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Surreptitious Weapon Looks Like A Cell Phone: New Airline Security Threat
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| June 27, 2002
Posted on 06/29/2002 5:18:30 AM PDT by TomGuy
Surreptitious Weapon Looks Like A Cell Phone
Guns Disguised As Cell Phones Pose New Airline Security Threat
POSTED: 4:33 p.m. EDT June 27, 2002
UPDATED: 2:35 p.m. EDT June 28, 2002
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Aviation security consultant Wayne Black finds many airport screeners don't know what they're doing.
"We are still playing catch-up, and will be playing catch-up [for some time]," Black said. "We are still not trained."
"I saw people with these little wands scanning the forehead of a bald man," Black continued. "You'll see them pull an 80-year-old lady in a wheelchair out of line and search her and scan her bare arms."
While screeners use special X-Ray machines for laptop computers, experts say cell phones get nothing but a visual inspection leaving security wide open for one thing that's new: A cell phone gun. "It's a cell phone loaded with four 22-caliber bullets," Black said. "Those things crank out of there at almost 100 feet per second."
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KEYWORDS: cellphone; gun; securitythreat; weapon
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posted on
06/29/2002 5:18:30 AM PDT
by
TomGuy
To: TomGuy
There's an old JAG [TV series] where three terrorists each bring in a piece of a gun - then assemble it on board.
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posted on
06/29/2002 5:34:26 AM PDT
by
The Raven
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To: TomGuy
Check it out at
Snopes complete with video.
To: GWELO
Anyone know Osama's number?
To: The Raven
Totally off topic, but I like JAG. It's the only TV show I watch on a consistent basis.
I like the fact that they use current events for story lines.
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posted on
06/29/2002 5:45:39 AM PDT
by
dawn53
To: TomGuy
100 feet per second? BB guns have a higher muzzle velocity than that. Major League pitchers have a higher muzzle velocity than that (both when they spit and when they throw). Think that's a typo maybe?
}:-)4
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posted on
06/29/2002 5:46:00 AM PDT
by
Moose4
To: TomGuy
"You'll see them pull an 80-year-old lady in a wheelchair out of line and search her and scan her bare arms."What? You never heard of the peel-n-stick fake hairy mole that shoots 22-caliber bullets?
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posted on
06/29/2002 5:47:38 AM PDT
by
Nubbin
To: Moose4
Agree. 10 ft/sec is about 66 MPH. Not enough to even leave a red mark.
To: det dweller too
OK fat finger time. 100 ft/sec ~ 66 MPH
To: Nubbin
I think they should focus on searching for terrorists and
instead of just looking for "objects."
Guns don't kill people, People kill people and all that.
To: TomGuy
The "cell phone gun" has been around at least 10 years !
It used to be a "pager gun".
To: det dweller too
Agree. 10 ft/sec is about 66 MPH. Not enough to even leave a red mark.
I believe a 22LR does break the sound barrier.. (part of the "crack!" you are hearing when you fire it) So, that's at least in the neighborhood of 700 mph, right?
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posted on
06/29/2002 6:10:02 AM PDT
by
Jhoffa_
To: Jhoffa_
Aguila, Super Max,.22 LR --------- 1750 fps
CCI, Stinger, .22 LR -------------- 1640 fps
CCI, Quik-Shok, .22 LR ---------- 1550 fps
Federal, Hyper Velocity, .22 LR --- 1550 fps
Remington, Viper, .22 LR1 -------- 1410 fps
Remington, Yellow Jacket, .22 LR - 1500 fps
To: Jhoffa_
I just saw the video.That cellphone looks and sounds real.
100ft per second? That had to be a typo.What I saw is more like 1000ft. per second.
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posted on
06/29/2002 6:32:25 AM PDT
by
painter
To: Jhoffa_
unless of course you use the much quieter, subsonic rounds.
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posted on
06/29/2002 6:35:34 AM PDT
by
wita
To: robertpaulsen
Now that's more like it..
Some of that muzzle blast is the bullet breaking the sound barrier.
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posted on
06/29/2002 6:37:08 AM PDT
by
Jhoffa_
To: robertpaulsen
A .22 short will go subsonic out of a handgun, but it would still probably be in the 500-600 fps range.
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posted on
06/29/2002 6:38:55 AM PDT
by
umgud
To: TomGuy
Aviation security consultant Wayne Black finds many airport screeners don't know what they're doing. No kidding. On Rush Limbaugh yesterday a flight attendant called in and told another story about screener ineptitude. She said that federal marshall took his gun on the plane, with a permit, but the screeners took away his nail clippers.
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posted on
06/29/2002 6:41:51 AM PDT
by
knuthom
To: Jhoffa_
And, PS..
Since you can hide the components for a small gun in just about anything if you really wanted to. (an electronic device with dense sheilding to help hide it from the screeners.. HELL, they can't even recognize a fully assembled gun 100% of the time!) I say this is just one more reason to arm our pilots..
And, hopefully it will be a slippery slope. With more and more people being armed and crime going down, down down..
You know, I was in the Carribean last year and on every street corner was a cop with a sawed off, pump action shorgun. I never felt safer.
You would see some guy kind of loitering in the shadows at night, leaning against a tree.. hanging out. Yep, it was an armed cop lying in wait. Real quiet, just waiting..
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posted on
06/29/2002 6:44:19 AM PDT
by
Jhoffa_
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