as successful as previous attempts.

^^this ^^

Wambli Ska

die_hardgunnut said:

https://www.ktvu.com/news/company-unveils-smart-gun-that-uses-fingerprint-facial-recognition-to-shoot

What do you think about this?

Not just no but HELL NO!!!!  An answer to a non-existent problem.

Japhy

HappySquid said:

Japhy said

Simple is ALWAYS better
Designing simple is NEVER easy

and you had to come up with a Kalashnikov quote

I did not know that was a Kalashnikov quote, I learn something new every time I visit

It is an engineering adage on my mind for about 40 years. It has become completely ingrained my thinking on just about everything. At this moment I am thinking those lines may contain excess words

maybe: Simple equals better, designing simple equals hard

die_hardgunnut

GrapeApe said:

die_hardgunnut said:

What do you think about this?

That it has the potential to get people killed. In the news story I saw about this, the company says, "It can be unlocked in about 1 minute"
If you NEED to use a firearm for self defense, odds are you're going to need it "RIGHT NOW", not in,  "About 1 minute" from now.

PFD said:

I think it will be about as successful as previous attempts.

^^this ^^

I was thinking the same thing... "less than a minute" leaves you with 59 sec = plenty of time to die. Hopefully Ian from "forgotten weapons"  picks it up and makes a YouTube video about it.