MTech defensive pen? ** Updated **
Does anyone use the MTech Tactical/Defensive pen that can comment on it? This is the item: http://www.bladeplay.com/item--MTech-Tactical-Pen-Defense-Tool-w--8629
Here is my situation: Two to three days a week I go into downtown Baltimore for work. I have to go into the courthouse where, of course, no weapons are allowed. I have to go through a scanner but the pen would be in my bag which is searched but not scanned.
I park about five blocks away underneath an expressway in a metered parking lot. It's a little isolated and the stink tells me that the homeless (at least a few of them) live there at night. I feel somewhat vulnerable parking there although I've never seen any trouble or any youths hanging around.
It just occurred to me last week that I could use my plastic ball point pen (free from my title company) as a weapon when walking to and from the car. I know that everyone frowns on anything 'Tacticool', but I'm now thinking that maybe an aluminum pen would be a better tool in this situation than a 'giveaway' plastic pen. I would still keep the plastic pen for writing, so the defensive pen doesn't even need to work well as a pen. It just needs to be a stronger than plastic instrument, that doesn't look like a weapon, and not cost an arm and a leg.
Any comments about my situation and/or this MTech pen? Thanks in advance.
Updated 4/22/12 I found a 6.5 inch, flat top pen by Takedown Gear online that I've ordered. This is almost an inch longer than most pens and appears to have some girth so that I have something to hang onto. It was $13 plus shipping so no big loss if it doesn't work for some reason, but I think it will. And as I said, I don't really care if it works as a pen, it's a striking object that I can have in hand while walking to and from my car and it won't draw attention at the courthouse. Thanks.
Does anyone use the MTech Tactical/Defensive pen that can comment on it? This is the item: http://www.bladeplay.com/item--MTech-Tactical-Pen-Defense-Tool-w--8629
Here is my situation: Two to three days a week I go into downtown Baltimore for work. I have to go into the courthouse where, of course, no weapons are allowed. I have to go through a scanner but the pen would be in my bag which is searched but not scanned.
I park about five blocks away underneath an expressway in a metered parking lot. It's a little isolated and the stink tells me that the homeless (at least a few of them) live there at night. I feel somewhat vulnerable parking there although I've never seen any trouble or any youths hanging around.
It just occurred to me last week that I could use my plastic ball point pen (free from my title company) as a weapon when walking to and from the car. I know that everyone frowns on anything 'Tacticool', but I'm now thinking that maybe an aluminum pen would be a better tool in this situation than a 'giveaway' plastic pen. I would still keep the plastic pen for writing, so the defensive pen doesn't even need to work well as a pen. It just needs to be a stronger than plastic instrument, that doesn't look like a weapon, and not cost an arm and a leg.
Any comments about my situation and/or this MTech pen? Thanks in advance.
Updated 4/22/12 I found a 6.5 inch, flat top pen by Takedown Gear online that I've ordered. This is almost an inch longer than most pens and appears to have some girth so that I have something to hang onto. It was $13 plus shipping so no big loss if it doesn't work for some reason, but I think it will. And as I said, I don't really care if it works as a pen, it's a striking object that I can have in hand while walking to and from my car and it won't draw attention at the courthouse. Thanks.
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