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Gun

  • US 5,502,915 A
  • Filed: 04/29/1994
  • Issued: 04/02/1996
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/29/1994
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A gun programmable to provide for its firing only by an authorized person, including,a handle,a trigger,a body supporting the handle and the trigger,an actuatable pin disposed on the body and movable between first and second stable positions and operable in the first stable position to provide for the depression of the trigger to obtain the firing of a bullet from the body and operable in the second stable position to restrain the trigger from becoming depressed,memory means for storing prints identifying a particular portion of the hand of the authorized person,first means disposed on the handle for receiving the particular portion of the hand of the user and for producing a print of such particular portion,second means supported by the gun for comparing the prints from the memory means and the first means and for producing signals in accordance with the results of such comparison, andthird means for actuating the pin to an individual one of the first and second stable positions in accordance with the signals produced by the second means, the third means being operable to maintain the actuatable pin in each of the first and second stable positions until the actuation of the actuatable pin by the third means to the other one of the first and second stable positions.

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