In Iraq, Shooting Ourselves in the Foot (Or Worse) The Pentagon can't find 190,000 rifles it distributed to Iraqui security forces.

....the inability of the United States to track weapons with tools such as serial numbers makes it nearly impossible for the U.S. military to know whether it is battling an enemy equipped by American taxpayers."They really have no idea where they are," said Rachel Stohl, a senior analyst at the Center for Defense Information who has studied small-arms trade and received Pentagon briefings on the issue. "It likely means that the United States is unintentionally providing weapons to bad actors."

Here is a genius idea, the kind of thing that could make me a multi-millionaire if I were inclined to become an international arms manufacturer: Why doesn't the Pentagon invent a rifle that can be remote-controlled by computer chip, so that it the rifle fell into the wrong hands, it could be tracked and/or disabled?

And any attempt to destroy the chip would result in the permanent inoperability of the weapon?

If we can make EZ Passes, GPS systems, and the like, why couldn't we make this?  ¶ 7:06 AM