Watch an Anti-Gun Congresswoman Lie and Self-Personal Throughout a Home Oversight Committee Present Trial

A video clip, shared gleefully by Congresswoman Katie Porter (D-CA), tries to indicate the general public that gun producers are irresponsible obstructionists for not incorporating extra security know-how into their merchandise. However, like nearly all of her colleagues in Congress, she clearly doesn’t know sufficient in regards to the matter to know that every one she did was handle to show herself fallacious.

Weapons should not have fewer security options than cell telephones. Immediately, I requested firearm producers why they will not put fingerprint scanners on all their weapons, which may stop as much as 40% of unintentional deaths. pic.twitter.com/q1p0Mrg5oh

— Rep. Katie Porter (@RepKatiePorter) July 27, 2022

(You can also find the video here if she figures this out and deletes it, or view the whole hearing here.)

California Rep. Katie Porter is within the means of grills Christopher Killoy, the president and CEO of Sturm Ruger. She tries to make the killer level that smartphones include fingerprint locking know-how. And cell telephones are supposedly not as harmful as weapons.

She causes, due to this fact, that firearms ought to include fingerprint locks additionally to forestall their unauthorized use. Rep. Porter then tries to get Marty Daniel, the top of Daniel Protection to decide to including fingerprint scanners to his firm’s weapons.

Like so lots of her fellow Democrats, nonetheless, she doesn’t appear to b e conscious that this was an epic self-own.

First off, she struggled briefly to unlock her cellphone throughout her little demonstration. On the primary attempt, the cellphone didn’t unlock. It solely unlocked on the second attempt.

That clearly demonstrates what Mr. Killoy was attempting to elucidate, that fingerprint scanning know-how is simply too unreliable for use on one thing as vital as a weapon you’d use to defend your life. And, that’s earlier than contemplating what dehydration, sweating, and accidents can do to your finger’s skill to supply a clear scannable picture.

The Honorable Member from the Golden State can be oblivious to the potential for malfunctions within the even the gun is dropped, will get moist, or experiences different excessive circumstances.

Then Rep. Porter unleashed this whopper . . .

These fingerprint scanners are supplied in some firearms. Some producers promote this and so they work. Your organization and Mr. Daniel’s firm chooses (sic) to not. 

That, in fact, is a blatant lie.

Sorry, Congresswoman, however there aren’t any producers promoting firearms with fingerprint scanners now. Not wherever.

There was plenty of hype, loads of guarantees and a few balky prototypes, however the lack of dependable efficiency in testing (which Rep. Porter partially demonstrated) and the shortage of curiosity amongst patrons (as Mr. Daniel mentions) have saved “good weapons” from being marketed wherever on this planet as of this writing. Mendacity about it doesn’t make it so.

The CEO of a significant gun producer mentioned he’s unwilling so as to add security options to his firm’s weapons as a result of “clients are usually not .” That places us all in danger. That’s like saying Individuals ought to get to purchase defective home equipment even when they’ll burn down the home subsequent door. pic.twitter.com/O4e74C3XKo

— Rep. Katie Porter (@RepKatiePorter) July 27, 2022

Lastly, we have to remember the fact that the federal government can’t and doesn’t mandate that individuals use biometric locks or another form of safety on their cell telephones. In reality, three-letter agencies would very much prefer that our telephones don’t have any safety in any respect to allow them to rifle by our knowledge at any time when they select.

Feds aren’t about to require that individuals lock their telephones. So, it’s past foolish to behave prefer it’s an awesome concept for presidency to mandate fingerprint scanning on any machine, not to mention one on which thousands and thousands of individuals depend on to guard their lives.

If Rep. Porter had identified her ass from her elbow — about both smartphones or weapons — she’d know that she solely managed to defeat her personal supposed argument the opposite day. Sadly,  she’s too ignorant to see it.