Crime is Slate’s crime blog. Like us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter @slatecrime. So you’ve got the urge to send some rounds downrange, but you can’t shoot and don’t want to take the time to ...

Smart guns aren’t exactly a popular topic in consumer electronics. But TrackingPoint made an appearance at last week’s Consumer Electronics Show with a Wi-Fi networked sniper scope that can lock on ...

A new rifle goes on sale on Wednesday, and it's not like any other. It uses lasers and computers to make shooters very accurate. A startup gun company in Texas developed the rifle, which is so ...

HOUSTON – A new high-tech gun is advertised as so extremely accurate, a novice shooter could hit a target half a mile away. That's why some hunters can't wait to buy one and the reason one Houston ...

Across the top of TrackingPoint’s website is the statement: “Due to financial difficulty TrackingPoint will no longer be accepting orders.” This is the company that made news in 2013 when it used ...

LAS VEGAS, NEV.—In what’s becoming a yearly tradition for Ars, we met up with Austin-based TrackingPoint at CES to see what was new in the world of “Precision Guided Firearms”—the term the company ...

At CES 2013, thanks to a company called TrackingPoint, hunting rifles can now be considered a piece of consumer electronics. Starting at $17,000, TrackingPoint is launching a range of Precision Guided ...

At Black Hat next week, researchers Runa Sandvik and Michael Auger are expected to demonstrate how they were able to manipulate a Linux-powered, networked high-end rifle. TrackingPoint rifles are ...

The US Army is in the process of testing new “smart rifle” scopes that seek to improve shooter accuracy, through technology that lets the user plant a virtual tag on their target to allow for better ...

Here at ShowStoppers during CES 2013, TrackingPoint is showing off a next-generation rifle/scope combo that includes some amazing technology that we've never seen before in a firearm. The company had ...

Since first running into TrackingPoint at CES 2013, we’ve kept tabs on the Austin-based company and its Linux-powered rifles, which it collectively calls “Precision Guided Firearms,” or PGFs. We got ...

LAS VEGAS — Using Wi-Fi, two security researchers found a way to subvert a computer-aided sniper rifle. Computer security researchers Runa Sandvik and her husband Michael Auger hacked a TrackingPoint ...