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Do Americans want to buy 'smart' guns?

  • Written by Lacey Wallace, Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, Pennsylvania State University

Recently legislators and special interest groups have pushed for greater availability of “smart” guns as a safety and crime-reduction tool. Then-President Barack Obama called for more research into “smart” gun technology in January 2016, and that April issued a memorandum calling for government-led research into smart guns...

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