Or any person that understands the safe and proper operation of any firearm they happen to own or use.
Another factor the author failed to take into consideration is hunting and sport shooting.How would a firearm know the difference between a human and a deer or a bear or boar or fowl?
The idea of a firearm broadcasting its location is the best to me the tracking system would look like the stars in the sky utterly useless.
It is funny to me how stupid Americans are people get all worried about gun violence yet they will drive down the road texting which is many times more likely to kill you.People run traffic lights all the time in the US another activity much more likely to cause your death or they try to out run a train at a crossing.
7,770 people died in accidents caused by a vehicle running a traffic light in 2008 around 2,000 people each year die in railroad crossing accidents(sadly they suffer a double whammy as they also failed physics).I read in a Time magazine that since 1984 375 people have been killed in shooting sprees but that list included 3 sprees that occurred outside the US.I list shooting sprees because this is what everyone is concerned about.
http://www.tdi.texas.gov/pubs/videor...lroadcross.pdf
http://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/intersection/redlight/