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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... uracy.html
New Australian army rifle to be FOUR TIMES deadlier on the battlefield with biometric facial and fingerprint recognition
Lithgow Arms is developing a rifle of the future for Australian soldiers in battle
It would feature a digital sensor to improve the accuracy of shooting targets
The 2kg lightweight gun would also have high-tech biometric security features
By Stephen Johnson For Daily Mail Australia
Published: 01:48 EDT, 31 October 2019 | Updated: 01:49 EDT, 31 October 2019

Australian soldiers could soon be using a locally-designed digital rifle that is four times deadlier than the lightweight guns they now use in battle.
Lithgow Arms, which supplied the guns used by the Gallipoli Diggers in 1915, is developing a 21st century weapon that can significantly enhance a soldier's accuracy when they fired their first shot.
It is working on a weapon, known internally as the Advanced Future Soldier Weapon System, that would feature a digital sensor that identified targets better than a skilled marksman.
1. I don't want one.
2. Nancy Pelosi and Charles Schumer don't want me to have one.
3. Therefore, I want one.


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And the biometric "features" are guaranteed to fail in desperate conditions, thus getting the soldier with this weapon killed.

What a great idea.
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Engineer kid that used to work for us did his senior project as RFID AR trigger lock out. Worked, but he and his team had no plans to develop it because of some weird laws in other states. That, and didn't want it to become such that you were potentially require to have it...

Smart kids.
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Can it be programmed to detect political party registration?
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I feel like this takes all the fun and love out of the sport lmao
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Kinda always been an analog weapon kind a guy.
That said the fuzzy buzz words sound more like a smart optic than a smart rifle. Maybe a camera looking forward and a screen for an eyepiece with some movement/heat sensing capability .
Who knows , still takes a finger on the bang switch I suppose.
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Flash wrote: October 31st, 2019, 12:52 pm And the biometric "features" are guaranteed to fail in desperate conditions, thus getting the soldier with this weapon killed.

What a great idea.
Exactly the reason why I felt it would be four times deadlier!!!
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