Controversial new handgun design looks exactly like a smartphone

[WhiteTara]

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/controversial-handgun-design-looks-exactly-smartphone-193557510.html

A new company from Minnesota that's appropriately enough called Ideal Conceal has created quite a bit of controversy after touting the creation of a handgun designed to look like a smartphone.

"Smartphones are everywhere," the company's website reads, "so your new pistol will easily blend in with today’s environment. In its locked position it will be virtually undetectable because it hides in plain sight.

Set for release sometime in mid-2016, the pistol is a double-barreled .380 caliber firearm sporting a one-piece frame construction. The company plans to sell it for $395 and its developer, one Kirk Kjellberg, claims that they've already received upwards of 2,500 emails from interested buyers.

As for the impetus behind the firearm's creation, Kjellberg recently told CNN how he happened across the idea.

[madaboutharry]

1. This should be illegal.

Now police will shoot even more innocent people thinking that an actual phone is one of these guns. What a sick screwed-up thing to invent.

[WhiteTara]

2. I agree.

[meow2u3]

11. This probably IS illegal

At least in Pennsylvania, AFAIK.

[Enrique]

14. nope, 2nd amendment

it specifically says we have to be totally stupid about anything related to guns.

[dchill]

3. Does anyone else often pick up their phone backwards?

[braddy]

4. Years ago there was one that looked like a pager, I saw one of the Boy Scout type

pocket knife, single shot pistols, that Al Capone had made in the 1930s as gifts.

As the 3D printers advance, we are going to see all kinds of stuff.

[global1]

5. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?....(sarcasm)

[eppur_se_muova]

22. "Hello ?" **BANG!!** nt

[Hoyt]

6. Scared Gunners can carry it in their hand when walking down the street. And folks wonder

why some of us want to sue gun manufacturers and gun stores for pandering to unstable gun addicts.

[Angel Martin]

7. similar things have ben around for a while

http://www.usacarry.com/taurus-curve-review/


all I can suggest is rapid and complete compliance with police instructions.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

8. Yeah. Compliance in not filming the cops beat a black kid's brains in.

[silverweb]

9. Insanity!

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]This must be banned and made illegal!

[Amishman]

12. under current law it would be regulated just like machine gun

Did a little digging and guns that are made to look it non-gun items are already restricted under the National Firearms Act.

Sounds like it would be subject to a $200 special tax, special registration, and additional background checks

Found this on the ATF website. This thing would fit right in with the other sneak weapon examples at the bottom of the page
[link:https://www.atf.gov/firearms/firearms-guides-importation-verification-firearms-national-firearms-act-definitions-any|

[NutmegYankee]

17. No, it wouldn't.

Because it can only be fired by opening it up into a normal non-concealed pistol shape, it isn't covered like cane or pen guns and it's also exempt because of the rifled barrel.

[silverweb]

18. Thanks for that.

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]It's something, anyway.

Appreciate the digging you did and the information.

[Marrah_G]

10. STUPID

[Enrique]

13. listen to how he got the idea

Kjellberg has a concealed carry permit and said he got the idea when he was walking through a restaurant and a young boy saw his pistol.
"This little kid says, 'Mommy, Mommy, that man's got a gun,' so the whole restaurant looks at you like you're about to shoot the place up," Kjellberg said. "So I thought to myself there's got to be another way to be able to carry without bothering other people."


fantastic!!!! Now we have a gun that kids think is just a phone!!!! Thanks so much, you genius!!!

[WhiteTara]

20. Just another responsible gun owner

who doesn't want to scare the public?! What a nightmare!

[Orrex]

15. How many murders will be blamed on butt-dialing?

And how many on wrong numbers?

[B Calm]

16. Nothing could ever go wrong here.

[Heeeeers Johnny]

19. Somehow I suspect a magnificently executed troll is at play.

Saw this earlier on a couple of news outlets, blogs and the response and commentary was nothing short of unfounded
paranoia and outrage.

And if it does happen to be genuine, it doesn't seem like it would be of much use as a sidearm for personal defense.

[Tom Rinaldo]

21. That could be used to justify hundreds of more killings by police.

"I thought he had a smart phone pistol raised at me!" And that is no joking matter if these things ever catch on.