January 28, 2004
The Cell-Phone Gun.
A REAL killer app...
[Warning: Quicktime. Via Gizmodo]
This scares the shit out of me.
How long until this is banned?
Its an American's constitutional right to conceal a gun in their mobile phone...
(MPG, not QT.) With a sub one inch barrel and no sights, firing .22 rounds? Useless.
Ok, so it would be DIFFICULT to maim me-- in a bad real-life situation that is one thought NOT going through my panicked brain...
(and you're right, not QT..)
Considerably less dangerous than an icepick or a sharpened screwdriver. Or a real cellphone, wielded behind the wheel. I wouldn't lose too much sleep over it.
Man, everyone seems to be cool as a cucumber about this.
I fly a lot, and all the cumulative effects of increased security and increasingly crafty gun-makers do is to make me jump about ten feet high whenever I hear a car backfire.
I know the odds are astronomical, I know all the blahblahblah...
But the little evil-genius that makes and sells a cell-gun is sooner or later going to cross someone's path, somewhere...
I guess we'll return to this thread and re-evaluate it when it happens.
Although the prospect of a clumsy cel-phone user shooting him/herself in the head is rather appealing to me.
Is there a reason someone would want to own one of these, that isn't directly related to breaking the law? The gun lobby can hardly say that something like that is a deterrant - no-one's gonna scare someone off with a phone.
Diz, it's just that "secret" guns like that are nothing new. The OSI and later the KGB made a few such models (fountain pens, belt buckles, cigarette lighters, lipsticks -- all very period artifacts) during WWII and the Cold War, where they showed themselves useless.
My dismissal was a little flip. It's hard to injure yourself or a companion accidentally with an icepick: it requires intent, and a modicum of strength on the attacker's part. But the ice-pick, once wielded, is much more lethal.
On preview: what wendell said, totally.
BBF, the only reason I can imagine even wanting to own one would be to play Secret Agent Man: "Oh, look, I'm 007, I'm cool and sophisticated and dan-ger-ous and," wheeze cough, "suffering from emphysema." [reloads long sleek cigarette holder]
It's a good thing cellphones are already banned from public restrooms and swimming pool changing rooms here (because of the built-in cameras) -- at least I know no one will shoot me while I'm naked.
Monkeyfilter: No one will shoot you while you're naked.
The makers of this gun have been watching too many James Bond movies. This cell-phone gun isn't going to drop a 300 pound man from ten feet away.
I do agree that there is no need for a gun like this for public use.
Hey Bob, wanna go hunt some deer with our cell-phones?
MonkeyFilter: No naked shootings since December 17th 2003
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