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Let's Make A Gun That Looks Like A Mobile Phone
Kieren McCarthy
Absolutely no one can make sense of the United States' infatuation with firearms.
But that dichotomy between both arguing for extraordinary rights to carry guns and worrying intensely about being attacked by guns has rarely been as stark as the news that someone has developed a gun that looks like a mobile phone.
In a country that has seen countless people shot and killed for carry- ing all manner of not- guns because people thought that they were guns, it seems only logi- cal to develop a product that can cause people to fear literally everyone that they see all the time.
The genius that came up with this idea is one Kirk Kjellberg from Minnesota. He was "inspired" by the fear of a small child in a restau- rant.
Kjellberg was carrying his own gun-looking gun when a seven-year-old noticed it and ran off to tell his mom.
"He saw me, and said, 'Mommy, Mommy, that guy's got a gun,' and the whole restaurant, of course, turns and stares at you, and I thought there's just got to be something better to do than this," Kjellberg retells.
Bad choices Of course that "better thing" wasn't to not actu- ally carry a gun around in public, but rather to
figure out a way to have a gun but not clue peo- ple into the fact.
"It's more so for people that want to be able to carry a gun when they
need to and not have to engage other people about why they're carry- ing that gun," Kjellberg told the local KARE news channel, presum- ably to looks of incom-
prehensible horror.
The "Ideal Conceal" gun looks like a mobile phone and has the trig- ger closed up against the body of the gun
itself. It can then be pulled down to provide double-barrelled .380 relief to anyone troubled by the concept of not having a gun on their person every second of the day.
Its body is made of plas- tic with a metal mecha- nism at the heart of it. If there's any good news it's that it doesn't actually exist yet, although according to Kjellberg it will be available in October for a very rea- sonable $395 and he already has 4,000 orders for it through his website. Tagline: "Because the right of self-defense is the first law of nature."
It's just that kind of small business entrepreneur- ship that made America great. ®
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