Question about a concealment device.

[LiberalismIsIllogical]

Okay this is going to sound like a very dumb question, but I think these are/would be a kool thing to have.

Okay, in the movie "Desperado" with Antonio Benderez, near the end he has his hands in the air. His brother is in front of him and asks him to make some sort of decision. He quickly straightens his arms above his head and out pop two .45's, one out of each sleave of his shirt attached to some type of spring loaded mechanism.

My question is, what the heck are these? And who makes them? Where can I buy a pair of them???

Thanks.

 

[Chris Rhines]

My question is, what the heck are these?

Nothing like that really exists. Try it yourself - try fitting a Ruger P95 up your sleeve. It doesn't work too well.

I've heard of people who conceal a tiny backup gun inside a sleeve garter (like an Ace bandage wrapped around the forearm. That could work with an NAA Mini or something of similar size.

- Chris

 

[dfariswheel]

These are a typical Hollywood fantasy device.

There have been various attempts to make such devices, that would extend a knife or small gun, but none of them ever really worked.

The most reasonable of them involved wires down the arm and over the back that would trigger the extender when the wire was pulled by extending or raising the arm and stretching the wire.

Think about how LARGE your sleeves would have to be, how heavy and clumsy your arms would be, and how uncomfortable they would be.
There's also the problem of the mechanism or the gun getting fouled in the sleeve.


Also, there's the problem of instinctively reaching to shake hands or open the door, and suddenly your gat pops out of your sleeve.

 

[Wild Bill]

Best I could find...from a site for the DeNiro movie Taxi Driver. Pure Hollywood.

http://www.msu.edu/user/svoboda1/taxi_driver/pictures/talk2me.jpg

 

[psyopspec]

Highly suggest you take a class on gun safety/CCW before making up your mind that carrying up the sleeve could conceivably be a good idea. Hollywood and hardcore liberals are the worst places, respectively, to learn about firearms and the methods by which they should be carried.

Good luck.

 

[Double Maduro]

Actually, during th riverboat gambling days, the original, not today, some gamblers carried what, I believe, was called a "spring gun", usually a derringer that was concealed up a sleeve and could be deployed by releasing a spring with a pinch of the arm or an extension of the arm.

Never heard of one for a full size weapon.

DM

 

[OrvilleYertleson]

If you are interested in other, perhaps more practical was to conceal a weapon, let us know. People on this board are more than happy to help, or to at least point you in the right direction.

 

[Cosmoline]

It could be done with a very small semi, a la "Taxi Driver," and could be concealed with a skinny guy and a very big coat. But what's the point? It's so much easier to just use an ankle holster, belly band, shoulder holster, jacket holster, IWB holster, or any one of a dozen established concealment methods that don't rely on a complex handmade mechanism.

 

[Yooper]

You could use something like that if you wore a sailor's uniform, you would sure look like Popeye!

 

[Wayne D]

Didn't Robert Conrad have one on "The Wild Wild West"?

 

[scbair]

"Didn't Robert Conrad have one on "The Wild Wild West"?"

Yep; he also used a double-barreled derringer to proper a barbed projectile with a line attached upward into a beam or tree limb. He'd then swing or traverse on the line to escape . . . whatever.

Y'all go ahead & give this a try with a .41 rimfire charge. Lemme know how it works out!

Serious reply; I've read some accounts of a shady type suspending a derringer up a sleeve via a cord that went through the sleeve, across the back, and down the othe sleeve, secured by a loop around a finger on the weak hand. by "shortening" the weak side arm (or, I suppose, releasing the loop), the sleeve gun would drop into the shooting hand. Sounds feasible, but certainly not practical. Nothing I'd care to rely upon, at any rate.

 

[nomadboi]

"Equilibrium" had something similar, with little spring arms changing the clip in his modified Beretta (?)... just film tricks- they actually held the thing behind his arm to make it work.

Kinda like in "Highlander" where the guy can just pull a sword out of his sportscoat, no matter if he's been running, sitting, etc. in the scene before.

 

[Richard.Howe]

Question about a concealment device

oh, you mean a cloak of invisibility?

 

[dfariswheel]

Elmer Keith once wrote about an old-timer using the "String trick" in a barroom shooting in Idaho.

A strong string is used to hang a gun down your coat sleeve.

By bending your arm the gun will slide out the sleeve where you can grip it.

Keith said this was a trick used by people in mining and cow towns where carrying guns was prohibited.

 

[rlq9thrk]

a la "Grosse Point Blank"?

The unusual concealment device used in this movie would be easy to duplicate. Just hold the pistol in one hand and hold a small paper bag over it with the other.