Fresh evidence that Smith & Wesson is going to have great
difficulties developing and marketing a “smart gun” in just three
years, as they’ve agreed to do, is that Colt’s — the company that
was furtherest along in development — has dropped the project.

Colt had a second generation test gun that used radio waves
interacting with a the user’s special wrist strap.

“It’s a virtually impossible assignment. I don’t mean to say
it can’t be done,” gun industry analyst and old friend George
Rockwell told a Hartford Courant reporter a couple of days ago.
What happens, he asked, “if a police officer drops his or her gun
and then needs to fire it? Or if the gun gets wet? Or the battery
goes dead?”