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Title: Cell Phone Gun
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Published: Feb 13, 2008
Author: Staff
Post Date: 2008-02-13 22:25:45 by Horse
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#1. To: Horse (#0)
At first sight it looks like a regular cell phone — same size, same shape, same overall appearance. But beneath the digital face lies a .22-caliber pistol, a phone gun capable of firing four rounds in quick succession with a touch of the otherwise standard keypad. The US Department of Homeland Security and the FBI are aware of the device and have instructed baggage screeners to be on the lookout for suspicious mobile phones. This is especially after 9/11. European law enforcement officials — stunned by the discovery of these deadly decoys — say phone guns are changing the rules of engagement in Europe. Airport authorities across Europe are implementing systems to X-ray all cell phones “We find it very, very alarming,” says Wolfgang Dicke of the German Police union. “It means police will have to draw their weapons whenever a person being checked reaches for their mobile phone.” The FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, and the U.S. Customs Service say they’ve been briefed on the new weapons. “This criminal invention represents a potentially serious threat to law enforcement and the public,” said U.S. Customs Service Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly. “We received word about these guns last month. We have since alerted our field personnel to be on the lookout for ‘cell phone guns’ at U.S. ports of entry.” Guns on the Move These new covert guns were first discovered in October when Dutch police stumbled on a cache during a drug raid in Amsterdam. In another recent incident a Croatian gun dealer was caught attempting to smuggle a shipment through Slovenia into Western Europe. Police say both shipments are believed to have originated in Yugoslavia. Interpol sent out a warning to law enforcement agencies around the world. European border police and customs officers are at a heightened state of alert at all ports, airports and border crossings.Realistic Appearance ‘If you didn’t know they were guns, you wouldn’t suspect anything,” said Ari Zandbergen, spokesman for the Amsterdam police. “Only when you have one in your hand do you realize that they are heavier,” says Birgit Heib of the German Federal Criminal Investigation Agency. The guns are loaded by twisting the phone in half. The .22-caliber rounds fit into the top of the phone under the screen. The lower half, under the keyboard, holds the firing pins. The bullets fire through the antenna by pressing the keypad from numbers five to eight. Amsterdam police says they are very sophisticated machines constructed inside gutted cell phones which do not light up or operate as real phones. “These are very difficult to make. We believe experts are involved,” says Zandbergen. U.S. authorities, including the FBI, ATF, Federal Aviation Administration and the U.S. Customs Service Authority have been supplied detailed information and pictures of these new weapons. “They’ve been given a heads up,” said Jim Crandall, ATF spokesman. To date no phone guns have been discovered either in the United States or in the process of being smuggled in, authorities say. But they know it’s only a matter of time. FAA spokeswoman Rebecca Trexler said airport security officers had been trained to deal with this new threat. “We don’t want to tell the bad guys exactly what we’re looking for,” she says, “We are trying to stay one step ahead.”Will Affect Travelers Airport authorities across Europe are implementing systems to X-ray all cell phones, those procedures will likely be followed by airports around the world. “This is just one more item that we need to pay special attention to because nowadays, of course just about every passenger carries a mobile phone,” says the spokesman for Frankfurt airport security. Customs officials in the U.S. say their safety procedure has normally been to require travelers to turn their phones on, however that may no longer be enough. Cell phone users will have to be made aware that reaching for their phones in some circumstances could be misinterpreted as a threat by authorities. http://www.cellular.co.za/phones/gunphone/gun-phone.htm
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Our last hope for peace No, not really. Common thugs won't use them so neither law enforcement nor the public is affected much. Law abiding people would use them to thwart crime though. Thugs want to show a gun when the rob someone. Whipping out a cell phone and demanding cash doesn't seem like it would work very well.
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LOL! LOL! LOL! Yeah, RIGHT!! Cell phone users will have to be made aware that reaching for their phones in some circumstances could be misinterpreted as a threat by authorities. Oops. Now THAT is not so funny. Why do I see some dead smuck lying in an airport in some US city, just for daring to answer his cell phone?
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It's probably something cooked up by the gestapo to give the nazis plausible deniability when they shoot someone for no reason. ooops, he was reaching for cellphone, thought it was a cell phone gun.
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Sounds right to me.
Shit, it's essentially just a "Zip" gun in a box. A Zip gun being a low caliber gun produced by rigging a barrel out of something like a piece of car antenna (old hollow style) on a block and having a rimfire cartridge resting in it struck, usually by something accelerated by a rubber band... "Tech" would be making it launch a non-standard projectile (like a hard antenna piece or sabot of the phone body) utilizing reloading powder and piezoelectric igniters...
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Holy shit....pretty soon, we'll be dran down on by any cop that comes in contact with us. I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore.
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#2. To: X-15 (#1)
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#3. To: X-15 (#1)
“This criminal invention represents a potentially serious threat to law enforcement and the public,”
#4. To: X-15 (#1)
“We are trying to stay one step ahead.”
#5. To: X-15 (#1)
#6. To: Critter (#5)
ooops, he was reaching for cellphone, thought it was a cell phone gun
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#7. To: X-15 (#1)
(Edited)
“These are very difficult to make. We believe experts are involved,” says Zandbergen.
#8. To: X-15 (#1)
Cell phone users will have to be made aware that reaching for their phones in some circumstances could be misinterpreted as a threat by authorities.
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#9. To: Horse (#0)
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