This market report claims that smart guns are the future of firearms. I don’t think that they are. This report can be believed, since the reporter also claims that:
traditional iron sight, which can also help shooters look through an optical telescope for aim, red dot sights project a small light directly onto a target.
So iron sights help you look through a telescope for aim, and red dots project light? How can I take financial advice from someone who obviously doesn’t know what they are talking about?
Then the story goes on to be a bit more misleading.
gun owners overall are 63% male and 73% white, the study found.
Gun owners being 73% white actually means that whites are slightly underrepresented as gun owners, since whites are about 76 percent of the population. Math is a thing.
I don’t see how you can claim that 63% are male, since we don’t seem to know what male or female is any longer.
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It's just Boris · August 30, 2023 at 8:19 am
Turning that around … Lots of women have been buying guns. If just as many women as men owned guns, the poor thing’s head would be in a spin. Equity – yes! women own as many guns as men! – but about icky nasty guns.
The question really should be, why are more people buying guns, and have been for 3-4 years now, than normal? What kind of a signal is that sending?
Aesop · August 31, 2023 at 9:53 am
3-4 years??
Try 30-40.
With curious much larger spikes during the Carter, Clinton, Obozo, and Emperor Poopypants eras, and every time the federal or state authorities start bloviating about gun control.
Clever readers will spot a trend there.
dc · August 30, 2023 at 8:30 am
I guess those shooters in Chicago rent firearms rather than own, richtig?
EJ · August 30, 2023 at 9:25 am
Would it be possible to enable full-text in the RSS feeds?
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Thanks!
Unknownsailor · August 30, 2023 at 10:31 am
News media has gotten reporting on firearms wrong as long as I have been politically aware, which is the late 1980s. Reporters today are exclusively college trained, unlike when I was a kid. As such, they are of the “professional” class, and almost always come from urban cities. At the national level none of them know anyone who has one, personally, and none of them own any themselves, so they try, badly, to report on firearms from the outside, as an uninformed novice.
You see the results. Gell Mann Amnesia Effect applies, like always.
Vitaeus · August 30, 2023 at 11:43 am
Smartgun-fail state locked = rock
Smartgun-fail state unlocked= what is gained for extra complexity
More maintenance, more cost…ee where this is going?
TRX · August 30, 2023 at 12:58 pm
Somewhere between 25 and 35% (depending on whose figures you believe) of policemen are shot with their own guns. I would expect police departments would be all over the “smart gun” thing.
Also, the military, which could deny otherwise-useable firearms to the enemy. For example, the trove of small arms they abandoned to the Taliban.
I’ll stick with my Model 1911, I think.
Alein · August 30, 2023 at 5:48 pm
The government can already freeze your bank accounts if they want to. They are discussing mandatory installation of a cut-off switch available to the police in your automobile. Locking up your firearm at will is just another step in the same direction. The age of self reliance is waning.
EN2 SS · August 30, 2023 at 8:28 pm
Isn’t saying “stupid reporters” redundant?
McChuck · August 30, 2023 at 8:31 pm
Non-Hispanic Whites (you know, actual Americans) are only 59% of the population residing inside the boundaries of our formerly great nation.
Divemedic · August 31, 2023 at 9:39 am
Yeah, but that isn’t how the government compiles the reporting. Hispanics are listed as either white or black, depending on race. Hispanic is an ethnicity. It isn’t how popular culture looks at it, but this is the government we are talking about.
Aesop · August 31, 2023 at 9:50 am
There they go, assuming peoples’ gender again.
By actual data, 99% of reporters are 30 or more IQ points below the mean.
The ones at the more leftward edge of that range (where fungus lives) become editors and publishers.
The pretty ones get on TV.
Their survey people tend to be idiot savants much like Raymond Babbitt, who can count toothpicks and cards, but think that cars and candy bars both cost “about a dollar”.
Newspapers are tablecloths for painting, and lining for litter boxes.
On their best day.
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