Smart guns can go dark remotely

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Some smart guns are built to recognize an authorized user with RFID chips, fingerprint scans, magnetic rings, or other proximity tokens. Others can watch motion and location, then send alerts or let the owner engage or disengage the trigger safety through an app, using geolocate features as a kind of geofencing. A firmware kill switch is the bluntest stroke: a built-in mechanism that shuts a device or service down when activated, turning control into a remote off button. So the real question is whether these safeguards are protection, or corporate hands on the trigger, and where you draw that line.