Well it's about to start getting difficult to own a weapon in New York after the NYPD has decided to implicate a new technology that allows them to scan people for guns. Hip Hop Wired reports:
The NYPD plans to start using technology that can detect people carrying guns on their person.
The technology, similar to infrared imaging , includes a mechanism that can detect a natural energy, known as terahertz radiation, that emits from a person's body. Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly announced details about the new search method and stated, “This technology has shown a great deal of promise as a way of detecting weapons without a physical search."
The new technology can only be used three to four feet away. Kelly told the New York Daily News that the technology was part of the department's continuing efforts to curb illegal guns off the street as he addressed the Police Foundation at the Regency Hotel on Park Ave. He said cops hope to install the heat-seeking devices on police vehicles in the near future. There are some questions about the device though as many feel unwarranted stops will be made if the device picks up other devices, like iPods, that it may perceive to be a weapon.
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