>>17521
Yep. Bad move by Chiappa. I'm willing to bet that they'll stop chipping them after a while.

>>17522

It's Italian law now, apparently.

>>17526
Makes you wonder why they don't open an American factory, since their primary market is Cowboy Action Shooting anyway.

lol butthurt

> Check out the disdain and disrespect that MKS Distributing has shown for its own customers:

> RFID Removal: For those still concerned you can simply remove the grip and remove the hot glued RFID from the frame in the grip area when (over a year from now) these begin to appear. Others may prefer to wrap the revolver and their head in aluminum foil, curl in a ball and watch reruns of Mel Gibson’s 1997 film, Conspiracy Theory. Well, that’s a plan too!

>>17541

What assholes.

SAGE has been used.

>>17541
I guess they don;t think it's a big deal.

>>17541
Not until someone commissions an electronic sniffer to find Rhinos in the area.

Some one brought up a good point in the comments of that article.

"Want to bet that all law enforcement weapons will be exempt if this ever comes to be?"

>>17545

Anyone who thinks easily removable chips without any GPS or long range detection capabilities is the asshole.

You can take them off.
They can't be tracked within a few meters.

Am I missing something here? Chiappa probably doesn't people that stupid or crazy buying their weapons anyway.

SAGE has been used.

>>17564

The distance at which these chips function is a function of the electronic sniffer, not the chip itself. IIRC someone hand built an RFID scanner that worked at 1km away, which is not an insignificant distance. With a more amplified antenna and better radio equipment with filtering algorithms, I bet the range for tracking could be extended even further.

I could describe all the things that could be done with this, but you'd probably dismiss it as "too complicated to work", or "crazy talk".

All things considered, I don't think Chiappa is really to blame here. I mean, they could have integrated the RFID into the gun, but they just kinda glued it in there instead, so it's easy to remove. You can even destroy RFID chips with nothing more than radio waves (until it becomes illegal, like destroying serial numbers).

>>17567

Why would I dismiss that? I have no working knowledge of such things.

Yet even if you're right you're still suggesting gun owners would just leave them on there.

>>17577

I never suggested any such thing.

I've played around with RFID before, and unless this is using some new, unheard of technology, there's an incredibly easy way to make it fail. Even if it's in the frame so you can't remove it.

Hold a second gun next to it.

RFID works in a "field". Let's say you've got 2 tags, id 00-00-00-00 and id 11-11-11-11. Just as an example.
If you put them next to each other and scan them, you get something like 01-11-10-01-00-11-00-10. Completely invalid.

>>17592

That doesn't work, in my experience. About a year ago I used to have a bunch of RFID cards in the same wallet, and they didn't interfere with each other at all.