So says the director of John Hopkins University’s “Center for Gun Policy and Research”. In a puff piece published in the Washington Post (4/5/00, p. B8) Stephen Teret who advised Maryland Gov. Parris Glendening on so-called “smart guns” was quoted, “We move ahead in gun policy in small steps. I’m confident we will have personalized guns.” What that really means is: “We are very patient.
If it takes 30 years to disarm you we can wait. But we will disarm you.”

So-called “personalized”, or “smart” guns don’t exist. The rank and file police don’t want them (and are exempt from any laws Maryland passes concerning them). And their eventual cost would put them out of the reach of many ordinary people. Thus, “smart” guns is really a code word for no guns.

In 1976 one of the founders of HCI talked about taking things “one step at a time.”