Posted on 04/07/2014 3:26:42 PM PDT by moonshinner_09
LEE COUNTY, Fla. - Have you ever heard of a cell-phone gun?
It's one of the reasons Lee County Sheriff Mike Scott says his deputies were justified in snatching a Fort Myers man's cell phone.
The man was using it to record deputies searching his car.
But no one 4 In Your Corner asked -- from local fire arms experts to other police departments and even federal agencies -- seemed that concerned about the theat of cell phone guns as expressed by Sheriff Scott.
"He wasn't doing anything to threaten the officer, and he wasn't doing anything to interfere with their investigation," said the man's attorney Dave Shestokas.
Sheriff Scott disagrees, telling 4 In Your Corner in an email Monday: "The probable cause traffic stop, K-9 alert, presence of a firearm, and [the man's] lack of candor created a scenario where the potential for him to summon others to the scene via his cell phone was an officer safety concern."
Sheriff Scott went on to say: "It is a well documented fact that pagers, cell phones, and other commonly carried devices have in fact proven to be firearms."
In an effort to back up his claim. the sheriff sent Fox 4 a link to a video of a purported cell-phone gun being fired.
It was posted in 2007.
In the nearly 15 years since federal agencies first heard the devices were discovered in Europe, firearms experts tell Fox 4 cell-phone guns aren't easy to come by.
(Excerpt) Read more at fox4now.com ...
He saw a YouTube video. There’s a lotta s4!# on YouTube for this idiot to lay awake at nights worrying about.
Barney Fife would be right on top of this.
Hey Sheriff Scott, your deputies didn’t happen to suck the data off of the seized phone, now did they?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPpGhdqpfzg&feature=player_embedded
This is not about firearms. This is about dirty cops fearing accountability.
You know how some cops like to tell us plebes that “if you’re doing nothing wrong then you have nothing to fear”?
Well, the bad cops fear cameras far more than they fear so-called ‘cell-phone-guns’.
***I want a gun in my belt buckle...***
You used to be able to get one of them from a cereal company back in the 1950s.
You can find one here.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/166757630/mattel-toy-belt-buckle-gun
Now, remove the toy and replace it with a real gun.
I don’t think we can count on the police or the military to do the right thing, anymore. In order to keep their jobs and their benefits, they will do their paymaster’s bidding..God help us..
Stolen from the Ursula Andress movie THE TENTH VICTIM. She did it first!
Lee County Sheriff Mike Scott, AKA ignoramus.
I’d say AKA Nazi SS.
Don’t ever believe that cops are on the side of the people. To them we’re all guilty of something.
Lack of candor can be translated as refusing to answer questions in accordance with his constitutional rights. that was part of the justification.
If you look at the pcitures and supposed videos of the supposed “gun” cell phones they are incapable of being the multi round weapons described. It looks very much like a hoax that grew legs.
Yes, I believe you are right. People keep asking will the military and police fire on American civilians. We already know the answer to that. It was Waco, and that was before the military purges. What has always puzzled me about Waco, is that a bunch of minorities were killed there. Where were the professional race hustlers when that happened?
What color is the sky in the Sheriff's world? Jonty, I like that, and if you don't mind, I will use it again :-)
Interesting.
I want a finger gun, Maxwell Smart was devastating with one!
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