A new national survey by an esteemed team of public-health researchers takes dead aim at one of the gun lobby’s worst lies among too many to count: That there’s just no market for smarter guns that would save lives.

Sane people up to and including President Obama understand that equipping guns with technology that lets them fire only in the hands of rightful owners would cut firearm fatalities.

Plus, the ability to remotely disable a stolen weapon would surely reduce gun thefts — which happen more than 200,000 times a year, fuel much if not most violent street crime and also create new business for gun manufacturers.

The National Rifle Association has long insisted that Americans have no interest in smart-gun technology. Still more, the NRA’s vigorous opposition has cowed gun sellers from marketing such weaponry in fear that the association would otherwise drive them out of business.

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