Smart guns aren’t exactly a popular topic in consumer electronics. But TrackingPoint made an appearance at last week’s Consumer Electronics Show with a Wi-Fi networked sniper scope that can lock on ...

In the 2012 film Skyfall, Q presents James Bond with a special handgun for his latest mission — a Walther PPK 9mm short — fitted with a sensor encoded to Bond's palm print so only he can fire it. It's ...

This article is part of “Under the Gun,” a series on why the deadliest product on the market is also one of the least regulated. The company behind America’s first biometric “smart gun” — one that ...

State lawmakers are quietly preparing the next round of fights over “smart guns,” shifting from abstract debates about biometrics to concrete proposals that could shape what you are allowed to buy and ...

For a while this summer, Ginger Chandler ignored the emails from LodeStar. As an executive who had formerly worked on product development for Smith & Wesson and Remington, she was an obvious candidate ...

Maybe you’ve heard about a new class of riflescope, optics that use electronics and wireless technology to help with the main job a scope is ­designed to do: consistently place bullets in a very small ...

Even at age 15, his parents say, Ethan Song had big plans. “He wanted to attend Rice University,” said his mother, Kristin Song. “He wanted to join the army. He wanted to marry and have seven children ...

Ginger Chandler had a hunch. She'd spent years developing products for major gun manufacturers Smith & Wesson and Remington, so gun safety was a big topic at home. But when her stepfather passed away, ...