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I was reading an article on The Escapist about this new gun (http://tracking-point.com/innovations#innov-hardware) which supposedly uses computer assistance to enable a novice shooter to snipe targets at long range, the article was about how the gun was being marketed at a gaming expo which is itself quite disturbing but what I want to discuss here is the implications of such technology.
Should we be concerned that user friendly weaponry is being developed?
There's a comforting separation between military and civilian shooters in that the former are trained to do what the latter cannot, along with the appropriate discipline, but if civilians can buy, for example, a solenoid assisted carbon fibre arm brace to cancel out recoil and a laser sight for their pistol/rifle/whatever the combination of which enables (for the sake of argument) a barely trained shooter to shoot targets with videogame like pinpoint accuracy, isn't that something we should be concerned about?
Should we be concerned that user friendly weaponry is being developed?
There's a comforting separation between military and civilian shooters in that the former are trained to do what the latter cannot, along with the appropriate discipline, but if civilians can buy, for example, a solenoid assisted carbon fibre arm brace to cancel out recoil and a laser sight for their pistol/rifle/whatever the combination of which enables (for the sake of argument) a barely trained shooter to shoot targets with videogame like pinpoint accuracy, isn't that something we should be concerned about?