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With fingerprint-readers and radio frequency identification, smart guns will only fire in the hands of specific, authorized shooters. Though not new, such technology would undoubtedly help in preventing the tens of thousands of injuries and deaths each year from gun accidents. However, the development and sale of these guns have been jammed amid gun industry claims that few people would buy them.
Now, a group of public health researchers say that those claims are way off target.
In a nationally representative survey, 59 percent of people reported that they were willing to buy a smart gun. Among gun owners, 43 percent said they’d consider one, while 33 percent said they were undecided. The safer, childproof weapons even sparked interest among non-gun owners—nearly two thirds of people who don’t currently own a gun said they’d be interested in buying a smart gun.
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