Can a weapon first envisioned by a 15-year-old schoolboy reduce the number of shooting deaths?
In an office parking lot about halfway between Denver and Boulder in Colorado, a former 15-metre-long shipping container has been converted into a cramped indoor shooting range. Paper targets with torsos printed on them hang from two parallel tracks, and a rubber trap waits at the back of the container to catch the spent bullets.
Some recent attempts have amounted to little more than a sensor or two slapped on to an existing weapon. More promising products have required too many steps and taken too much time to fire compared with the speed of a conventional handgun.What separates the Biofire Smart Gun here in the converted shipping container is that its ID systems, which scan fingerprints and faces, have been thoroughly melded into the firing mechanism.
Advances in technology have made cars safer, and Kloepfer says the gun industry needs to apply those lessons, too. “I’m not from Silicon Valley, so I don’t think technology can solve every problem,” he says. “But I do think America has a unique ability to solve some complicated sociopolitical problems with technology.”
The vast majority of Silicon Valley investors have dismissed the field as a money pit, and it will be tough for Biofire to sell enough guns to show its impact with any clarity anytime soon. After the Aurora shooting, Kloepfer became obsessed with gun violence and how he might help reduce it. He couldn’t figure out how to stop something like Aurora, but he thought a smart gun might at least head off a number of accidental shootings and youth suicides.
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