You're going to need a lot of perseverance to get a project like this done, so if nothing else this project will teach you a lot of patience with people who don't believe in your idea.
You can get a prototype really easy: get an Arduino platform and some sensors and then work on your back-end. With about $100 in parts you can prove out a lot of your overall idea. Visit https://www.adafruit.com/ - you don't need to have any hardware experience to get something functional in just a few hours or days; this stuff is easy to learn.
If you have the ability to objectively analyze results, you'll quickly realize your project is a) recreating wheels that already exist, b) utterly pointless.
Anyone intent on doing evil will be able to destroy or suppress any sensor added or built-into a gun. Mass-murders are not done on a whim - they plan and have plenty of time to figure out ways around obstacles.
Yes, some obstacles will undoubtedly deter some people, but with everything there is a cost / benefit analysis that must be done. You will find in this debate that people, on both sides of the issue, will use every statistically correlation as a causation to support their point. Factual, proven data is very hard to come by without a bias: I'm pretty sure I could statistically prove that mass murders are directly related to the availability of avocados.
Weapon-smithing and ammunition production is easy with modern tools and is just getting easier. Even casings for ammunition is easy with simple machine tools. As others have mentioned, with 3D printing technology advancing printing guns from scratch is effectively here today and will only get better.
You can get a prototype really easy: get an Arduino platform and some sensors and then work on your back-end. With about $100 in parts you can prove out a lot of your overall idea. Visit https://www.adafruit.com/ - you don't need to have any hardware experience to get something functional in just a few hours or days; this stuff is easy to learn.
If you have the ability to objectively analyze results, you'll quickly realize your project is a) recreating wheels that already exist, b) utterly pointless.
Anyone intent on doing evil will be able to destroy or suppress any sensor added or built-into a gun. Mass-murders are not done on a whim - they plan and have plenty of time to figure out ways around obstacles.
Yes, some obstacles will undoubtedly deter some people, but with everything there is a cost / benefit analysis that must be done. You will find in this debate that people, on both sides of the issue, will use every statistically correlation as a causation to support their point. Factual, proven data is very hard to come by without a bias: I'm pretty sure I could statistically prove that mass murders are directly related to the availability of avocados.
Weapon-smithing and ammunition production is easy with modern tools and is just getting easier. Even casings for ammunition is easy with simple machine tools. As others have mentioned, with 3D printing technology advancing printing guns from scratch is effectively here today and will only get better.