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Long Shot: Inside the Scope of Smart Weapons
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Long Shot: Inside the Scope of Smart Weapons

24 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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TrackingPoint Solutions, a start-up based in West Texas, builds what it calls the first precision-guided firearm: a long-range rifle with a laser-locking scope modeled on jet-fighter targeting systems. Motherboard visits the company's test range for a hands-on crash course, and novice shooters land single-shot hits at 1,000 yards, with the company promising 3,000 yards is next. CEO Jason Schauble frames the closed-loop system as a leap forward for the gun industry and argues it makes for more ethical kills by reducing wounding shots. Critics interviewed in the film call it something else entirely: the gamification of killing, a scope that lets anyone pull off a shot that once took years of skill to master. The film lays out both the mechanics of the technology, including TrackingPoint's plans to adapt the system for other weapons, and the argument breaking out around it, arriving as mass shootings keep the ethics of firearm accessibility in the news. It ends without resolving whether easier killing is progress or a problem.