Suppose you are designers in a design office and your senior designer asks you to apply this smart gun design competition.   Could you discuss redesigning current regular guns or redesigning a smart gun? Summarize the discussion in one page of MS word file including your names and group name.

Below are some useful references in understanding the issues and some of the approaches to developing smart gun technology
https://smarttechfoundation.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_gun
Good introduction to the issues involved in smart-gun development.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/30/us/politics/obama-puts-his-weight-behind-smart-gun-technology.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=1
https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2016/04/29/update-what-were-doing-keep-guns-out-wrong-hands
President Obama and Vice President Biden address the issue
https://www.nraila.org/issues/smart-gunspersonalized-firearms/
NRA “not opposed” to development of smart-gun technology, as long as it is not mandatory.
http://www.safeguntechnology.co/
http://nationswell.com/these-5-smart-gun-technologies-could-be-the-future-of-firearms-in-america/
Good overview of technologies under consideration.
http://sciencenetlinks.com/science-news/science-updates/smart-gun/
The difficulties one is likely to encounter.
http://www.bradycampaign.org/sites/default/files/Gun%20Deaths%20Fact%20Sheet_v8.pdf
Summary data, gun violence in the U.S.

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Student discussion results:

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Group E

Group F