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To: neolib who wrote (152626)	11/24/2004 6:26:01 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

OT I won't claim that camera enabled guns will take gun violence to zero, but there are certainly system level approaches that could drastically reduce the rate in the USA. I hardly think that is certain. Weight, balance, performance, and price are NOT the issue. They are major issues, perhaps some of them can be dealt with but you can't deal with all of them easily or without compromises. BTW, the technology does not all need to be embedded in the gun. It could be a system level approach with ammunition sales enabled by documenting the expended ammo previously purchased. I could make second amendment or libertarian arguments against such a scheme but there are simple practical arguments against it, the biggest being that its to easy to make/reload ammo, and ammo is also small and not hard to smuggle to people who for some reason can not make it. As for "documenting the expended ammo previously purchased", what sort of documentation are you looking for? If I shoot a person and shoot 999 rounds in to a target whats to stop me from claiming that I shot 1000 rounds in to the target? It looks like only the crime scene evidence would be a check on that claim, and we already have the ability to check crime scene evidence. Tim