Gun shaped like smartphone allows firearm owners to ‘carry your pistol with you on any occasion’

And by all means, let's make them hide able.

Can I get a silencer for that? And is it available in a high velocity version? Only two shots? What if I want to kill MOAR???

GUNZ. GUNZ!!!! A Ha Ha Ha Ha HAAAAA !

Second Amendment rights.

Everybody should take one there!

check this one out

...they need to jail the suckers up and throw away the damned key. This is outrageous!

Now a kid pulls out a cell phone and the cop can say, I thought he was pulling out a gun.

Just wait until they come out with smartphones that are actually guns and smartphones. Just think, to be able to tweet and facebook from the convenient location of your nearest shooting range. To be able to talk to your spouse on the phone while out grocery shopping - while still being ready to defend yourself at a moment's notice.

I guess this stuff is pretty common... and, I think people are scared. I think the number of guns in this Country - and the popularity of the NRA and the constant gun promotion and so on... I think it's a sign, not that we're tough, but that we're afraid.

A better chance to shoot somebody and more people to get shot. They should bring out a model for children that looks like a popsicle.

Don't forget to loosen the lanyard when you need to shoot.

This is not funny, but I couldn't help but laugh at your comment. All I could think of was that movie Airplane and everyone unloading their guns at once.

On a serious note and I haven't read most threads, more people will die. All a cop or person (in some states) has to say, "I thought his/her phone was a gun.......

D:

the pockets of paranoid yahoos walking down our streets.

A gun that looks like a phone puts everyone with a phone at risk if they're stopped by a cop for anything.

We'll be talking about the problem of "cell phone use while Black" soon.

and play Russian Roulette instead?

Those would sell like hotcakes.

Just like how Scalia could go back in time to read their minds, they were all capable of time vision and knew there would be cellphones and we could make guns that looked like one.

Fits perfectly in with the concept of the 2nd amendment.

"Avoid" in what way, exactly?

Guns hidden in regular objects have been a thing for hundreds of years now, and they're basically a niche market that no one else gives cares about.

Law abiding owners won't want them because part of being "law abiding" is not sneaking your piece into places you're not allowed to have one. Spree killers won't want them because two shots of a .380 out of a weapon of questionable accuracy is just enough to get everyone's attention before you get your ass beat. Self defense purchasers won't want them because no one is going to let you take a five minute break to get your gun all set up to shoot.

It's a novelty gun. No one but collectors and idiots are going to want them.

some undeserving soul.

These should be illegal IMO.

I mean, a regular handgun you have to pull it out and it's ready to shoot, has more bullets, and magazines are easily changeable. This thing everyone is going to stare at the dipshit trying to make his cell phone transform just to be able to fire 2 shots.

I don't disagree with you that they should be illegal. They don't serve a legitimate need, (As I mentioned, it's a stupid weapon for self defense, even spree killers wouldn't want it, and anyone trying to hunt with a 2 shot .380 handgun shouldn't be allowed to own firearms.) and could serve several illegitimate ones. About the only two demographics that would want something like this are huge nerds (As a nerd, I say that with love.) or people who are desperate to be armed when the people around them aren't or aren't expecting someone to be armed. I'm ok with the former being prevented from owning a collectible if it keeps them out of the hands of the latter.

I bet within the first ten of these being sold some moron will either get arrested trying to bring one on a plane or get arrested after bragging on twitter about getting one on a plane.

imagine something different than what I said.

Having to UNFOLD it before you can shoot it? It's more likely to hit a by-stander.. I'll quote myself, "an undeserving soul".

Ease off, bud.

I think pretty much whoever this hits is going to be an undeserving soul. That's what I meant by what they're for.

Edit: Although now that I think about it, the unfolding part is kind of funny. As a person that can't set a mouse trap without it closing on my hands three times, I have a feeling if I owned one of these and ever tried to use it on someone, it'd end up being a "One bullet for me, one for you" kind of situation.

As someone previously posted, these types of devices have been around for a long time. At a recent gun show they were selling a 2 shot pistol that had the size and dimensions of a folding pocket knife.

I actually don't worry about these types of devices. They aren't very accurate and really meet the true definition of a 1-2 shot last resort, close range defensive weapon.

I worry about assault rifles in the hands of untrained and emotionally unstable people.

device aside for reasons you said).

Most of the time it's not rifles or shotguns used in mass shootings or criminal assaults, it's handguns. I don't know if banning handguns would dramatically reduce the problem or if criminals would just switch over to long guns and if we should ban those too. I think most of the people screaming about any gun bans being wrong (even for the mentally ill) are in fact mentally ill themselves.

tend to be the most dangerous kind.

America, Fuck yeah!

the police shoot someone for reaching for their cell phone they can honestly say they feared for their lives. Not to mention that anybody with a cell phone is liable to be shot by a person with a gun, who can then claim self defense. This has to be one of the stupidest ideas ever.

DO YOUR JOB !!

then taking our shoes off at the airport might finally make some sense.