Company Creates Gun That Looks Like a Cellphone

[IceWizard]

By Rachel Dicker
March 29, 2016, at 3:45 p.m.




Sometimes you want to carry your gun in peace, but people keep drawing attention to your piece. This very issue plagued Kirk Kjellberg, the creator of Ideal Conceal, a gun that folds up to look like a smartphone.

"A boy spotted me in [a] restaurant and said loudly, 'Mommy, Mommy, that guy's got a gun!'

And then pretty much the whole restaurant stared at me," Kjellberg told NBC News.

He developed Ideal Conceal to avoid those awkward situations.

The pseudo-smartphone-turned-gun is a .380 caliber pistol that Kjellberg told NBC News is about the size of a Samsung Galaxy S7 phone with a protective case. Though it won't be available until later this year, Ideal Conceal is turning heads already. More than 4,000 people have expressed interest in purchasing the gun, Kjellberg told KARE, an NBC affiliate in Minnesota.

Naysayers, however, may worry about the safety of a weapon disguised to look like something else. "In America, we have lots of children in contact with pistols already," Kjellberg explained to NBC News. "For me, it's not the gun. It's the people. So if you have a pistol and you have children anywhere near you, it's your responsibility to lock that stuff up and keep it away from children."

Perhaps to his point, in a social experiment conducted in Iowa, of eight children who were put into a room full of toys and an unloaded pistol, only the children whose parents were gun owners did not touch the weapon.

NBC News reports that the Department of Homeland Security has contacted Kjellberg about the pistol, and he planned to provide officials with X-rays of the gun so airport screeners can tell the difference between the product and a cellphone.

The gun is currently priced at $395, with sales reportedly expected to begin in October.



***Comment***

This will most certainly bring new meaning to "selfie"...

[Charon]

This will most certainly bring new meaning to "selfie"... (Quoting Ice Wizard.)

Oh, u r bad to the bone. Funny, though.

Man, this has bad Idea written all over it.

We cannot get meds anymore. But, we can carry a concealed firearm that appears to be a Cell phone.

I wonder how many will die, or use this at our airports. (I did hear about this last week.)

Good find, Ice.

[Cricket]

This is just so wrong on many levels.

I am in no way against people being able to buy or carry guns, but come on... this will get more people killed and how does our LE distinguish someone holding a cellphone and not a gun?

I can see it now.  Someone gets killed by a cellphone gun and then a zillion others get killed holding a real cellphone and the media and all those groups go crazy because an innocent person died, but whomever shot them did not know they weren't in danger.  And on and on....................................................

This is a really stupid idea. Are cops gonna start shooting people using their phones if they think it's a gun?
What the hell are these people making these phone/guns thinking? This has to be one of the dumbest and most dangerous ideas I've heard of.

What is wrong with this world?

[Back2Good]

TSA is going to love this one, I'm sure

I'm a gun hoarder beyond description, two gun safes for my rifles and shotguns, and a loaded pistol (all revolvers, of various makes and models - If you need a pistol quickly, you don't want to have to worry about jam prone semi-auto magazine loaded models leaving you in an awkward position) conveniently located in a drawer near each door to our home, and one in mine and my wife's nightstand, also loaded.  An unloaded pistol is just a piece of metal, might as well keep a baseball bat leaning against the wall.  I don't carry, as I don't frequent locations where it might be necessary to do so - But home defense is essential in this day and age, and my wife and I visit the range at least twice a month to keep our shooting skills up to par.  As for the rifles,  they are mostly collector's pieces (all functional, but rarely fired, and then just for fun) - And I build AR-15 A1 and A2 models from parts as a hobby, have to maintain an FFL so that I can build them for friends who don't want to pay $1200 for a fully assembled new one.  With the exception of the lower receiver, (which costs about a fourth as much to build as to buy completed), they are weekend projects - The only thing easier to build from parts is an AK, far fewer moving parts than the AR.

That said, I think this "cell phone gun" is a terrible idea - This, along with pistols manufactured from composites rather than metal is the sort of thing the ATF should be worrying about, not "scary" semi-automatic rifles with terrifying hand grips and 40-round magazines...You know, the ones the government and the media have dubbed "assault weapons".  For God's sake, in the right person's hand, a credit card or a length of 550 cord can be an "assault weapon".

[Smalls]

So sadsad what thi's world has come to...

[CrystallineCrusader]

I'll have to scoop up the link, but it's speculated that this is fake. It was a false startup that is little more than what renderings you see here.

There have however, been .22 caliber, short cellphones for many years now! Four cartridge capacity, each with its own breech, barrel, and trigger (disguised as a button).

[IceWizard]

So what makes you think this is fake? ... Am I missing something here or are you just "in the know"...

Ice

[CrystallineCrusader]

Just look really hard at it, it's computer generated. This is nothing more than Buzzfeed-worthy hype. No matter how hard you Google, all you can find are news reports that are nearly all written the same. Also, there's only two pictures of it at all. Not to mention many of the articles state that it's a prototype ready for October production. Supposedly this was all a startup.

I just think it's some false scare tactics with all the shootings going on. That or someone made off with the wrongly acquired funds from a faux-startup campaign.

[IceWizard]

So what I getting from you is paranoia with the news agencies... Notjing thay say is "accually news"... So maybe you should start your own site so that maybe you can "bring the truth to light!"

I'm quite sure your following would rival the BBC, NBC, and REUTERS combined....

Don't know who you are ... Let me start again.. Don't care who you are, but all your hollow BS about everything being fake is starting to wear on my nerves... Maybe it's YOU which is fake...

You're not coming off very well here...

Ice

NBC

[G.Elias]

I saw this on some news channel in last week or so,thought it was an april fools joke but it was before the !st.
I can think of quite a few who i'd like to see take a selfie with this,no one here btw.

The guy who came up with this needs some serious mental evaluation,hopefully then he'll end up in a padded cell,imagine going to the bank and asking for a loan to develop this,actually he'd probably hold up the bank with his phone,what next i wonder from man?(and its always men behind this gun shit)