In my case, yes to both. The MiracleTech system you are describing has no drawbacks, so of course I’d want to use it myself and to see it widely used.
“all” the things? Meteorite knocking the gun out my hand? My clown mask which I wore to be that night slipping a bit and the eyeholes not lining up? etc.
Actually, you’d be surprised at just how LITTLE is involved in keeping an older firearm in working condition. Keep it dry, keep it lubricated, and (especially if it uses black powder) clean it promptly after each use. That’s pretty much all that is needed. Guns are very durable.
See, firearms are an interesting exception to his general rule. The last time a big change occurred that effectively made older weapons obsolete was in the late 19th century, when modern smokeless powder replaced black powder. No one would choose to drive a Model T Ford every day on our modern roads, but plenty of people own and use 100 year old firearms which still work perfectly well. They are in no way obsolete.
electronics likewise can be very durable,but are much more unpredictable. Like that batch of bad capacitors in the early 2000’s. Problems with perpendicular storage hard drives. Bad firmwares, ECM failures in cars, I could go on. the more complexity you add the more chances of failure.
Guns are basically just springs and rods and some steel tubes.
that’s why you wait for the first service pack before adopting hence when cops have them thing.
Yes. Some things eventually reach the limits of perfection, given the constraints of physics. Firearms may be one. I’ve got a side by side Spanish twenty gauge shotgun in my safe. English grip, splinter fore end, fast as anything, six pounds and balanced to feel like half of that. I really doubt there’ll ever be a grouse/woodcock gun that’s significantly better than that. And the design is around 100 years old, I think.
Knives are another thing that have pretty much reached their practical limits. I’d make a bet that 500 years from know, knives look pretty much like they do know, and are made of the same stuff.
Not me. If they could make a knife that would cut through turkey like butter, yet not cut through my thumb like margarine, I’d be damn happy. 
It probably need some sort of electronic sensor that instantly dulls the blade if it approaches human flesh. If this could be done for about $5 and be 100% reliable, would you buy it?
I’m such a klutz, if it cost $100 and was 5% reliable I’d buy it.
+1
I learned to use a gun in the Boy Scouts and I have seen the anxiety over guns melt away with a couple of lessons with a firearms instructor and a couple of weekends at the range.
Not a knife but a table saw that will stop the blade if it hits flesh.
I don’t mind. But I am advising you that, your personal view of yourself as pro-gun-rights notwithstanding, your participation in these discussions does not generally appear to most observers as pro-gun-rights.
The same maintenance required of any rifle: regular lubrication,cleaning after firing.
You have any experience with firearms at all?
That’s pretty cool.
It’s like that guy you know “that’s not racist” but won’t stop using the N-word.
Gawd. My MIL has a car that does that. Drives me nuts. The ‘Take the hands of the lawn mower and it kills the engine BS’ is much much worse.
My Pathfinder has VSC (Vehicle Stability Control) that I thankfully can turn off. It is pretty impressive though. Just not for all situations.
The magical gun lock mentioned upthread would be great.
Which makes the comparison even further out of fucking whack.
Dead kids v the potential that firearm *might *malfunction in the exceedingly rare instance that you *may *need shoot an intruder.
Most observers? I must have missed that poll, Bricks. The same 3 or 4 people in every thread making multiple vague accusations, none of whom can seem to find an actual solid anti-gun post from me but “knows a duck when they see one”, don’t seem to qualify as most observers to me.
I would like “smart” guns to be perfected to the point that gun owners would be satisfied.
I would like their use to be voluntary.
I would like the 2nd Amendment to be cleaned up, with the annoying “militia” beginning removed.
I think Wayne LaPierre is a nutcase rabble-rouser and should shut the hell up.
Whenever I state these opinions, the same small group of “duck watchers”, who claim to speak for the rest of the board, drop in to sneer and call me “anti-gun”.
Its the same thing that makes my mother-in law nervous around black people. Mostly, lack of exposure combined with media portrayals that reinforce that apprehension.
The Colt armories " trained several seminal generations of toolmakers and other machinists, who had great influence in other manufacturing efforts of the next half century."
It might be useful.
As long as the gun has no springs under tension (and revolver generally don’t and bolt action rifles like the Enfield don’t), if it is well oiled, it should be able to sit in a box for years and work without a hitch.
I’d probably use mine to hunt unicorns.
A 1% failure rate is far, far better than the current failure rate. Currently, there is a high rate of “self-defense” or “home protection” guns being used to kill the very people they are supposed to be protecting. That’s not only a failure; it’s a particularly bad form of failure, and the “smart gun” technologies would help to reduce that number.
Plus, of course, the question isn’t even about the already-impressively-reliable current technology. The pro-gun faction boycotts manufacturers just for attempting to do R&D on such technology. How do you expect them to get any more reliable, if people fight tooth and nail against any attempt to do so?