In spring of 2013, Texas-based start up TrackingPoint Solutions released the first ever precision-guided firearm, which is essentially a long-range, laser-guided robo rifle. Call it the gun of tomorrow: The technology is so advanced we’ve heard it can have beginners killing at extreme distances with single-shot accuracy in mere minutes.The PGF’s closed-loop system is based off jetfighter lock and launch technology, something TrackingPoint CEO Jason Schauble says not only marks the next great paradigm shift in the evolution of firearms—it helps users make ethical kill shots too. But critics of the PGF platform, no doubt part and parcel of a rising tide of intelligent killer apps, say the gun, or rather its proprietary scope, marks the dawn of “skill-free killing”.
In LONG SHOT Motherboard visits West Texas, the frontline of smart weapons. We get a backcountry crash course through the PGF, hear about TrackingPoint’s plans to apply its system to a veritable suite of advanced weaponry, all built on custom software that promises to have novice shots like us to killing at 1,000 yards—and in the near future, potentially 3,000 yards—with single-shot accuracy, and try to untangle an increasingly knotty firearms debate in light of the so-called gamification of killing and, sadly, yet another mass shooting.
Has killing become too easy?
This could revolutionize hunting, just strap one of these onto a quad with some sort of gripper on the bottom to hold onto tree branches. Quad-copter battle to the death, sniper edition lol.
Well, 10 years later people do use those with thermal vision to locate the game 😀 Like 2 out of 3 gun stores like https://gritrsports.com/ I’ve been to had copters in sale
Canadians should have 2nd amendment rights and freedoms too-why not make both countries one? This is the opinion of a tree hugging, liberal, pinko, commie atheist.
The US government has just failed to pass its yearly Federal budget. 800,000 nonessential government workers were sent home today, and cannot be paid.
Republicans refuse to endorse universal healthcare.
Canada has enough problems!
That is so great that in a few years anyone could be an expert sniper without any training, I wonder how long it will take for the nutjobs to start sniping random people from a mile away in the US, or when the US invades some other country, I wonder how many US soldiers will die by these guns. HOORAH americans and their guns, the land of the dumb and the home of the fat asses with a gun in every home (AND criminals hands).