Do they have these in a .45?
http://www.themercury.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,7364933%5E421,00.html
Woman shoots friend with 'pen'
By Peter Jean
25sep03
A WOMAN picked up what she thought was a pen from the floor of a Canberra nightclub and accidentally shot her friend, police said yesterday.
The pen was a cleverly disguised gun, banned in Australia but is advertised on overseas websites.
The victim was hit in the chest with a projectile which had to be surgically removed, police said.
Police ballistics experts were still examining the projectile but believed it was made from some sort of metal.
Pen guns are commonly loaded with 0.22 calibre bullets.
Federal Police Detective Constable Naomi Binstead said the incident, which happened about two weeks ago, highlighted the dangers of pen guns.
"The pen gun was on the floor and was picked up," Const Binstead said in a statement.
"The victim's friend was playing with a spring on the pen gun when a small projectile was fired towards her friend and hit her."
A police spokesman said pen guns were usually handmade but the gun in the nightclub shooting appeared to have been engineered professionally.
Pen guns are banned in Australia but overseas websites advertise them as being available by mail order.
They are typically about 14 centimetres long and can also resemble tubular cigar-holders.
The nightclub shooting comes after pen guns were found during searches of jails in NSW and Victoria earlier this year.
A Sydney man appeared in Liverpool Local Court in July charged with murdering a school student with a pen gun.
Gun Control Australia president John Crook said it was difficult for Customs authorities and Australia Post to detect something as small as a gun concealed in a pen.
He said they were probably mostly brought into the country as souvenirs.
"(The greatest) likelihood is that these come in on people who want to show off," Mr Crook told reporters.
A NSW police spokeswoman urged anyone with a pen gun to surrender it as part of the gun amnesty which begins in the state on October 1.
http://www.themercury.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,7364933%5E421,00.html
Woman shoots friend with 'pen'
By Peter Jean
25sep03
A WOMAN picked up what she thought was a pen from the floor of a Canberra nightclub and accidentally shot her friend, police said yesterday.
The pen was a cleverly disguised gun, banned in Australia but is advertised on overseas websites.
The victim was hit in the chest with a projectile which had to be surgically removed, police said.
Police ballistics experts were still examining the projectile but believed it was made from some sort of metal.
Pen guns are commonly loaded with 0.22 calibre bullets.
Federal Police Detective Constable Naomi Binstead said the incident, which happened about two weeks ago, highlighted the dangers of pen guns.
"The pen gun was on the floor and was picked up," Const Binstead said in a statement.
"The victim's friend was playing with a spring on the pen gun when a small projectile was fired towards her friend and hit her."
A police spokesman said pen guns were usually handmade but the gun in the nightclub shooting appeared to have been engineered professionally.
Pen guns are banned in Australia but overseas websites advertise them as being available by mail order.
They are typically about 14 centimetres long and can also resemble tubular cigar-holders.
The nightclub shooting comes after pen guns were found during searches of jails in NSW and Victoria earlier this year.
A Sydney man appeared in Liverpool Local Court in July charged with murdering a school student with a pen gun.
Gun Control Australia president John Crook said it was difficult for Customs authorities and Australia Post to detect something as small as a gun concealed in a pen.
He said they were probably mostly brought into the country as souvenirs.
"(The greatest) likelihood is that these come in on people who want to show off," Mr Crook told reporters.
A NSW police spokeswoman urged anyone with a pen gun to surrender it as part of the gun amnesty which begins in the state on October 1.
