Comments by "geodkyt" (@geodkyt) on "Armatix iP1 Smart Gun at the BackUp Gun Match" video.

  1. I want my smartphone biometrics to be as reliable as an AK; I don't want an AK that is as reliable as a smartphone.
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  2. It makes sense if you are thinking "machine tools". But the worldwide universal default for guns is "Red means dangerous", i.e., "red means can go bang".
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  3.  @WeyounLP  There is a very good reason why every proposed "smart gun" requirement specifically exempts police weapons.
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  4. Which is why, every single time one of these laws is proposed , the police demand they be exempted.
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  5. Magna-trigger was invented in 1974 introduced to the US market in *1976*, and involves wearing a magnetic ring on the hand, with the rings being inexpensive enough you could have two and wear one on both hands. No electronics - purely magnetic-mechanical. This was an aftermarket modification for certain revolvers (S&W J, K, L, & N frames and the Ruger Security Six). You have to wear the ring on a specific finger (middle finger for most revolvers, ring finger for the S&W J-frame and Ruger). Still a fizzle in the market (it saw limited use among cops while revolvers were still standard), despite being flogged by techies for decades. I just checked, and there seems to be ONE shop still offering this modification, at a cost of $360 for most S&W revolvers, and $750 on a J-frame or Ruger. That's the price on a customer-provided gun. The rings were also "universal", so any Magna-Trigger ring would work with any Magna-Trigger. You could also.disable the safety by merely having a small magnet taped to the appropriate finger. Oh, and it was only compatible with some revolver grips - if you like your Pachmeyers, for instance, the steel insert in the grip means the magnet won't enable the gun, and you have a very expensive paperweight.
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  6. Well, it wasn't even the first RF freq digital gun, much less the first gun to use some kind of user authentication to enable it. Colt publicly demonstrated the technology in the late 1990s on their failed Z40 handgun (a CZ design - Colt had CZ develop it, and specified it had to "look.like a 1911, kinda", be in .40S&W, and be DAO, because Colt was aiming for the police market). In fact, the public outcry due to thebvery same law hammered Colt so hard they dropped the Z40 altogether, as the Smart Gun was supposed to be the cornerstone of the line. CZ reworked the gun (without the smartgun crap) slightly to DA/SA and briefly sold it as the CZ40, before it went out of production. And the Z40 demonstrator came.out 20 years after Magna-Trigger was actually commercially viable and being sold for police use. This .22LR POS was neither ground breaking, good, nor useful.
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  7. Larger than a plethora of handguns with better triggers, better sights, and better cartridges... Heck, a milsurp P-64 is smaller, very snag free, and has a better trigger (despite me frequently describing it as having a Magilla Gorilla DA trigger - before I changed the springs, the DA pull exceeded the 25lbs caoacity.of the fish scale i had to use to measure the trigger... after replacing all the springs with a Wolff spring set, the DA pull was still 19lbs). Plus, 9x18mm Makarov (even in milsurp ball) is a far better defensive cartridge than any .22LR cartridge, both in reliability and terminal effectiveness. And the sights on the P-64, while miniscule, are precise and every example I have fired has been perfectly regulated. Literally the only thing on this gun that is superior to a milsurp pistol that Communist Poland replaced while Reagan was President, is the mag release (the P-64 uses a heel catch). But Hungary made a similar pistol (a nearly straight PPK clone derived from their straight PP clone) in .380 amd 9x18mm, that used the Walther PP/PPK "American" push button release, and while.not ambi, is easily.activated left handed if needed.
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  8. If the gun was any good as a target pistol. Of.course, you could just take a really good target pistol of any design, and stick it in a locked safe when you aren't at the range, so the Magic Gun Lock is useless even then - if you're only.pulling it out for target practice, you aren't storing or carrying it around loaded anyway.
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  9. You can - a few years ago I watched a video where someone did exactly that.
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  10. Or red for Fire ("hot") and blue for No Fire ("cold").
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  11.  @themaniomarian  If your defensive gun MUST be fired two handed, that's a problem. In the Real World, there arenmany very common situations where you simply don't have one hand free in the middle.of a self defense situation. Which is why we practice with both hands, weak hand only, and strong hand only. (It's generally accepted that if you can use a two hand grip for a shot, you'll likely.be shooting strong handed...☆) ☆ Although I do practice two handed weak hand shooting with one gun that I only carry weak side pocket carry, because I might reasonably need to use it while I can get a two handed grip, but might not have time to swap hands for a proper strong side two handed grip. I don't advocate the need for that for everyone - in my case it's due to a pretty niche use case that is far more likely.to come up for me, due to my carry method with that gun. Much as practicing reloaded a revolver with Speed Strips only makes sense if you actually carry a revolver and Speed Strips.
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  12. Which he did. And which doesn't help much if you have to swtich to weak hand while your normal gun hand cannot necessarily.be close enough. Fun fact - all sorts of factors (many of which are entirely out of your control and fairly common in the Real World) can affect the range of the RF system significantly. Also, even as an "anti-struggle safety" (one of the claimed use cases promoted by the inventor), if you're involved in a strugglemover your gun, it is nearly certain that the watch will be within activation range of the handgun, even if the Bad Guy is holding it and you don't have any of your hands on the gun.
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