I did read the article, thank you very much. If you look elsewhere in this thread you'll see that I remarked that after a few more iterations of the technology, they'll likely be able to sort out the delay from being necessary. Regardless, I think you're overlooking that the animal doesn't need to be 1,000 away for the technology to be effective. It also doesn't seem to indicate whether or not weapon need engage the targeting computer for each trigger pull either, but I think that, at least in future iterations if not right now, I would likely be able to manually fire via the trigger where it wasn't necessary.

As for citations:

- http://www.txdps.state.tx.us/director_staff/media_and_commun...

- http://www.elpasotimes.com/news/ci_11770847

- http://www.txdps.state.tx.us/director_staff/media_and_commun... (linked to from the first reference I believe)

- http://www.protectyourtexasborder.com/portals/border/Narco-T...

Also worth noting that there is an unknowable amount of cartel-related crime that goes unreported for fear of getting on a hit list.