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* ''VideoGame/{{Titanfall}}'': Features the Smart Pistol [=MK5=] which can automatically track five targets with bullets that {{Anime/Robotech}}. It is difficult to lock onto pilots due to their movement speed, but ''very'' good for taking out Spectres and Grunts.

* Various weapon gadgets such as biometric locks, tracking devices, ammo switching mechanisms and targeting sensors (which go from assisted targeting up to "build-your-own-SmartGun") are available for purchase on the ''TabletopGame/D20Modern'' expansion book ''D20 Future'', restricted (well, without GM fiat) by Progress Level and how much it increases the base weapon's price.

* A one-shot criminal that appears in DarkHorseComics ''ComicBook/DirtyPair'' arc "Run From The Future" has a Smart Gun that thinks for itself a la ''Buck Godot''... and the gun is a TriggerHappy psychopath that (by the time of the comic) has managed to smooth-talk the criminal into killing about 200-plus people in QuickDraw rampages.
* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'''s Lawgiver pistol is a classic example of this trope. It can fire six types of bullet, has a stung function and will explode if anyone but its authorised user attempts to use it.

* In ''Film/TheFifthElement'', the guns that Zorg tries to trade to Mangalores for the Element Stones come with [[SwissArmyGun a ton of smart features]], and most likely a system to prevent a RummageFail.

* In ''Videogame/EscapeFromButcherBay'', the prison guards use biometrically locked weapons. When Riddick is escaping, he finds the mainframe and gives himself weapon privileges. Additionally, most of the weapons have an ammo indicator and a LaserSight or crosshair, befitting a game with [[DiegeticInterface almost no heads up display]].

* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4'' uses this as the explanation for why Snake cannot simply scoop up enemy weapons and immediately use them as part of his own arsenal. Instead, he needs to funnel them back to the arms dealer, Drebin, who can get around the lock out, and resupply Snake for a fee.

* ''VideoGame/{{Titanfall}}'': Features the Smart Pistol [=MK5=] which can automatically track five targets with bullets that {{Anime/Robotech}}.

# [[SelfGuardingPhlebotinum Security]]: A regular gun will work for anyone as long as they've disengaged the safety. A SmartGun would require some kind of key or biometric scan to work. Anyone not authorized would find the gun useless, or in extreme cases, [[UnusableEnemyEquipment the gun would self-destruct]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Titanfall}}'': Features the Smart Pistol [=MK5=] which can automatically track five targets with bullets that {{robotech}}.

* The National Rifle Association and many other gun legalization activists are vehemently opposed to the concept of "smart guns" for a number of reasons.

* The National Rifle Association and many other gun legalization activists are vehemently opposed to the concept of "smart guns" for a number of reasons.

A Smart Gun is an advanced weapon, usually found in ScienceFiction, that combines the action of a firearm (usually pistols and rifles) with the utility of a computer. While tropes relating to guns themselves is covered under GunsAndGunplayTropes, the “Smart” aspect of the trope is unique, giving whoever wields the gun various abilities not normally achievable with a normal gun (or without extensive training).

A Smart Gun is a human portable weapon system designed to combine the action of a firearm, mostly pistols and rifles, with the utility of a computer.

While the firearm itself is usually covered in GunsAndGunplayTropes the “Smart” part of the system comes about by allowing the firearm to assist the user autonomously in some small way or a RequiredSecondaryPower thereof.

Including but not limited to:

# [[SelfGuardingPhlebotinum Security]]: A regular rifle will work with anyone who disengaged the safety where existent, a smart rifle would require a key or biometric of some sort and perhaps a system to prevent abuse, or in the extreme [[UnusableEnemyEquipment its own weapon system or self-destruct to answer abuse]].
# [[LoyalPhlebotinum Communications]]: Where a pistol would make a report by sound, pressure and smell, a smart pistol would inform the user of needed maintenance, repair and perhaps repercussions of action such as notifying the user that he is aiming at a police badge or a soldier having two way confirmation of objectives, in the extreme [[TalkingWeapon perhaps verbally or with a written report]].
# [[SituationalSword Targeting]]: An everyday run-of-the-mill {{Death|Ray}} RayGun fires at whatever whoever is holding it points at and depending on physics will or will not do what the machine was designed to do, give or take GunAccessories like scopes and training, whereas Smart {{Death|Ray}} RayGun would find a way to help the user in some way such as accounting for atmospheric scattering of weaponized photons or refusing to fire on friends and/or officers, in the extreme [[WeaponWieldsYou perhaps supplanting the weapons own abilities for the users training]].

See also: SentryGun if you usually set the weapon down first, AttackDrone for when your smart weapon gets up to go without you, ImpossiblyCoolWeapon for stylish weapons, and for weapons which are smart in the literal sense see EmpathicWeapon and EquippableAlly (which may overlap this trope).

A Smart Gun™ is a human portable weapon system designed to combine the action of a firearm, mostly pistols and rifles, with the utility of a computer.

* In Creator/SergeyLukyanenko's ''Literature/LineOfDelirium'', some of the Argument-series handheld weapons have intellectual circuits that aid in targeting and can be also programmed to avoid hitting friendlies or civilians. The named variants are the Argument 17 [[Plasma Cannon plasma pistol]] and the Argument 36 polycharger (a SwissArmyWeapon that can switch between plasma, FrickinLaserBeam, and StunGun settings).

* Any Weapon with "Intellectual Circuitry" from ''Literature/LineOfDelirium'' such as the Argument 17 or the [[SwissArmyGun polycharger]] Argument 36.

While the firearm itself is usually covered in GunsAndGunplayTropes the “Smart” part of the system comes about by allowing the firearm to assist the user autonomously in some small way or a RequiredSecondaryPower thereof .

* In ''Comic/RogueTrooper'': The titular SuperSoldier uploads the biochip of one of his [[BodyBackupDrive dead comrades]] into his rifle allowing his friend to fight on as his weapon.

* Quite a few guns in ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'' can be equipped with a [=AI=] core so that they can talk such as the previous loader 1340, The Morningstar sniper rifle, The Bane, and The Boganella.

* Ubiquitous in the ''Franchise/GhostInTheShell'' franchise. The episode of ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'' "Time of the Machines -- MACHINES DESIRANTES" begins with [[ColdSniper Saito]] testing out a new rifle with some degree of aiming assistance, but rejecting it because [[StopHelpingMe it makes it harder for him to aim]] (prompting the Tachikoma to start debating the way technology, like them, is made to suit humans).

# [[SituationalSword Targeting]]: An everyday run-of-the-mill {{Death|Ray}} RayGun fires at whatever whoever is holding it points at and depending on physics will or will not do what the machine was designed to do give or take GunAccessories like scopes and training, whereas Smart {{Death|Ray}} RayGun would find a way to help the user in some way such as accounting for atmospheric scattering of weaponized photons or refusing to fire on friends and/or officers, in the extreme [[WeaponWieldsYou perhaps supplanting the weapons own abilities for the users training]].

# [[LoyalPhlebotinum Communications]]: Where a pistol would make a report by sound, pressure and smell, a smart pistol would inform the user of needed maintenance, repair and perhaps repercussions of action such as notifying the user that he is aiming at a police badge or a soldier having two way conformation of objectives, in the extreme [[TalkingWeapon perhaps verbally or with a written report]].

See also: SentryGun if you usually set the weapon down first, AttackDrone for when your smart weapon gets up to go without you, ImpossiblyCoolWeapon for stylish weapons and for weapons which are smart in the literal sense see EmpathicWeapon and EquippableAlly (which may overlap this trope).