You want some common-sense gun control? Here you go.

[backscatter712]

85. How about some technological proposals.

1. RFID/NFC-based interlocks installed on all new weapons. The weapon's owner needs to be carrying an RFID tag or NFC device, which can be an RFID tag in a card, or a NFC-capable smartphone, or even an implanted RFID tag (sort of like when you get your dog or cat chipped at the vet in case he gets lost...) The gun would have an electronic interlock with an RFID/NFC reader built into it, paired to the owner's tag/device, and it will only unlock the gun and enable it to fire when the tag is detected. For the sake of those complaining that such interlocks are unreliable, I would recommend that these devices be engineered to "five-nines" reliability (In other words, 99.999% reliable - it works 99,999 times out of 100,000.) Rigging guns so they will not fire when in the hands of unauthorized people would save a lot of lives.

2. Mandatory gun cameras. As anyone who's ever seen a cell phone or web cam knows, digital camera technology is extremely miniaturizable. You can get a relatively inexpensive camera system with a digital camera-on-a-chip, a small battery, a micro-USB interface and a micro-SD card, in a package that can be built into the gun itself, or fit on many pistol's or rifle's accessory rails. The total size can be as small as the end of your pinky. Of course, at minimum, the camera would be rigged to take a picture every time the gun is fired. Alternative modes could include continuous recording in a loop (when the memory is exhausted, the camera starts overwriting old footage), recording triggered by a motion-detection algorithm (so when you pull the gun out of its holster or storage case, and the camera detects movement, it records), and so on. This could be very handy for investigations after someone's been shot. Oh sure, the smart criminal would disable these devices, but in many cases, they don't.