Eric Holder wants to explore smart bracelets for gun owners

 Eric Holder has a new idea which he calls a “common sense” gun control measure. This idea includes a “smart bracelet” which a gun owner would have to wear in order to fire his or her weapon. He bills this as a way to ensure only the lawful owner of a firearm could fire that weapon but it goes much deeper than that in my opinion.

  Here is what he said in support of this idea:

“One of the things we learned when we were trying to pass those common sense reforms last year, Vice President Biden and I had a meeting with a group of technology people and talked about how guns can be made more safe by making them either though fingerprint identification, the gun talks to a bracelet that you might wear, how guns can be used only by the person who is lawfully in possession of the weapon,” said Holder, referring to so-called “smart gun” technology.

“It’s those kinds of things that I think we want to try to explore so that people have the ability to enjoy their Second Amendment rights while at the same time decreasing the misuse of weapons that lead to the kinds of things we see on a daily basis, where people, kids especially, are struck down.”

  It is no secret that the gun grabbing anti-second amendment advocates have long desired two things; fingerprinting law abiding gun owners and creating a national registry of gun owners and the firearms which they possess. What is this if it is not an attempt at accomplishing both of those goals through backdoor legislation?

  The keyword in Eric Holder’s statement is ‘fingerprint.’ While this might not be an actual fingerprint–it could be–but rather an electronic fingerprint via a security code or some other electronic means it is still a fingerprint nonetheless and it will be used to track people who have done nothing wrong. And when all gun owners are required to purchase a smart bracelet what is this if it is not a defacto registration for all gun owners and all of their weapons will be on record.

  Why should law abiding gun owners be forced to be fingerprinted as a common criminal simply for exercising their second amendment right? And who else wears a bracelet by order of the State? People who have committed crimes are forced in some cases to wear ankle bracelets, that’s who.

  The vast majority of gun owners have never, and will never, commit a crime with a gun but we are the ones who are constantly targeted by the gun grabbers because gun control is not about stopping crime, it is about control.

  And what will happen with all of the weapons which are legally owned at this time but are not equipped with the fingerprinting technology? Will they be grandfathered, or will gun owners be forced to equip them with the technology, at their own expense, or face confiscation?

  This is something that bears watching…..