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$27,500 smartgun can hit a target over 1,000 yards away

With the technology, the shooter “tags” a target using a red button on the trigger guard. After the tag is set, the shooter aims the gun and holds down the trigger. Once the tag and the crosshairs of the scope line up, the gun fires.

“There are a number of people who say the gun shoots itself,” Schauble said. “It doesn’t. The shooter is always in the loop.”

The network tracking scope’s technology takes environmental factors, such as temperature, wind speeds, and gravity, into account to ensure a clean shot.

A little more complicated than that, the gun itself must continue to perform to the programmed parameters or the bullet won’t end up where it’s aimed at. In other words, cleaning, zeroing using match-grade ammunition still required. Also, as the video shows, the calculation of wind speed over the range is still an external (human) function.

Some in the security sector, however, have reservations about the long-range rifle.

“There are a handful of snipers who can hit a target at 1,000 yards. But now, anybody can do it,” Rommel Dionisio, a gun industry analyst for Wedbush Securities told CNN Money. “You can put some tremendous capability in the hands of just about anybody, even an untrained shooter.”

This unit includes a WiFi feed, so add a device to activate the trigger remotely and sit in front of a computer anywhere in the world and wait for your target to wander in front of the sights. There is no visible laser “Dot” to warn the target (or the targets security) and once set in place it could be concealed within a open-ended box to small to hold a man.  Bolt operated, not semi-auto, so no second (unattended) shot. Hell of a assassination device.  Mount it inside one of Google’s Autonomous Cars and you have the perfect robot assassin, made from “off-the-shelf” parts.

If the IBM computers that beat the experts had names; “Big Blue” for chess and “Watson” for Jeopardy. What would you call this system?  Hey! A Smartgun teamed up with a SmartCar, remake the movie “The Terminator” as a robotic buddy movie!