Originally posted by Mountain Man
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Back in the 70's, there was an attempt to push police to a technology where a ring worn on your gun hand 'ring finger' would engage a magnetic mechanism in the grip of the firearm that would only allow the firearm to fire if that ring were present. It didn't go over, because too many times an officer is required to fire his weapon in less than "textbook" fashion, and the thing simply did not work reliably.
There were numerous attempts to come up with a solution where only the police officer could fire his own weapon, due to the fact that, so often, in a scuffle, the subject grabs the cop's gun and shoots the cop.
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