NYPD Working on 'Talking' Guns to Prevent Friendly Fire
After Detective Omar Edwards was shot and killed by friendly fire while in plain clothes on May 28th, New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly began seeking a way for firearms to communicate with one another in order to stop accidents like this from happening again.According to FOX News, the NYPD has initiated preliminary discussions about such devices with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNL), a government research lab. Ideas include using radio frequency tags that would allow cops to precisely locate other cops in the city, and gun-to-gun infrared sensors that would warn nearby officers whenever another removed his pistol from the holster.
At this point, the ideas are only that (the radio frequency tags strike the PNL as impractical), but the PNL is set to speak to the NYPD next week. Let's hope that these discussions are fruitful, and serve to protect those who serve and protect us. [From: FOX News]
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dmwoodcock said 5:25PM on 6-08-2009
You have got to be kidding, what happens when a criminal get's one of these talking guns, will it say, "I will not shoot"? What happen to accountability?
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richheitz said 6:54PM on 6-08-2009
Way too many ways for something to go wrong with that. Sounds like a good way to get a cop killed due to a malfunction.
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