Assertion Supported
NRA Does Not Publicly Oppose Smart Guns, Says Biofire CEO
“The NRA, as an example, does not oppose the development of smart guns, right? That's their public stance. You can go read on their website.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
VC Weapon Bans Hurt Biofire Fundraising More Than the NRA
“Fundraising for bio fire was probably more challenging than average. And I
I would actually mostly pin that on, on two main factors, neither of which is, you know, special interest groups or the NRA or anything like that. The two main factors is one, we're bui…”
Assertion Supported
Biofire Is the First Company to Sell a Commercial Smart Gun
“Nobody prior to BioFire has ever sold a commercial smart gun.”
Opinion
Defensive Gun Use Is Far Less Common Than Believed, Says Kloepfer
“Do I think that is anywhere near as common as most people think it is? Absolutely not. I think it's a very unlikely event.”
Assertion Contradicted
Biofire Pioneered the First Handgun Electronic Fire Control System
“Biofire, we really went back to the drawing board and pioneered the world's first ever electronic fire control system in a handgun. The trigger mechanically is not connected to the firing pin in any way.”
Assertion Contradicted
Founders Fund Led the First-Ever VC Investment in a Firearms Company
“Our series a, which we announced last year, that was the first ever venture led investment into a firearms company from founders fund.”
Disclosure
Biofire Tells Regulators Smart Guns Must Remain a Choice, Not Mandate
“We've had lots of conversations with regulators, both at state levels and federal levels, to make it very clear that This has to be a choice.”
Prediction Held up
Home Defense Is Becoming the Primary Driver of Firearm Purchases
“People are going to continue to buy firearms for home defense, right? And that is something that I is only increasing rapidly year over year. In fact, it is rapidly becoming the primary reason why people buy firearms.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Biofire CEO: Over 50% of Gun Buyers Are Not Hobbyist Enthusiasts
“Over 50% of gun purchasers, not number of guns sold, but of gun purchasers do not fit that category at all. It's not part of their community or their hobby or their sport, right? It's more in the category of going to Home Depot and buying a power drill.”
Assertion Supported
Biofire Smart Gun Is Fully Air-Gapped With Locally Encrypted Data
“The gun itself is, is totally air gap. There's no wifi, Bluetooth, GPS, IOT, RF communications of any kind, and all of the biometric data, all the usage data, the maintenance information, every single piece of information that the firearm, you know, has to col…”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Biofire's Core Demographic Spends Up to $1,300 Per Firearm Purchase
“Among folks that are in kind of our core customer demographics, the average basket price, right? If they, when they go buy a firearm, the amount of money that they spend on average Is closer to 12 to 1300 dollars because they'll buy a biometric gun safe for a …”
Assertion Partly supported
Biofire CEO: Suicides and Accidents Drive Two-Thirds of US Gun Deaths
“While mass shootings and other kind of violent crime like that, obviously, something that we hear about a lot in the news, they actually make up a very small percentage of gun deaths where two-thirds of gun deaths in the United States are the result of suicide…”
Assertion Supported
Biofire Smart Gun Unlocks via Fingerprint or 3D Facial Recognition
“When the owner or some of the owners chosen picks the firearm up, it automatically wakes up and recognizes their biometrics. There's two ways that you can do that, and you'll need one of them to work, right? You don't need both. You just need one, which is eit…”
Disclosure
Biofire Has Received Thousands of Smart Gun Pre-Orders
“I can't disclose exact numbers, but thousands is all I can say.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Biofire's Smart Gun Arms and Disarms in Five Microseconds
“But it also can be armed and disarmed in about five microseconds, not milliseconds, microseconds. Which means like for all intents and purposes, effectively instantaneous.”
