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New Zealand Herald: China develops chip to pinpoint firearms.
China has developed a satellite positioning chip to pinpoint the location of firearms and trigger an alert when guns are taken out of designated areas, according to a Chinese hi-tech firm.3 meters..."pinpoint" location? Anyone?
Beijing Bailineng Technology, the developer of the technology, said in Beijing that the chips used China's BeiDou Navigation Satellite System to send real-time location data back to a control centre.
Authorised handlers of the weapons would also be issued with BeiDou watches to send alerts if they are separated from their firearm, with the aim of stopping the weapons falling into the hands of criminals.
"At the moment the accuracy of positioning is about 3 metres," (9' 10" - DD), Ge Chunsheng, a company spokesman, said
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"The chips are built in inside, can't be seen from the outside and very difficult to remove ... without damaging the gun."
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But the system was already in use in various People's Liberation Army units in Beijing and Nanjing, he said.
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China has strict gun control regulations banning civilians from owning firearms. Only the military, police and some specific personnel such as armed transport crews can legally possess firearms.
Previous gun-tracking systems relied on the US-owned and operated Global Positioning System (GPS).
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