Posts Tagged: "firearms"

Silicon Valley, small business leads the way on gun safety technology

Development is underway on a generation of guns that wouldn’t eliminate every homicide but could prevent even one massacre event, which no one could argue is a bad thing. As with just about every other sector of American technological development, there’s been quite a bit of activity coming from Silicon Valley. Tech investors from that region have joined together to form the Smart Tech Challenges Foundation, an organization dedicated to funding gun safety innovations. The San Francisco-based foundation awards funding levels ranging from $10,000 to $100,000 to projects in pursuit of safer firearms. The organization’s Smart Tech Fire Challenge is designed to distribute $1 million in funding to 15 innovative firearms safety projects.