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NYPD warns on cell phone guns
Washington Times ^ | 5-18-06 | UPI

Posted on 05/18/2006 11:23:43 AM PDT by JZelle

The New York Police Department has issued a warning to officers to watch for secret .22-caliber guns that look like cell phones. The May 11 order by Commissioner Ray Kelly is only a warning since none have been found in the United States, the New York Post reports, but law enforcement in Europe have found stockpiles in the Netherlands and Slovenia and arrested carriers throughout the continent. The gun, heavier than a cell phone, uses the fake cell phone's

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; cellgun; cellphonegun; phonegun
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Guess they'll have to ban cell phones now. ;)
1 posted on 05/18/2006 11:23:45 AM PDT by JZelle
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NYPD warns on cell phone guns

Mods are very strict about title threads.

2 posted on 05/18/2006 11:25:08 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (FR's most controversial FReeper)
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To: JZelle

What does the title have to do with the story!?


3 posted on 05/18/2006 11:30:11 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Support American sovereignty - boycott employers of illegal aliens)
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To: admin

Sorry about the title, it should be:
"NYPD warns on cell phone guns"


4 posted on 05/18/2006 11:31:33 AM PDT by JZelle
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5 posted on 05/18/2006 11:31:57 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (A Moose Once Bit my Sister. Yeah. She Turned Moose-lim.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Ooh, I want one!


6 posted on 05/18/2006 11:33:53 AM PDT by Crystal23
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To: JZelle

Darn it!

I'm always locked into a two-year contract when they come out with the latest models.

Does Verizon or Cingular have an exclusive on these?


7 posted on 05/18/2006 11:39:06 AM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: Crystal23
Ooh, I want one!

Me too!

8 posted on 05/18/2006 11:39:15 AM PDT by bobbyd (Damn, I've been tagged.....)
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To: JZelle

This was the reason for shooting Amadou Diallo because the NYPD thought Amadou Diallo wallet was a gun!
http://www.internationalist.org/NYPDdeathsquad.html


9 posted on 05/18/2006 11:39:36 AM PDT by restornu (Elevate Your Thoughts!)
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To: Crystal23

"Can you hear me now?" "Can you hear (bang!!!)


10 posted on 05/18/2006 11:39:42 AM PDT by JJR RNCH (Your mother doesn't work here!! Clean up after YOURSELF.)
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To: JZelle
I'll snicker the first time some clown makes one in .50 BMG.




Then I'll buy it.

11 posted on 05/18/2006 11:40:07 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: bobbyd
Hi, I'd like to purchase a cell phone, please.

Certainly, sir. What caliber would you like?


12 posted on 05/18/2006 11:41:52 AM PDT by LIConFem (A fronte praecipitium, a tergo lupi.)
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To: PBRSTREETGANG

Try T-Mobile.
They have a new 'rounds per minute promotion'.


13 posted on 05/18/2006 11:45:30 AM PDT by Westlander (Unleash the Neutron Bomb)
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To: JZelle

"Can you hear me, NOW! mother****er!!!"


14 posted on 05/18/2006 11:46:18 AM PDT by HEY4QDEMS (Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.)
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To: HEY4QDEMS

LOL


15 posted on 05/18/2006 11:48:10 AM PDT by Hydroshock
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To: JZelle

The question is whether NYC drivers will be able to drive and talk on their handguns.


16 posted on 05/18/2006 11:49:17 AM PDT by Rome2000 (Peace is not an option)
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"Guess they'll have to ban cell phones now."

Yep. They will join the other banned things like flame thorwing perfume bottles and eyebrow pencil poison needle injectors and of course the knockout gas ballpoint pen.

'"I'm Bond...James Bond."


17 posted on 05/18/2006 11:52:12 AM PDT by Leg Olam ("There is no Hell. There is only France." F. Zappa)
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To: JZelle

I'm way too big of a flake to own one of these. Probably shoot myself in the head on day one.


18 posted on 05/18/2006 11:58:18 AM PDT by cobaltblu
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or just be a nice guy and buy the ex-wife a cell phone :)


19 posted on 05/18/2006 11:59:24 AM PDT by Rakkasan1 (lead ,follow or get out of the majority.start with our borders.)
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To: Rome2000

"The question is whether NYC drivers will be able to drive and talk on their handguns."

Great idea, I don't think it would be hard to incorporate a sliver into a grip panel of a Colt 1911.


20 posted on 05/18/2006 12:03:46 PM PDT by BadAndy ("Loud mouth internet Rambo")
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