'Safety bullet' invention aims to prevent accidental shootings

News Herald ^ | Story filed: 11:52 Tuesday 30th July 2002 | Editorial Staff

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'Safety bullet' invention aims to prevent accidental shootings

A Florida man claims to have designed a safety bullet which locks up a gun when it's accidentally fired.

Mike Worley says his simple invention takes gun safety to another level.

He came up with the idea after a local boy was shot in his elbow while showing off his dad's .357 Magnum.

The safety bullet can be hidden in the gun chamber and ejected quickly if the owner needs to fire a live bullet.

If the safety bullet is fired, it jams the chamber and locks the gun until the shell is removed with a special tool.

The News Herald reports Mr Worley has applied for a patent for his invention.

He says several companies are interested in his design, and one has started making a prototype.

Mr Worley, from Panama City, says he supports the use of guns and understands why people need a loaded gun as protection.

He said: "I think the safety bullet is a step in the right direction. I don't want fame and fortune. This is a simple device that takes safety to the next level."

Story filed: 11:52 Tuesday 30th July 2002

[SafetyBullet-Inventor]

One of the things I have done is to talk to a lot of women about this. So far not one of them thinks its a bad idea. Several have loaded guns and kids because the were afraid for their lives. I am afraid for their kids. I have given a few some of my prototypes just to keep them safe. The first ones cost me $350.00 each but it was worth it knowing that it would keep their familys safe.

I have a daughter and could not imagine the hell any parent has to go through when their kids get killed by being accidentally shot. One of the sadest things I have ever heard was when a father accidentally shot his daughter. The last thing she said before she died was " I love you Dad".

I had to do something I had to try and this is what I came up with. DOesn't seem like to many people agree with me on this. I am catching hell from every side.

Mike Worley Inventor of the safety bullet

[SafetyBullet-Inventor]

You simply don't get it do you. Talk to your wife have her explain it to you or call the NRA they think its a great idea and they can explain it to you.

Mike Worley Inventor of the Safety Bullet

[Redcloak]

Speaking of speed, when are you going to answer my question?

[SafetyBullet-Inventor]

Don't suger coat it tell me straigt out what do you really think?

Last time someone insulted me as well as this he said I was to tall, to tan and to dam good looking. Personally I don't think I am to tall.

Let me see if I understand you. You say my product is crappy. When did you see it. When did you test it? When it worked as promised what was your reaction

Oh you didn;t see it you have no idea how it works or what it is yet your labeling it crappy.

Thank you. I now know what your all about and you call me an idiot!?

Mike Worley Inventor of the safety Bullet

[SafetyBullet-Inventor]

Good but not good enough. Unload the guns and store the ammo in a seperate place better yet lock it up. I can send you a thousand stories of kids that found a gun and killed somebody with it. Kids are curious and guns are a magnet to them.

Mike Worley Inventor of the Safety Bullet

[Jeff Head]

This is a rediculous notion. Something the soccer moms and gun grabbing advocates may drool over, but something that in practise will be dangerous when one is confronted with a real life or death situation requiring the use of the firearm.

Why wuold anyone buy or use something like this that would render their firearm inoperable. Might as well not have the firearm.

Clearly, education and training is the key ... but that is JUST the thing the gun grabbers do not want spread abroad because then every law abiding citizen's gun will be ready to use at a moments notice.

Scares the be-whillies out of those who want the guns removed and mystifies those untrained and unfamiliar with the real root issue of why firearms are so important in the first place.

This guys heart may be in the right place ... but the philosophy and the article are way off the mark IMHO.

Best to you.

[dighton]

Keep reading! The non-handgun owning inventor is here defending his gadget.

[Sloth]

Don't suger coat it tell me straigt out what do you really think?

Last time someone insulted me as well as this he said I was to tall, to tan and to dam good looking. Personally I don't think I am to tall.

Let me see if I understand you. You say my product is crappy. When did you see it. When did you test it? When it worked as promised what was your reaction

Oh you didn;t see it you have no idea how it works or what it is yet your labeling it crappy.

Thank you. I now know what your all about and you call me an idiot!?

Well, I think the illiteracy charge is pretty well substantiated, and I noted only the spelling errors above, not grammar.

Second, your product is crappy regardless of test results because it has a crappy effect -- it renders a gun useless. You have adequately explained its function -- it's just a bad function. It is much less desireable than simply (for example) leaving an empty chamber on a revolver, using a dummy bullet with no powder charge, or (as someone brilliantly suggested) using a loud blank instead.

By the way, I don't believe I called you an idiot, but that was clearly an oversight on my part, so I apologize.

[Jeff Head]

He's moving down through the posts ... still a hundred away from your reply.

He has a lot to wade through and if he listens, if he takes a moment to comprehend WHY PEOPLE OWN FIREARMS IN THE FIRST PLACE he may figure it out. He really thinks its just sort of a sport and a dangerous one that some device like this will render safe.

He doesn't understand that most of us have guns to use them to defend ourselfves, our property and our families with deadly force and would never think of applying any kind of device that may render them incapable of performing that deadly function in the, God forbid, event they are needed for just that.

So many don't know/have forgotten/were never taught what it means to be free men and women. I pray that we can educate more and more in the art ... starting with defending themselves!

[Travis McGee]

WAY off the mark indeed.

[Jeff Head]

See my 229 to Sloth.

[Travis McGee]

Well, I think the illiteracy charge is pretty well substantiated, and I noted only the spelling errors above, not grammar.

I was being nice and holding my fire on that target rich environment. Sure sign of a sloppy mind.

[Redcloak]

Actually, a blank can cause injuries. There was a Hollywood actor who was clowning around on the set some years ago with a .44 magnum revolver. He put it to his head and fired the blank he knew was loaded in the chamber. The wadding slammed into his skull at roughly 1500 fps and left him at room temperature. Why did he do this? Because he thought that the device loaded into the gun made it harmless. Sound familiar?

[dighton]

Right, that was Jon-Erik Hexum.

[Flyer]

I am still waiting for the apology you owe me at post # 157.

And, I think many of us are waiting for the answer to the question in post #162, "What did the folks at Million Mom March and The Brady Center think of your invention?"

[Shooter 2.5]

Thanks for the name of the actor. I still can't remember the show title.
The interesting thing about the actor was that all through the show, the kid was the brains because Hexum was portrayed as being a few ants short of a picnic. Then he put a mag to his head and pulls the trigger. It looks like casting knew better than everyone else.

[Jeff Head]

Now you're nailing some issues with that post that are perhaps the most enlightning regarding the entire concept.

[Charles Martel]

Right, that was Jon-Erik Hexum.

Yeah, that's the guy. I was thinking of Brandon Lee, but I think he was felled by a "prop" revolver that was loaded with live ammo.

[Dan from Michigan]

So lets see if I have this right you would let your kids go in the backyard with a loaded gun and let them play with it?

RIIIIIGHT....

Does your family tree by any chance go straight up?
Nope. That would be one way to clean up the gene pool.
That's why I don't put foreign products in my gun...I don't plan on winning a Darwin award.

The whole idea of this is to keep kids from killing each other
No. It's to make money.

and Dan it works.

I have a better solution. It is one that's been in use for hundreds of years. Training and education.

I can think of nothing more nobel than to make our guns safe and to protect our kids. That is what I am all about. If you want to dig that than that tells me who you are.

I'll dig those that always TALK about saving kids as a cover for their products.

This is the best safety device yet. It will save thousands of lives.
Not as much as training.

[Flyer]

SBI is almost causing me to think he is a gun control mole, here to collect quotes from "gun nuts" that are against gun safety. Not probable. . . but possible.