Smart guns.

This was my personal favorite gun in James Cameron's aliens, a masterpiece from Front to Back.

These weapons were wielded by Drake and Vazquez, and were actually steady camera rigs made

up to look like futuristic rifles.

The reality is much scarier, and also seemingly a good way to satisfy both the gun people,

and the rest of the country that just doesn't want to have to worry about dying in a fucking

gun battle while they're at a fucking fun event.

Turns out, smart guns have been around since the 1970s.

The original version had a trigger that was locked by a magnet, and the only person who

could fire the gun is whoever had a companion magnetic ring.

The original version had a trigger that was locked by a magnet, and the only person who

could fire the gun is whoever had the companion magnetic ring that they wore around their

trigger finger.

And this was called the magnet trigger.

So amazing find.

I'm pretty sure you can order that from the back of a cereal box.

Nicholas Tuffnell of the BBC did a pretty in-depth look into the current smart gun technology

in 2014, so God only knows what they fucking have now.

Which if I can sidebar is kind of the unfortunate stupid truth of this episode, because the

future weapons cover up is for the most part pretty clean.

So all I can do is tell you about the shit we do know is real, and then the fun of the

episode for you is to imagine what the military has that we don't know about.

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