Death by cell phone, a new development

Life imitates pulp spy fiction: the cell phone gun appears.

Italian police officers recently seized a tiny gun that's disguised as a cellphone. It can hold four bullets and is powerful enough to kill somebody.

Comments

[Randy McCall]

It's very cool, but the original story came out in 2003:
http://www.iacsp.com/deadly-decoys.html

The latest cellphone weapons are much harder to detect: cellphone stun guns, whose circuitry looks identical to a normal cell phone to a less-than-expert eye.

[Alec Couros]

yikes, what a lovely development.

[Bryan Alexander]

Randy, do you have any leads to point to?

Wait for more, Alec!

[Randy McCall]

Nothing direct on the Net, unfortunately. Info on this topic as passed on by a friend in the security and protection world. I'll keep checking and see if I can' locate something.

[Randy McCall]

This could be what he was referring to:
http://www.phonesreview.co.uk/2008/03/13/hands-up-it%E2%80%99s-the-sony-ericsson-stun-gun-or-maybe-not/

Though it can't make phone calls, the use of a slider phone design would throw off LEOs looking for the older mono block cell phone stun gun design. Some reports on the slider story suggest the main screen still functioned, as opposed to the old models which have a picture pasted in place.

[Bryan Alexander]

Thanks for digging into this, Randy. Will have to keep an ear open for the meme.

[Cellular Philippine Phone]

Wow looks great..but do you think its safe?

-Ava

[wireless cell phone business]

wow i have never seen anything like this. This is so cool and scary.

[Samantha Cole]

This is one amazing discovery! Making guns look like cellphones is a very creative idea. Technology truly has made it this far. However, as one downside of this technology, it's easier to disguise guns as cellphones. That would make it hard for the authorities to determine if a person is carrying a firearm or a legitimate cellphone.