Posted on 12/04/2008 7:51:26 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
You've heard of the Palm Pilot? Well, here's the Palm Pistol.
Constitution Arms, a small arms manufacturer based in Maplewood, N.J., is taking deposits for what it touts as the world's first ergonomically designed firearm.
Intended for use by the elderly and disabled, the single-shot 9-mm weapon looks like a giant bean grasped in the palm of the hand.
The barrel points out between the user's fingers. You "pull" the trigger by pressing on a thumbed button at the top.
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I was thinking even finer. Blanks are dangerous at contact distance (and have sometimes proven deadly) but they are 99.44% harmless beyond a few feet. The goal would be to have a shot mass that would be deadly if it struck the target while within the shock wave, but would quickly disperse once it had cleared the muzzle blast.
> I was thinking even finer. Blanks are dangerous at contact distance (and have sometimes proven deadly) but they are 99.44% harmless beyond a few feet. The goal would be to have a shot mass that would be deadly if it struck the target while within the shock wave, but would quickly disperse once it had cleared the muzzle blast.
What about rock salt? Driven hard enough close enough it would make a nasty wee wound — probably fatal if real close and against an artery. And even at a slightly more distant range (say 5 feet) it would smart mightily if it got under the skin/in the eyes.
All Granny probably needs is a loud noise and something that smarts mightily, long enough for her to scurry away and call the cops. If it proves lethal to the Perp, bonus points.
ATF opinion letters mean about jack squat.
Does it come in 500S&W Magnum?
Nothing new. I saw it’s first iteration over 30 years ago. Reportedly developed by the East German intelligence services as an assassin’s contact weapon. The model available at that time was activated like syringe. The two fingers wrapping the barrel pulled back on a sliding yoke which which acted like a double-action trigger mechanism. To fire, one simple simply squeezed the hand closed. Though not completely silent, it’s design was reportedly such that it could be employed at noisy parties, crowded railway stations or bus stops, and no one would react to the shot fired, provided the weapon’s muzzle was firmly pressed into to the intended target’s body.
A boon to geriatric gunners? More likely a bane. I’m old school. Anything lacking a trigger guard is an accident waiting to happen.
Heh... I had one of those, much to my sisters' lament. :-)
Thought it was the "Green Avenger", but I might be mis-remembering that.
Not far down banglist, there's a thread about a stacked-charge muzzle-loading handgun with a link to an antique firearms website. Somewhere on that site are photos of this contraption's ancestor - a black powder palm pistol. I guess that one also produced a smoke screen to ease the shooter's escape (hopefully to run for a better gun).
It will be interesting to see what happens down the road.
Don’t leave that anywhere near the Adriatic Sea, or it’ll be deemed an ancient Greek astronomical computer.
“Blanks are dangerous at contact distance.”
He then had to be written out of the script.
> Thought it was the “Green Avenger”, but I might be mis-remembering that.
No, I believe your memory is serving you true, and it is I who is mis-remembering. It was the “Green Avenger”, as you say.
> Not far down banglist, there’s a thread about a stacked-charge muzzle-loading handgun with a link to an antique firearms website. Somewhere on that site are photos of this contraption’s ancestor - a black powder palm pistol. I guess that one also produced a smoke screen to ease the shooter’s escape (hopefully to run for a better gun).
(big grin!!) I’m not so sure I’d be keen to fire one of those contraptions for fear of blowing my hand off!
Jon-Erik Hexum
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