NYPD warns on cell phone guns

Washington Times ^ | 5-18-06 | UPI

[JZelle]

The New York Police Department has issued a warning to officers to watch for secret .22-caliber guns that look like cell phones. The May 11 order by Commissioner Ray Kelly is only a warning since none have been found in the United States, the New York Post reports, but law enforcement in Europe have found stockpiles in the Netherlands and Slovenia and arrested carriers throughout the continent. The gun, heavier than a cell phone, uses the fake cell phone's

[JZelle]

Guess they'll have to ban cell phones now. ;)

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

NYPD warns on cell phone guns

Mods are very strict about title threads.

[reagan_fanatic]

What does the title have to do with the story!?

[JZelle]

Sorry about the title, it should be:
"NYPD warns on cell phone guns"

[Responsibility2nd]

[Crystal23]

Ooh, I want one!

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Darn it!

I'm always locked into a two-year contract when they come out with the latest models.

Does Verizon or Cingular have an exclusive on these?

[bobbyd]

Ooh, I want one!

Me too!

[restornu]

This was the reason for shooting Amadou Diallo because the NYPD thought Amadou Diallo wallet was a gun!
http://www.internationalist.org/NYPDdeathsquad.html

[JJR RNCH]

"Can you hear me now?" "Can you hear (bang!!!)

[Billthedrill]

I'll snicker the first time some clown makes one in .50 BMG.

Then I'll buy it.

[LIConFem]

Hi, I'd like to purchase a cell phone, please.

Certainly, sir. What caliber would you like?

[Westlander]

Try T-Mobile.
They have a new 'rounds per minute promotion'.

[HEY4QDEMS]

"Can you hear me, NOW! mother****er!!!"

[Hydroshock]

LOL

[Rome2000]

The question is whether NYC drivers will be able to drive and talk on their handguns.

[Lee Heggy123]

"Guess they'll have to ban cell phones now."

Yep. They will join the other banned things like flame thorwing perfume bottles and eyebrow pencil poison needle injectors and of course the knockout gas ballpoint pen.

'"I'm Bond...James Bond."

[cobaltblu]

I'm way too big of a flake to own one of these. Probably shoot myself in the head on day one.

[Rakkasan1]

or just be a nice guy and buy the ex-wife a cell phone :)

[BadAndy]

"The question is whether NYC drivers will be able to drive and talk on their handguns."

Great idea, I don't think it would be hard to incorporate a sliver into a grip panel of a Colt 1911.

[from occupied ga]

The New York Police Department has issued a warning to officers to watch for secret .22-caliber guns that look like cell phones. The May 11 order by Commissioner Ray Kelly is only a warning since none have been found in the United States,

Typical of NYC police; more worried about guns that aren't even around than actual crime.

[dhuffman@awod.com]

The very definition of 'proactive', make it a crime before they ... ah ... appear?

[CPOSharky]

Would it be OK if you have a concealed carry permit?

[Calvin Locke]

My Lord! Hollywood sets the pace! Spielberg/Barrymore were ahead of their time, digitally ruining E.T.!

Now it's come back to bite them! It's all Spielberg's fault.

[CWOJackson]

Wow. "Can you hear me now...punk."

[Calvin Locke]

Now that you bring it up, Mary Mapes, of Rathergate, made her bones haranguing police for shooting a guy that came out
of the house with what turned out to be a tv remote control.

[absolootezer0]

aren't these supposed to be registered as AOWs?

[Conservative4Ever]

Ooh, I want one!

Me three...do you think they would have it in pink? :)

[GovernmentShrinker]

Another toy for Muttly's Santa list . . .

[catmanblack.]

I bet you could put a 45 in a shoe phone.

[steveo]

Doesn't this same subject come up every 8 months or so?

[reagan_fanatic]

I'm way too big of a flake to own one of these. Probably shoot myself in the head on day one.

Reminds me of this old cartoon...

[pointsal]

Does Verizon require a two-year contract???

[tumblindice]

"Catherine, I shot my mouth off. I'm sorry."

[Sender]

New Moto-Capper® makes troubleshooting easy! 25-to-life contract required.

[AngryJawa]

Hey, maybe Bloomie can sue someone in Georgia because these weapons actually *exist*!

[PoorMuttly]

Yes!

OTOH, may just go back to mounting a bayonet on my regular cell phone...could help with eating the sausage I carry in my other cell phone case. Me do also have a fake pager which shoots pepper mace, and a knife with a knife in it, only I lost the directions, so I plan to just throw it like a rock...which I have in my other other cell phone case.

[longtermmemmory]

Remember the inventor trying to market the .22 cal pager gun? (four single shot 22's in a pager shell)

Of course there is always the 22 zip gun pen single shot.

Essentially all these are deringers using 100+ year old tech.

[GovernmentShrinker]

Careful, I heard they may outlaw bayonet lugs on cell phones. On account of all the crimes committed with cell phone mounted bayonets, you know . . .

[PoorMuttly]

Actually, I worked with a guy who lost his job in "corrections" because an client in his care expired after somehow consuming a telephone.

Perhaps, if cellular telephones were in common use then, and as small as they currently are, a simple laxative may have saved both the job of the feeder, and the life of the feedee.

Technology can be a dangerous thing.