'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]

Abundy,

I am not on line all day.

Mike

[SafetyBullet-Inventor]

Last buck I shot was 240 lbs field dressed. My ole man was a Darbys Ranger and he taught me a lot. We were not wealthy growing up and most of the meat on my table we shot.

Wanna try another insult? I can out hunt you and out shoot you with a rifle any day any time.

Mike Worley Inventor of the Safety Bullet

[SafetyBullet-Inventor]

Another insult.

You wanna play nice or do you wanna trade jabs? Once again let me say this, this is for homes that have a loaded gun and kids.

Got it?

Mike Worley Inventor of the Safety Bullet

[kildak]

Straight from the GOA website, Shooter.

"Let me reiterate, once more, my deep appreciation for the tremendous job being done by Gun Owners of America in the battle to defend America's right to keep and bear arms. There is no question that without GOA, American gun rights would be in even greater peril today."
Jesse Helms
U.S. Senator, North Carolina

"I hope you will work with Gun Owners of America to make sure that your voice is heard in Washington."
Lamar Smith
U.S. Congressman, Texas

"GOA was here in Mississsippi when we needed them. They are an oustanding defender of the right to keep and bear arms"
Ken Stribling
Mississippi State Representative

"GOA works very hard at keeping the public informed about many issues regarding gun control issues that would not otherwise be in the news."
Evan Marshall
Detroit Police Department

"GOA has been a strong, dependable ally in the struggle to defend America's gun rights. Gun Owners of America is uncompromising when it comes to Second Amendment rights issues."
Jim McClure
U.S. Senator (Ret.), Idaho

"It's been a long time since someone has been on the side of those who believe in the right to own a gun. I support GOA and urge all gun owners to join in their efforts."
John Milius
Producer, Movie "Red Dawn"

"Gun Owners has [an impact] on Capitol Hill. As a U.S. Congressman, I see, first hand, the tremendous influence GOA members wield when their letters and postcards begin landing on the desks of my colleagues."
Rep. Steve Stockman
July 1996

"Gun Owners of America led the fight in defeating the terrorism bill in 1995. They generated grassroots pressure that made it possible for us to hold tight and keep the bill from passing."
Rep. Joe Scarborough
September 1996

"Gun Owners of America has drafted language for a string of bills, most recently one to repeal all gun control laws, that have been introduced [in Congress]."
Roll Call
February 1996

"GOA has resisted the bipartisan effort here in Washington to federalize more and more crimes. Were it not for GOA and some other grassroots groups, we would have seen an even worse erosion in this area."
Rep. Joe Scarborough
October 1996

"Gun Owners have posted some success on Capitol Hill, chiefly by killing the anti-terrorism bill in the House last year."
Roll Call
February 1996

"The [terror bill] compromise unraveled as conservative House Republicans -- many of them freshmen -- backed the Gun Owners position and refused to follow Barr [the cosponsor of the bill]."
Roll Call
February 1996

"I believe that we can thank Larry Pratt of GOA for putting enough pressure on Congressman Barr that the offending provision [to increase the scope and authority of the BATF] was removed from H.R. 1488."
Brad Alpert, October 1995
in the Bullet,
official publication of
Western Missouri Shooters Alliance

[Poohbah]

Last buck I shot was 240 lbs field dressed.

As I've thought--you haven't been in a firefight. I have.

My ole man was a Darbys Ranger and he taught me a lot.

But he obviously didn't teach you the important stuff.

We were not wealthy growing up and most of the meat on my table we shot.

Deer don't shoot back now, do they?

Wanna try another insult?

No, you're doing a much better job of insulting yourself than I ever could.

I can out hunt you and out shoot you with a rifle any day any time.

Perhaps. But your invention makes it clear that you've never have faced the elephant.

[SafetyBullet-Inventor]

I don't know where you getting the let your kids play with you guns but its not something I said. Well maybe your kids>



Mike Worley Inventor of the Safety Bullet

[Jeff Head]

this is for homes that have loaded guns and kids. Got it?

Once again to you, I have loaded guns, I have kids, I have kids come by ... I now have grand kids.

I will never use one of your devices. My firearms are for the protection of my kids, my wifes and my life and our property. That is their principal use ... I do not want them to be safe ... Iw ant them to be understood, by my family, by their friends, and BY GOD BY THE PERPS WHO WOULD TAKE OUR LIVES. We also do some hunting.

My kids have been properly educated and trained all of their lives. Their friends have been informed and know the score at our home as do their paretns.

The same was true for my parents before me, and theirs before them. It is true for literally hundreds of people I know.

THAT, IMHO, is the answer. Education and training. I do not want to spend the extra time ejecting, take the chance of forgetting its in there or wonder about my weapon in that split second and critical time that I need to use it or die, or see one of my own die.

I pray that never happens. I have prepared myself and family on the chance it may. If a terrible accident ever occurred with one of my firearms, I would get solace from my God, just like if one of us were struck by lightning or hurt or injured in a wreck. Then I would move on and continue to educate and train.

Hope you "get it". Education and traiing are the key ... not something that renders the weapon impotent ... or "safe". It is not meant to be "safe", I do not ant anyone in my house, either bidden or unbidden to ever get the impression that they are "safe". It is an oxymoron.

You of course are free to pursue your avenue and your course. But I would never recommend any device that had the capability of rendering a firearm completely useless.

[Freemeorkillme]

Like I said, several hundred posts ago:

Great! My firearm just became a club! I already have an Easton!

I'm/fiancee am going to be the one with my weapon in hand. That's right. "Saved my A**" didn't you. The reason I'm hitting you so hard about this is that.....it will get people killed. When it comes to me and mine, that iron had better spit jacketed hollow points when I point her and pull the trigger. First time, all the time. What's the point in training at the range if I'm not going to do exactly what I train for when the time comes and without thought I need to reach for it and it becomes a rock?? That will get gullible buyers killed. You agree?

[SafetyBullet-Inventor]

Do the research find out who is getting accidentally shot then get back to me. I did my homework on this you need to do yours.

Mike Worley Inventor of the Safety Bullet

[Freemeorkillme]

Have you answered my question about the range at which most self-defense shoot occur??

[Redcloak]

You did your homework? GREAT! Then you must know the answer to this question: How quickly can one extract your device from a firearm? Can it be done in less time than it takes an intruder to cross your bedroom?

Are you ever, ever, EVER going to answer this question?

[SafetyBullet-Inventor]

I agree. Its not for cops its to keep cops from haveing to go investigate a dead kid killed by accidental shooting. I could not do that. The last thing I want to do is to make it any harder for anyone in law enforcement. If I thought that that is where this was going I would not have promoted them.

I have filed for the patent on this. Its MY idea. I have the ability to have them made or have them not made. If it gets to the point where someone is going to try and shove this down anyones throat I will stop them from being made.The company has to have my John Henry to make these.

You have my word on that.

Mike Worley Inventor of the Safety Bullet

[SafetyBullet-Inventor]

You can get the stats from the CDC web site.

Mike

[Freemeorkillme]

Thank You ! -- Your invention is truly a Godsend for all gunowners!

I've always longed for a perfectly safe way to allow all the neighborhood kids to play with my guns, and thanks to your ingenious concept, now I can !!

This was actually a sarcastic quote taken out of context. Crowcreek had directed at you, not I. My sides were splitting, btw. Good one, Crowcreek. Pretty funny, wasn't it?

[kildak]

And lets not forget the "21 foot rule".

[Poohbah]

Your patent only restricts this for thirteen years, after which time it's in the public domain. And all a patent does is give you a right to enforce your claim--governments have and do routinely violate patents, and get away with it.

And your "it's FOR THE CHILL-ILL-RUUUNNN" rhetoric is wearing thin.

[SafetyBullet-Inventor]

They thought it was a great idea.

Mike

[Shooter 2.5]

Thank you.
It took asking ten people to stop criticizing the NRA and just tell me what the GOA has done.
The point I'm trying to make and I feel like copying and pasting it, is that we have to keep together on this fight. The members of the GOA should just explain what they do without mentioning the NRA because the NRA members are quite happy belonging to the best there is. It's up to the other gun groups to expand their numbers so that every gun owner is an activist. If there were 80 million members, we wouldn't have gun control in this country.
Thanks again.

[Poohbah]

The Million Moronic Moms and Sarah Brady liked it, huh?

Well, guess what? Those people are persona non grated-cheese here at FR. You just keep digging yourself deeper...