Finally A Safe Gun

Ernst Mauch designed some of the world's most lethal weapons, including the one that reportedly killed Osama bin Laden. A state regulator once called him a "rock star" in the industry.

Mauch's solution, the iPl, can be personalized so it only fires if the gun's rightful owner is wearing a special watch connected wirelessly to the weapon. Law Officers, some branches of the military, security rent a cop must be overjoyed at this new invention.

NRA backed Second Amendment advocates, fearing the technology will be mandated, launched angry protests this year against stores in Maryland and California that tried to sell it. The industry that once revered him now looks at him with suspicion.

Anyone can make a gun or a pistol. But if the potential is here to make it safer, we have to do it. We absolutely must.

His contacts at the Army Research Laboratory back him up. "He has come up with a design thafs reliable, it provides safety, and it provides security," said Sam Wansack, a lab engineer at Aberdeen Proving Ground. "I can't think of a way of defeating it without destroying the gun."