(FLORIDA) Panhandle Man Invents Bullet to Prevent Accidental Shootings (NRA Member)

AP Breaking News ^ | 29 July 2002

[Looking for Diogenes]

He didn't invent these I have had "Snap Caps" for years. They protect the firing pin when "Dry firing" the weapon for practice.

The difference is that with his 'safety bullet' you can only pull the trigger once. After that it's jammed.

[Looking for Diogenes]

If my boy, picked my safe, he wouldn't ever be able to pick his nose with that hand.

Neither will the kid in the anecdote.

When he handed the gun to his friend, the boy pulled the trigger and shot through his forearm and elbow. Several surgeries later, the kid is just now getting the use of his hand back.

[Consort]

Safe suicide makes sense.

[Bars4Bill]

I was thinking similarly. How would this stupid idea work in a revolver, where the cylinder could be spun to any live round before firing?

[basil]

he has shown his idea to gun control groups such as the Million Mom March and The Brady Center,

I can't help but wonder why he bothered to try to explain anything to these two groups. Isn't their collective IQ hovering somewhere around 25?

[in the Arena]

So what's the difference between inserting this "safe bullet" in the weapon and clamping a trigger lock on the weapon ?

The "safe bullet" can be defeated with minimal effort.

I'm no fan of trigger locks, but with any intelligence at all a child could remove the "safe bullet" and be good to go...at least with a trigger lock he would first have to find the key.

This is a solution looking for a problem and appears to create more problems than it solves.

People need to start taking responsibility and stop putting the blame on inanimate objects.

[pabianice]

In the meantime, he has shown his idea to gun control groups such as the Million Mom March and The Brady Center,

Who will immediately reject it and continue to demand the confiscation of all privately owned firearms...

[umgud]

I feel that anyone who doesn't have control of their firearms needs more than a safe bullit. BTW, how would this work in a revolver?

[Cultural Jihad]

...remove the little plastic thingee once it's jammed in her now useless gun?

As the article states: "If the owner needed to shoot the weapon for self protection it could be quickly ejected, clearing the way for a real bullet in the next chamber."

[pocat]

I'll rush right out to buy one once they hit the market...

It'll go well with my trigger locks.

[Redcloak]

And when Ms. Havefunrapingmysorrybuttbeforeyoustrangleme forgets to remove the thingee, pulls the trigger, and jams it into the chamber, then what? Does it come with a condom?

[YOMO]

Great idea and invention.
It sorta goes along with mine....
It automaticaly locks the corral gate
once the horse leaves the fenced in area.
The though behind it is that you don't
want the runaway horse stepping on the
ranch hand by accident.

[dighton]

If someone should pull the trigger with the Safety Bullet in the firing chamber, however, it would jam the weapon until removed with a special tool.

Like you said, this guy will get someone killed.

--- Click! ---

"Ha-ha, I wasn't really trying to shoot you! Hold on while I find the 'special tool', Mr. Burglar. I forgot I'd chambered a safety cartridge!"

[Shooter 2.5]

Amen. We're fighting a political and public relations war. Not too many people get that, especially the ones sitting on the sidelines.

[Doomonyou]

In your typical revolver there are six 'chambers', if the shell casing expanded to block one 'chamber' -- you merely, pull the trigger again to bring a new 'chamber' into position. If the casing expands as it enters the barrel and obstucts it -- Then the 'live' round would cause the gun to explode. Prehaps, I'm missing something here??

Not at all, see, you just have to use six of them in a revolver.

[TC Rider]

"A boy who had been trained to use guns safely picked the lock on the gun safe to show his friend his dad's .357 Magnum," Worley said. "When he handed the gun to his friend, the boy pulled the trigger and shot through his forearm and elbow."

"A boy who had been trained to use guns safely picked the lock on the gun safe to show his friend his dad's .357 Magnum," Worley said. "When he handed the gun to his friend, the boy pulled the trigger thus activating the 'Safety Bullet', locking the gun. Several nights later, home invaders crashed through the front door of his home. His father was able to retrieve the .357 from his safe, but it failed to fire."

This strikes me as a bad idea. Kids will figure it out the first time they see it. The Brady bunch will poopoo it, just as they are already poopooing the 'safe biometric' guns set to come onto the market.

What's needed to protect kids in homes with guns, is not a magic bullet, but love and discipline.

[general_re]

"Ha-ha, I wasn't really trying to shoot you! Hold on while I find the 'special tool', Mr. Burglar. I forgot I'd chambered a safety cartridge!"

"Why, it's lucky for me you used that safety cartridge, Mr. or Mrs. Homeowner! If that had been a live round, I could have been seriously injured or even killed. I do feel much safer knowing that you have those around!"

[niteowl77]

An NRA membership does not a proponent of the Second Amendment make, and just what kind of PR coup would EVER lead a rational being to the MMM or a Brady org? Well, hell... Islam is the religion of peace, so I guess Sarah Brady is a good person to talk gun safety with.

I can't believe that anyone smart enough to pick a lock will not be smart enough to find the dummy round, but apparently I'm in the minority around here. Well, all in favor of this gadget had best ready for the state-mandated "safety" bullet. I'll be thinking of you all when I'm forced to use the latest appeasement. Maybe this well-intentioned guy can also include some sort of thermite charge to cut the gun in half when it is snapped, and that will mean one gun less to worry about each time.

But if it saves just one life, it's worth it, right? I mean, the end justifies the means, doesn't it? After all- it's so reasonable.

[Bars4Bill]

I'm convinced, bought, and sold by an article without link, and no doubts whatsoever that Worley really exists and is an NRA member. I'm buying six Worley/Elders Safer Bullets® for my Ruger. Much safer than keeping an empty gun.

With all due respect, Mene, the article sounds like it's written and fronted by HCI and Million Moms, with the cooperation of AP.

[Travis McGee]

It's a stupid idea because when you are awakened at 0345AM by an intruder hitting you with a club and you grab your gun and fire it, it will be jammed and turned into a useless piece of junk.

Or when your wife runs into the house 3 steps ahead of a rapist and killer, and grabs the gun, and fires it to save her life, it will also jam.

Stupid idea. Put a lock on a gun if you must, aware that it must (obviously) be taken off, but don't stick something in the chamber to be forgotten in a life or death crisis and cause it to jam!