My ideas for sensible gun control

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20. Hmmm, some modern technology could be useful.

This could be a good use for implanted RFID/NFC devices.

You get an RFID tag in a simple procedure at the doctor's office, much like getting your dog or cat chipped. The gun's rigged with an electronic interlock with an RFID/NFC device, that you pair to your implanted RFID chip. The interlock only unlocks when it detects that the owner's RFID tag is present. And since the tag's implanted, it's awfully hard to lose it or to steal it.

Another idea: Mandatory gun cameras. As anyone with a laptop or a smartphone knows, digital camera technology is seriously miniaturizable. At minimum, we're talking about a camera chip (like the ones in smartphones or webcams, about the size of a pinhead), a lithium coin battery or similar power source, and some sort of interface, be it a microSD card (about the size of a fingernail), a micro-USB interface to download images to a PC, or a wi-fi chip. In any case, you can have a gun camera that's at most, the size of your pinky, and probably can be made much smaller. Require all firearms to have a built-in gun camera, that automatically snaps a picture and gives that picture a timestamp, and maybe even GPS coordinates, every time the gun fires. That should aid investigations immeasurably.