Ed MarkeyVerified account

And now, a little rant relating to the San Francisco pier shooting, which has touched off a lot of talk about immigration policy... (1/x)

The gun, as has been widely reported, belonged to a federal agent and had been stolen from a vehicle. Stolen handguns are commonplace (2/x)

As I've written before, stolen guns make up roughly half of black market handguns. (3/x)

This entire portion of the illegal handgun market could have been effectively eliminated by now, with 'smart gun' tech (4/x)

...that ensures that only the owner, or those authorized by the owner, can fire the weapon. The technology exists, for new handguns (5/x)

and to retrofit old handguns. And, the technology would be even better if a market existed for it - but the market doesn't exist (6/x)