Kai Kloepfer founded Biofire, a biometric “smart” gun firm, as a science fair project after the 2012 mass shooting in Aurora, Colorado, pushed the country’s gun violence problem to the forefront. Kloepfer began thinking about how to fix the problem with what he knows: technology.
Twelve years later, the initiative has evolved into Biofire, a guns firm that manufactures weapons that employ fingerprint and facial recognition technology to unlock only the owners and registered users. Kloepfer told Total News that when the pistol leaves the hands of a registered user, it would automatically relock. This is all accomplished via a closed-loop mechanism designed to keep it secure and avoid any hacking.
Biofire’s method is intended to prevent firearms from falling into the wrong hands. kloepfire understands that Biofire cannot stop the gun violence crisis, but he believes it can make a difference, particularly for children. Firearms are currently the greatest cause of death among youngsters in the United States, with 29% being suicide and 3.5% being unintentional, which Biofire might help prevent.
