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 ...

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 ...

TrackingPoint rifles include what are known as a ballistic computers. During the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show, firearms-manufacturer TrackingPoint announced an AR-15 version of its ...

Many former TrackingPoint employees say you can spell death with three letters: BRS. TrackingPoint had a stunning product. Launched in 2011, the startup was a gun manufacturer building rifles designed ...

Key Point: Computer guidance might make marksmanship irrelevant. During the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show, firearms-manufacturer TrackingPoint announced an AR-15 version of its computer-controlled ...

When we first covered TrackingPoint's computer-assisted weapons at CES, it was the rifles' object-tagging that got everyone's attention. Its Precision-Guided Firearm (PGF) system allows a shooter to ...

The future of firearms is here. It looks a lot like a video game. TrackingPoint, a startup tech company in Austin, Texas, has just started selling the most advanced long-distance rifle available on ...

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 ...

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 ...

Even if you’re not into guns you’ll likely remember the controversial sniper rifles TrackingPoint introduced a few years ago, as they were covered widely by cable news outlets and everyone else.