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Company Creates Gun That Looks Like a Cellphone (nbcnews.com)

Earthquake Retrofit writes: Sometimes you want to carry your gun in peace, but people keep drawing attention to your piece. This very issue plagued Kirk Kjellberg, the creator of Ideal Conceal, a [.380-caliber pistol] that folds up to look like a smartphone. "A boy spotted me in [a] restaurant and said loudly, 'Mommy, Mommy, that guy's got a gun!' And then pretty much the whole restaurant stared at me," Kjellberg told NBC News. He developed Ideal Conceal to avoid those awkward situations. According to NBC News, "In locked position, the two-shot plastic gun with a metal core can be discreetly slipped into pockets, like a real phone. But 'with one click of the safety it opens and is ready to fire,' Ideal Conceal claims. The Department of Homeland Security has contacted him about the pistol, and he plans on giving them x-rays of it so law enforcement can distinguish it from cellphones during airport screenings. An Ideal Conceal prototype is slated for June, with sales beginning in October. The gun is listed for $395."

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  1. Re:Trying to get shot? by Greyfox · · Score: 5, Funny

    No problem! We can just create a cell phone that looks like a gun, so the cops can tell the difference!

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    I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?

  2. Apple? by Tablizer · · Score: 5, Funny

    iShoot

    1. Re:Apple? by OzPeter · · Score: 4, Funny

      iShoot

      uMiss

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  3. Re:Trying to get shot? by Jason+Levine · · Score: 5, Funny

    Are you trying to get shot? Because that is how you get shot...

    ...By grabbing the wrong "phone" and taking a selfie.

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  4. Re:I don't want to live in this planet anymore by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    What if your family, friends, and colleagues are vending machines?!

  5. Darwin by PopeRatzo · · Score: 3, Funny

    How long before we read the story of the Florida man who tried to take a selfie of his dick and ended up blowing his nuts off?

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  6. Re:Trying to get shot? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Recently the TSA stopped a woman from wearing gun themed shoes throug Baltimore airport.

    That wasn't for security reasons, that was for reasons of Good Taste.

  7. Re:Next level social awkwardness by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    [...] I go anywhere I like and can freak out people with my metallic penis if I want to."

    Why does anti-gun libtards are so obsessed about penises? Look, if you crave cocks that is fine, it called being homosexual. It is perfectly acceptable to be homosexual and desire penises in your every orifices, you can drop that silly anti-gun rhetoric now.