Schumer: New Gun Resembling iPhone 'Disaster Waiting to Happen

[Eugene]

Source: ABC News

Schumer: New Gun Resembling iPhone 'Disaster Waiting to Happen

By BENJAMIN SIEGEL
Apr 5, 2016, 2:23 PM ET

New York's senior senator wants a federal investigation into a new handgun, over concerns that it too-closely resembles an iPhone.

On Monday, Senator Chuck Schumer, D-New York, asked the Justice Department and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms to block sales of a double barreled .380 caliber handgun from gun maker Ideal Conceal.

"This iPhone gun is a disaster waiting to happen,” Schumer said in a news conference Monday in New York.

The gun, according to the manufacturer's website, is, "ingeniously designed to resemble a smartphone, yet with one click of the safety it opens and is ready to fire."

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[ileus]

1. gimmik just buy a LCP, and pocket holster, 6+1 beats 2 that you have to unfold.

[gejohnston]

2. I think the phone case

with a pistol grip is a bigger issue. Schumer is a grandstanding fool.

[Hangingon]

3. Mike time for the senator

He has spoken against Airsoft guns and pink/purple guns.

[jmg257]

4. Schumer in danger of shooting his mouth off again??

[JonathanRackham]

5. Looks like a shell phone.

No high capacity clip either.

[benEzra]

6. Aren't disguised firearms restricted as Title II AOW's?

If so, they are very tightly controlled under current Federal law (as in "10-year Federal felony for unauthorized possession&quot , and only people who could buy one would be law enforcement, military, or people who get Federal authorization to own one via the BATFE Title II process.

From a practical standpoint, an 8- shot pocket gun the size of an iPhone that is instantly shootable is a lot more effective (or in the wrong hands, more of a threat) than a 2-shot gun you have to play Transformers with in order to get it to work. But I realize that "ZOMG THE SKY IS FALLING" is Mr. Schumer's shtick, and he's been playing that same tune since he first tried to put people in cages for owning protruding rifle handgrips.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

7. Mr Schumer is one who actually...

...needs a 'grip'.

[gejohnston]

8. not likely since it folds out to expose a trigger and has the grip

there is actually a pen gun that is Title One for the same reason
http://pengun.com/

From a practical standpoint, the concept more stupid than the COP pepperbox.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COP_.357_Derringer

[DonP]

9. Most dangerous place in New York ...

... is anywhere between Schumer and a TV camera with the red light on.

[beevul]

10. I see. Which ones does he think are ok?

[DonP]

11. The ones his bodyguards carry, of course. Just like Bloomberg.

[Eleanors38]

12. HyTek Deringer, but bulkier. ho-hum. nt