TRENTON, NJ – Just days after news broke that so-called “smart gun” manufacturer Armitix is in the process of patenting a technology that would allow authorities to control the time and place in which “smart guns” can be used, a national anti-gun group filed suit in New Jersey claiming that the state’s attorney general is failing to comply with the state’s absurd “smart gun” mandate.
The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and a chapter of the Million Mom March allege that New Jersey’s attorney generals office failed to file mandatory biannual reports to the state legislature on the availability of “smart gun” technology. According to the complaint, no reports were filed between 2004 and 2012.
The Brady Campaign’s legal action project director John Lowy said that this lawsuit is “particularly important now because there’s evidence that personalize handguns have been available for sale in at least two locations.” According to New Jersey law, once the technology becomes commercially available, gun owners in the state will have three years to convert their firearms into “smart guns” or run afoul of the law.
But has the technology actually been introduced commercially to the United States? Engage Armament in Maryland and the Oak Tree Gun Club in California both announced that they would be stocking the Armitix .22LR pistol, but both companies decided not to after facing heavy backlash by the pro-Second Amendment community.
Although the plaintiffs claim the lawsuit is not aimed directly at forcing New Jersey to begin it’s three year countdown, the implication is clear: anti-gun activists are bent on ramming technological “solutions” to Second Amendment freedoms down the throats of New Jersey gun owners. This, like everything else anti-Second Amendment activists stand for, is about control.
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