Or, as I think of them, thrall collars:
Republican Senator John Cornyn of Texas has fired off a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder demanding answers about his plan for a $2 million congressional study on "smart guns."
In Holder's testimony before a House Appropriations subcommittee last week, he said the smart gun research is part of a $382 million government package to pay for a "gun safety" program, according to the Daily Caller.
The futuristic firearms would work only through fingerprint identification or by technology that allows only the owner to pull the trigger when connected to an accompanying electronic bracelet, or by wristwatch, as is the case with the 22-caliber, 10-round Armatix iP1, which is available now.
Okay, I will admit that's kind of cool, as long as such technology was strictly limited to the private sector.....
....but that clearly is not what Eric "The Red" has in mind:
Cornyn, the Senate Minority Whip, wrote in his letter that Holder's plan for potentially forcing people to carry smart guns conflicted with the constitutional rights of Americans.
The letter said, "Your testimony has raised serious concerns for my constituents given President Obama's track-record of acting beyond the scope of his legal authority and your hostility to the individual right to self-defense under the Second Amendment."
Cornyn wanted assurances that the Justice Department would not issue regulations that would mean Americans would have to equip their firearms with costly fingerprint-reading technology or have to link them to biometric bracelets.
Assurances that Senator Cornyn in never going to get. And why would Holder or O give such assurances? "Smart" gun technology gives them everything they want: gun registration and gun owner registration and the ability to "turn off" any gun owner's "smart" gun at any time. It would be tantamount to the firearms having been issued by the feds to American citizens, with the ability to take them back whenever the former chose. It would functionally repeal the Second Amendment without having to bother with that tiresome constitutional amendment process that a "smart gun" Amendment could never clear.
Senator Cornyn must be aware of this. So what is the purpose of going through the motions of this protocol-laden artifice? Perhaps to provoke the Commissariat of Injustice & Revenge to bulldoze ahead with mandatory "smart gun-ization" in advance of the November midterm election? That would certainly further endear Democrats to the broader electorate.
Which tells us when we can expect this latest jam-down to impact - next year, when even the Senate will be beyond the reach of White House puppetry.
Pity the thrall collars won't come with an Iron Man suit.
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