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<div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/433/gun.mp3' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Student Develops Gun Unlocked by Fingerprint' data-article-id='780'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='7528'>A gunman killed two members of a television news crew in the United States earlier this week. </span> <span data-start-time='7528' data-end-time='14694'>Their TV station broadcast the shooting “live,” in real time. </span> <span data-start-time='14694' data-end-time='19093'>The shooting shocked many Americans and people around the world. </span> </p><p><span data-start-time='19093' data-end-time='25646'>The United States has the highest rate of civilian firearm ownership in the world. </span> <span data-start-time='25646' data-end-time='33946'>A recent study rated the U.S. among the top countries in public mass shooters per person. </span> <span data-start-time='33946' data-end-time='40907'>A mass shooting is an attack in which four or more people were killed or injured.</span> <span data-start-time='40907' data-end-time='47120'>One U.S. teenager wants to help prevent such attacks. </span> <span data-start-time='47120' data-end-time='50884'>Kai Kloepfer lives in Boulder, Colorado.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='50884' data-end-time='59025'>It was three years ago, when a gunman opened fire in a crowded theater in nearby Aurora, Colorado.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='59025' data-end-time='64172'>The gunman killed 12 people and injured 70 others.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='64172' data-end-time='68163'>Kai Kloepfer has a talent for technology.</span> <span data-start-time='68163' data-end-time='73424'>He has been teaching himself engineering skills since he was a child. </span> <span data-start-time='73424' data-end-time='80952'>After the attack in Aurora, he decided to use his skills to help prevent mass shootings.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='80952' data-end-time='86508'>I kind of set out to improve the safety of firearms,” he said.</span> <span data-start-time='86508' data-end-time='92177'>The young man’s goal was to make a gun that would not work in the hands of a killer.</span> <span data-start-time='92177' data-end-time='98934'>But he knew it would be impossible for him to stop dangerous people from buying guns.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='98934' data-end-time='102222'>So he changed direction.</span> <span data-start-time='102222' data-end-time='108073'>He decided to create a gun designed to preventing accidental shootings.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='108073' data-end-time='116327'>“Every 30 minutes in the United States, a child dies or is injured by a firearm, Kloepfer said.</span> <span data-start-time='116327' data-end-time='129637'>Add up a child every 30 minutes over even, say a week, and you have an astronomically larger number of people than has ever been injured in any type of mass shooting in the United States.”</span> <span data-start-time='129637' data-end-time='140590'>A more recent study found that guns are to blame for killing or injuring at least 10,000 children across the U.S. every year.</span> <span data-start-time='140590' data-end-time='146553'>That information comes from the Children’s Defense Fund, a private group.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='146553' data-end-time='155397'>The gun Kai Kloepfer designed only works when unlocked by the fingerprint of the owner, and not for anyone else.</span> <span data-start-time='155397' data-end-time='159660'>The gun only recognizes the touch of its owner.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='159660' data-end-time='169070'>It took the teenager seven months and over 1,500 hours to create a plastic model of his smart gun."</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='169070' data-end-time='174830'>He entered his fingerprint handgun in a local science fair and won. </span> <span data-start-time='174830' data-end-time='183810'>In fact, he kept winning, all the way to the 2013 INTEL International Science and Engineering Fair. </span> <span data-start-time='183810' data-end-time='189864'>At the age of 16, he won the world’s top youth science competition.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='189864' data-end-time='198027'>More than 7.4 million people compete at science and engineering fairs around the world, Kai said. </span> <span data-start-time='198027' data-end-time='204580'>“But only 1,500 people each year get to attend the Intel Science Fair. </span> <span data-start-time='204580' data-end-time='215147'>I was selected by the judges to attend the Intel Science Fair and actually ended up winning first place grand award in engineering for that year.”</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='215147' data-end-time='219637'>His INTEL award included a monetary prize. </span> <span data-start-time='219637' data-end-time='224943'>He asked the SmartTech Challenges Foundation for a grant. </span> <span data-start-time='224943' data-end-time='229615'>He received $50,000 from the organization. </span> <span data-start-time='229615' data-end-time='234943'>Its goal is to support innovation in gun safety.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='234943' data-end-time='238617'>Kai Kloepfer is now 18 years old. </span> <span data-start-time='238617' data-end-time='243537'>He has been using the grant money to improve the technology. </span> <span data-start-time='243537' data-end-time='250000'>He says the weapon he designed “doesn’t change the function of a firearm at all. </span> <span data-start-time='250000' data-end-time='252358'>It just makes it safer.”</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='252358' data-end-time='258322'>He is now working to add the fingerprint lock technology to a real gun. </span> <span data-start-time='258322' data-end-time='266077'>He says he expects to one day see his “smart gun” for sale next to other firearms.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='266077' data-end-time='272041'>The young man plans to spend the next year improving his fingerprint handgun. </span> <span data-start-time='272041' data-end-time='280317'>Then he will start college at one of the world’s top universities - the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='280317' data-end-time='282063'>I’m Jonathan Evans.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' 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data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/433/an_object_that_is_given_as_a_prize.m4a'><span>an object that is given as a prize</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/433/not_possible.m4a'><span>not possible</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/433/made_up_of_things_that_are_different.m4a'><span>made up of things that are different</span></div></div></div><div class='multiple_choice_question question-container' data-question-id=3909 data-hint-location='252358' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/433/what_did_kloedpfer_add_to_a_gun_to_make_it_safer.m4a'>What did Kloedpfer add to a gun to make it safer?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='fingerprint lock'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/433/undo_button.m4a'><span>undo button</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/433/fingerprint_lock.m4a'><span>fingerprint lock</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/433/alarm.m4a'><span>alarm</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/433/cover.m4a'><span>cover</span></div></div></div><div class='sentence_completion_question question-container' data-question-id=3910 data-hint-location='80952' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/433/kloepfers_goal_was_to_improve_the_safety_of__blank_.m4a'>Kloepfer's goal was to improve the safety of <span class='blank'>firearms</span>.</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='firearms'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/433/firearms.m4a'><span>firearms</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/433/computers.m4a'><span>computers</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/433/cars.m4a'><span>cars</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/433/toys.m4a'><span>toys</span></div></div></div><div class='question-buttons'><button class='skip-button'></button><button class='hint-button'></button><button class='speak-button'></button></div></div></div>
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