Federal Government Researchs Tech To Remotely Track, Disrupt

GURPS

GURPS

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Federal Government Researchs Tech To Remotely Track, Disrupt, Destroy Guns




Scratch many people in the tech sector and you’ll find a totalitarian underneath. They sincerely think that technology can save the world… provided that they’re the ones controlling it, of course.

I guess it shouldn’t be surprising, then, that these high tech totalitarians are conspiring with the Obama Administration to undermine the Second Amendment.

The right to bear arms is hot topic in our society; many polls show a slight majority of the American public leaning towards the Second Amendment. So, for a moment, let’s take getting rid of guns off the table and think outside the box. Let’s turn off our pro- or anti-gun sentiments and click on our tech knowledge.

One idea slowly garnishing interest and influence is GPS tracking in guns. This is not a new idea. The federal government has been experimenting with using wireless Nano and GPS technologies to track, disrupt, and even self-destruct firearms for at least two years. The project – known as micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) – utilizes Nano devices created by engineers that can affect a weapon’s operation. MEMS capabilities could be built into U.S. weapons within three to five years and the market for this technology would be around $1.1 billion dollars, Bloomberg Businessweek reported.​
 
PeoplesElbow

PeoplesElbow

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Lol, batteries die, especially ones used to transmit a location. Simple, buy gun with GPS tracking, put it in a gun safe for a year or so until the battery dies. The safe will block any GPS signal out.
 
GWguy

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PeoplesElbow said:
Lol, batteries die, especially ones used to transmit a location. Simple, buy gun with GPS tracking, put it in a gun safe for a year or so until the battery dies. The safe will block any GPS signal out.
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Sophisticated RFI tags don't need batteries and can transmit their GPS info when passed near an RFI scanner. Everywhere you go you can be tracked.
 
glhs837

glhs837

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MEMS can be are more akin to self winding watches when it comes to power.

http://amsl.engin.umich.edu/publications/08SmartMatCookChennault.pdf

"Two complementary strategies are presently being pursued for portable electronics. The first of these, miniaturization
of power supplies, has included studies of thin film and microbatteries , microcombustors, microheat engines , microturbines and microfuel cells for powering MEMS. The devices listed in
this first category typically fall under the category of nonregenerative power supplies, e.g. systems that have a finite amount or require a continuous supply of active materials or fuel for power generation. The second of these general strategies, in situ regenerative power supplies, can be implemented for standalone or hybrid power systems. Regenerative power technologies include power from microphotovoltaic arrays, microthermophotovoltaic cells, electromagnetic and inductively coupled plasmas, acoustic noise, thermoelectrics, electrostatic, and piezoelectric, devices

The bolded ones, even if you lock the weapon away for years, could activate when you remove it from storage.I imagine as fast as they develop these, if they do, folks will a way to disable them so I don't really see them as a threat. More of an illumination into the minds of those charged with thinking up ways to stop people. .
 
GURPS

GURPS

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PREMO Member
glhs837 said:
I imagine as fast as they develop these, if they do, folks will a way to disable them so I don't really see them as a threat. More of an illumination into the minds of those charged with thinking up ways to stop people. .
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strip the gun to the receiver / frame and put in in an old microwave to 10 sec
-assuming for a moment the micro transmitter will go in the receiver
 
PeoplesElbow

PeoplesElbow

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glhs837 said:
MEMS can be are more akin to self winding watches when it comes to power.

http://amsl.engin.umich.edu/publications/08SmartMatCookChennault.pdf

"Two complementary strategies are presently being pursued for portable electronics. The first of these, miniaturization
of power supplies, has included studies of thin film and microbatteries , microcombustors, microheat engines , microturbines and microfuel cells for powering MEMS. The devices listed in
this first category typically fall under the category of nonregenerative power supplies, e.g. systems that have a finite amount or require a continuous supply of active materials or fuel for power generation. The second of these general strategies, in situ regenerative power supplies, can be implemented for standalone or hybrid power systems. Regenerative power technologies include power from microphotovoltaic arrays, microthermophotovoltaic cells, electromagnetic and inductively coupled plasmas, acoustic noise, thermoelectrics, electrostatic, and piezoelectric, devices

The bolded ones, even if you lock the weapon away for years, could activate when you remove it from storage.I imagine as fast as they develop these, if they do, folks will a way to disable them so I don't really see them as a threat. More of an illumination into the minds of those charged with thinking up ways to stop people. .
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A transmitter takes a lot of power, there is only so much energy available from movement.
 
PeoplesElbow

PeoplesElbow

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GWguy said:
Sophisticated RFI tags don't need batteries and can transmit their GPS info when passed near an RFI scanner. Everywhere you go you can be tracked.
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It doesn't take much to defeat them either.

There is nothing that they can do that someone with a very moderate understanding of electronics would not be able to defeat fairly easily.
 
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