Would guns be safer if they could only be operated by their registered owners? One Colorado weapons tech company is aiming to find out.
Biofire Technologies founder and CEO Kai Kloepfer has spent the past 11 years trying to crack the code on a “smart gun” that can only be fired by certain individuals.
Now Kloepfer says Biofire is readying a product for commercial sale that needs to be “unlocked” by either fingerprint or facial recognition.
“So the smart gun is basically a firearm that it’s always locked by default, but it’s still instantly accessible for the owner,” Kloepfer said of the weapon in a statement.
“So, if a kid finds it, if maybe an assailant takes it away from somebody, it’s going to be unusable,” Kloepfer continued. “We’ve chosen to use both fingerprints and facial recognition where either the fingerprint or the face can be used to unlock the gun, because it makes it a lot more reliable.”
Biofire’s “smart gun” is currently available for pre-order.
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