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Got this in a email from a friend along with quick time file showing how they work. You use the buttons to fire the rounds and at >10' it could put a world of hurt on a person.
If you get asked to test your cell phone at the airport, this is the
>> > reason. Because cell phone guns have been discovered. The attached
>>video
>> > clip shows how cell phone guns operate. These phones are not in the US
>> > yet, but they are in use overseas. Beneath the digital phone face is a
>> > .22 caliber handgun capable of firing four rounds in rapid succession
>> > using the standard telephone keypad. European law enforcement officials
>> > are stunned by the discovery of these deadly decoys. They say phone
>>guns
>> > are changing the rules of engagement in Europe ."We find it 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 cell phone." Although cell phone guns have not
>>reached
>> > the US yet, the FBI, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and the
>> > U.S.Customs Service say they have been briefed on the new weapons.
>> >
>> > All US ports of entry have been alerted. These covert weapons were
>>first
>> > discovered in October of 2000 when Dutch police came upon 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 a warning to law enforcement agencies around the world.
>> > "If you
>> > didn't know they were guns, you would think they were cell phones,"
>>said
>> > Ari Zandbergen, a spokesperson for the Amsterdam police. "Only when
>>you
>> > have one
>> > in your hand do you realize that they are heavier than a regular cell
>> > phone."
If you get asked to test your cell phone at the airport, this is the
>> > reason. Because cell phone guns have been discovered. The attached
>>video
>> > clip shows how cell phone guns operate. These phones are not in the US
>> > yet, but they are in use overseas. Beneath the digital phone face is a
>> > .22 caliber handgun capable of firing four rounds in rapid succession
>> > using the standard telephone keypad. European law enforcement officials
>> > are stunned by the discovery of these deadly decoys. They say phone
>>guns
>> > are changing the rules of engagement in Europe ."We find it 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 cell phone." Although cell phone guns have not
>>reached
>> > the US yet, the FBI, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and the
>> > U.S.Customs Service say they have been briefed on the new weapons.
>> >
>> > All US ports of entry have been alerted. These covert weapons were
>>first
>> > discovered in October of 2000 when Dutch police came upon 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 a warning to law enforcement agencies around the world.
>> > "If you
>> > didn't know they were guns, you would think they were cell phones,"
>>said
>> > Ari Zandbergen, a spokesperson for the Amsterdam police. "Only when
>>you
>> > have one
>> > in your hand do you realize that they are heavier than a regular cell
>> > phone."
