{"id":7240,"date":"2016-04-08T14:45:30","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T22:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/episode-694-the-gun-that-wouldnt-shoot\/"},"modified":"2016-04-08T14:45:30","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T22:45:30","slug":"episode-694-the-gun-that-wouldnt-shoot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/episode-694-the-gun-that-wouldnt-shoot\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 694: The Gun That Wouldn't Shoot"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Not a smart gun. LA Johnson\/NPR<\/strong> hide caption<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Colt is an iconic American gun company. It has a proud history of invention. It perfected the revolver before the Civil War. One advertising slogan went, “God created man, Sam Colt made them equal.” Big words for a big leap for the gun industry. The company also manufactured the famous M16 rifle for the U.S. military during the Vietnam War. The Colt .45 name even inspired a malt liquor.<\/p>\n

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Stephen Sliwa, then president of Colt, holds a prototype of the company’s “smart gun” at the Colt plant in West Hartford, Conn., in 1998. BOB CHILD\/ASSOCIATED PRESS<\/strong> hide caption<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But by the 1990s, Colt had fallen on hard times. Gun-control activists were on the march. Lawsuits were threatening gun company profits. Colt was facing bankruptcy.<\/p>\n

And in 1994, an unlikely savior entered the Colt story. Donald Zilkha had a plan to revive the company by doubling down on Colt’s history of invention. He was going to build the next great leap forward in firearms: a safer gun. He imagined a smart gun that would only fire for an authorized user.<\/p>\n

It did not go as he planned.<\/p>\n

And nearly two decades later, his story explains why we can have a smartphone that only unlocks with its owner’s fingerprints, but we can’t have a gun that does the same.<\/p>\n

Music: “Food Court Epiphanies<\/a>.” Find us: Twitter<\/a>\/ Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Let’s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> (Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n

Source:: http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/money\/2016\/04\/08\/473581490\/episode-694-the-gun-that-wouldnt-shoot?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=business<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"Not<\/a><\/div>\n
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Not a smart gun. LA Johnson\/NPR<\/strong> hide caption<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

toggle caption<\/strong> LA Johnson\/NPR<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Colt is an iconic American gun company. It has a proud history of invention. It perfected the revolver before the Civil War. One advertising slogan went, “God created man, Sam Colt made them equal.” Big words for a big leap for the gun industry. The company also manufactured the famous M16 rifle for the U.S. military during the Vietnam War. The Colt .45 name even inspired a malt liquor.<\/p>\n

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Stephen Sliwa, then president of Colt, holds a prototype of the company’s “smart gun” at the Colt plant in West Hartford, Conn., in 1998. BOB CHILD\/ASSOCIATED PRESS<\/strong> hide caption<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

toggle caption<\/strong> BOB CHILD\/ASSOCIATED PRESS<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

But by the 1990s, Colt had fallen on hard times. Gun-control activists were on the march. Lawsuits were threatening gun company profits. Colt was facing bankruptcy.<\/p>\n

And in 1994, an unlikely savior entered the Colt story. Donald Zilkha had a plan to revive the company by doubling down on Colt’s history of invention. He was going to build the next great leap forward in firearms: a safer gun. He imagined a smart gun that would only fire for an authorized user.<\/p>\n

It did not go as he planned.<\/p>\n

And nearly two decades later, his story explains why we can have a smartphone that only unlocks with its owner’s fingerprints, but we can’t have a gun that does the same.<\/p>\n

Music: “Food Court Epiphanies<\/a>.” Find us: Twitter<\/a>\/ Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Let’s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> (Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}