Good News! Smart Rifle never misses, now comes in semi-automatic form

[onehandle]

In the near future, you won't even need to know how to fire a rifle to be a crack shot.

At the Consumer Electronic Show, the Austin, Texas-based start-up TrackingPoint showed off its all-new 500 Series AR Smart Rifle, a gun that makes it almost impossible for any user to miss.

TrackingPoint is the inventor of Precision Guided Firearms, a guided shooting system that the company says creates the most accurate guns in the world. The new rifle is the company's first semi-automatic series.

In fact, the system is so accurate that a user will have up to five times the accuracy of an experienced shooter, said Oren Schauble, the company's marketing director.

http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/smart-rifle-never-misses-now-comes-semi-automatic-form-2D11899302

Basement dwellers are masturbating furiously to this.

[Aerows]

1. Posted last year

costs 22,000 dollars. Not new. I really am not fond of gun culture, but I detest "technology agenda driven to the max" even more.

[onehandle]

3. Story from NBC News from 1 hour ago about this year's CES. Much less than 50% of that price.

And technology costs drop by 50% a year on average.

Which means that Walmart might be selling these for a couple of hundred bucks pretty soon.

[Kingofalldems]

2. Here they come.

[aikoaiko]

4. And the anti-gunnies are fapping to the idea of ...

...basement dwellers masturbating furiously to this.

I don't know which is weirder.

[RadleyJ]

5. So, instead of a poor, inexperianced shooter firing blindly

into a crowd and striking unintended targets before they get their 'man', they can get it right the first time;
but it comes with a price tag.

[Eleanors38]

6. Much as gun "shop talk" should be in the Gungeon, I it

is in reality assigned to Sports-Outdoors. Yet this OP is in neither; old stuff, too.

I'm not sure where "furious masturbation" should go, but Melville speculated it was Typee. I'm impressed, in any case, that those who can spend five-figures for auto-induced stimulation couldn't afford some pleasant assistance, or at least a Motel 6.

[ManiacJoe]

7. Well, someone bought into the marketing hype.

[petronius]

8. Never trust a gun that has a little red button on the bottom... (nt)

[sarisataka]

9. Ooh, gun porn!

Sorry, doesn't do it for me.

I have a smart phone; I'll use the gun equivalent of this:

[beevul]

10. "Too accurate..."

"Too accurate"...Its the new "sprayfiring from the hip", apparently.

Someone wake me when they get their memes figured out.

[clffrdjk]

11. The funniest part about this whole thread

Is that if you anti gun people understood the operation and the steps required to shoot that rifle you would want to pass a law requiring this tech to be included in all firearms.

[MH1]

12. Hey if it raises the cost per gun to 10 or 20K

well most would personally probably prefer a tax that did that, so we could use the money for productive things, and just require universal background checks, registration, and certification ...

but yeah, it would cut down on the number of guns on the street a bit.

[clffrdjk]

13. That is the smallest part of it

The person who posted up thread about the cost coming down was correct, all it will take is time. A tax is a different thing entirely but yes the removal of the poor's ability to defend themselves has been suggested already.

[hack89]

14. Why do you instinctively associate guns with sex?

gun haters and their fascination with the sex lives and genitalia of gun owners has always been a mystery to me.