Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Biofire's gun is designed to allow an authorized person to fire the weapon instantly upon gripping it, and to disable the trigger ...

Kai Kloepfer started biometric “smart” gun startup Biofire as a science fair project after the Aurora, Colorado, mass shooting in 2012 brought the U.S.’s gun violence problem close to home. Kloepfer ...

A 'safe' handgun is a relative term, but Colorado-based Biofire Technologies is taking a high-tech crack at the idea with its Biofire Smart Gun, which uses an electronic identification and firing ...

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Gun owners can now order a smart gun that uses fingerprinting and facial recognition tech to unlock a 9mm firearm. Reading time 4 minutes After decades of hype, biometrically enabled “smart” guns are ...

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 ...