If I get elected president of the United States of America with your help, if that happens, guns, we have the capacity now in a James Bond-style to make sure no one can pull a trigger unless their DNA and fingerprint is on it. We have that capacity to do it now. You know it.
Joe Biden
June 2019
Joe Biden: Build ‘James Bond-Style’ Guns That Don’t Fire Without DNA Match
[I suppose this technically true. It’s just that the DNA sample would have to taken to a lab, processed for a day or ten, then the results returned to the gun to give the gun the bang/no-bang decision. Unless, of course, Biden is mostly living in an alternate universe that has a different technology base than the universe the rest of are living in.
Even if the gun had technology for DNA matching built into the gun, at a reasonable price, and could process the result in a fraction of a second, the gun still wouldn’t protect against most of the scenarios the anti-gun people claim to want to protect against. We shed DNA all over the place. If some kid wants to shoot their parent’s gun a DNA sample is as available the parent’s hair brush. Some bad gun has grabbed a cop’s gun? If he whacks the cop along side the head with the butt of the gun and he has the grip dripping in cop DNA.
I’ve changed my mind. Biden doesn’t live in a alternate reality. He is just amazingly stupid. He has crap for brains and should be retired to an old folks home and encouraged to watch CSI reruns.—Joe]
Saying Biden has crap for brains is an insult to crap.
Valid point.
Crap will, after all, produce flowers.
Under the appropriate circumstances Biden would too.
I must say my first thoughts on the DNA BS were, how does the gun sample it, and how long does processing take? And again we have the dead power source problem, plus all those stated above.
The parental dna testing for those coming overt the border should take about 90 minutes and not days. That said attaching a well equip lab to you firearms seems improbable. https://www.wired.com/story/how-dna-testing-at-the-us-mexico-border-will-actually-work/
I’m sure that with another nine million dollars Elizabeth Holmes who founded Theranos could find a way to put it all in a thimble-sized lab on the pistol.
I meant Billion.
“…should be retired to an old folks home and encouraged to watch CSI reruns”
Not a lot of reality in those shows. Browse http://mausersandmuffins.blogspot.com/ for more on that. She manages one of those types of departments for the feds. IIRC, laughter is a common response of hers when she sees an episode.