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Author:  DHerbert73 [ Wed 15 Feb 2006 13:43 ]
Post subject:  Cell Phone Gun
I found this and figured I would share the link and the story. You can find the video at the bottom of the page http://famguardian.org/Subjects/Crime/A ... oneGun.htm

This is a follow up to the Security Bulletin that I sent out earlier in the year. The video clip at the bottom will show the cell phone actually firing. Again, these phones have not hit the US (and hopefully never will), but they are in use in overseas. So keep that in mind if you are going through customs and are asked to turn over your cell phone to be checked. Always remember that you should never joke with Custom Officials and you should do your best to cooperate.

“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. European law enforcement officials stunned by the discovery of these deadly decoys say phone guns are changing the rules of engagement in Europe.

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. Although cell phone guns have not hit America yet, the FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, and the U.S. Customs Service say they’ve been briefed on the new weapons.

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 Amesterdam. 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.

Copyright Chris Hansen
Author:  Rob Graff [ Thu 16 Feb 2006 17:14 ]
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What will they think of next
Author:  SpanielPI [ Thu 16 Feb 2006 18:04 ]
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Sounds like something out of a James Bond movie. I don't know how many of you are aware of this, but the .22 calibre was banned from warfare by the Geneva Convention because of its capabilities.

Allegedly, it was the preferred calibre by the Israeli Massad for assassinations..The Browning Hi-power .22, mag fed.

Thirdly, a .22 calibre will penetrate most BP vests. Most BP vests that we wear are designed to stop larger claibres...38's to 44's to 45's and even some rifle calibres. The way this works is that they use a coarser weave to catch the larger bullets. The shortcoming in this is that the coarser weave has a large enough gap in its weave to allow a .22 to pass through it.

I started out with a .22 rifle. by the time I was in my teens I was a dead shot. No squirrell, rabbitt, or tree stump was safe from me.
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