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'Safety bullet' invention aims to prevent accidental shootings
News Herald ^ | Story filed: 11:52 Tuesday 30th July 2002 | Editorial Staff

Posted on 08/01/2002 7:11:52 PM PDT by vannrox

'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


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Florida
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To: SafetyBullet-Inventor
Be like Homer Simpson did you see the episode where he brought a gun home.

So, do you often rely on the Simpsons for inspiration?

Better to rely on training than to have to try to extract a dummy round from a weapon in the dead of night.

581 posted on 09/07/2002 5:45:51 PM PDT by Tennessee_Bob
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To: vannrox

is this Safety Bullet related to the Safety Dance?

582 posted on 09/07/2002 5:51:32 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch
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To: Travis McGee; SafetyBullet-Inventor
Then their survivors will sue "Mike Worley, Inventor of the Safety Bullet".

Yes, I was thinking the same thing. He's going to need a 'LLoyds of London' size product liability insurance policy.

583 posted on 09/07/2002 5:53:01 PM PDT by CWRWinger
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To: vannrox
Anyone remember Joycelyn Elders call for us to produce "Safer Guns & Safer Bullets"?
584 posted on 09/07/2002 5:56:41 PM PDT by Wondervixen
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To: vannrox
When I first started reading this thread, I thought it was an infomercial or a spoof. An infomercial would have been pulled by now. So this may be one of the longest running spoofs on FR next to....well never mind.
585 posted on 09/07/2002 5:57:49 PM PDT by CWRWinger
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To: Travis McGee
I think we have found the problem: too many kicks to the head.

I understand you SEALS tend to be pretty reasonable shots. :o)

I don't think the man was doing anything more than the Internet Strut we have all learned to love, but please don't go track him down, rappel down a helicoptor rope, and, using your integrated night vision headgear and thermal-image suppressing BDUs, ice him at 3:00AM with a silenced Sig Sauer P226.

Like you did that other guy.

586 posted on 09/07/2002 5:58:51 PM PDT by Lazamataz
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To: SafetyBullet-Inventor
Just curious, Mike - did you get any funding from these folks: http://www.jointogether.org/plugin.jtml?siteID=MAVIA&P=1
587 posted on 09/07/2002 6:09:11 PM PDT by Tennessee_Bob
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To: Lazamataz
Those are all lies.
588 posted on 09/07/2002 6:13:36 PM PDT by Travis McGee
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To: CWRWinger
I left this thread to go bikeriding and I had a little time to think of the customers who would buy this item.
The answer is no one.
Anyone buying a trigger lock has only one thing on their mind and that is to keep it out of the hands of their relatives, young and old because trigger locks are useless against thieves.
The people who buy trigger locks are worried that someone in their family will do something stupid with their guns and that means they don't know how to teach their relatives not to do something stupid.
That leaves a group of people who want to take the easy way out and not teach their relatives so that also means that they need something familiar and easy to use and that means something with a key and lock. Something which is familiar to them. These people are not familiar with strange bullets that are single use, single application and need a special tool to remove. This group also will not use a special tool inside their firearm no more than they would attempt to do a trigger job.
They also will not use a product that will have a warning on it such as:

WARNING! USE OF THIS PRODUCT IN A SELF-DEFENSE CRISIS MAY LEAD TO INJURY OR DEATH!

I can name trigger locks, lock boxes, CAUTION, LOADED GUN sleeves, fake books, fake pictures on the wall, safes, and simply leaving the ammo in a different spot which are all better, safer and cheaper than this product. There isn't a group that can benefit from this item.
No one.
589 posted on 09/07/2002 6:32:36 PM PDT by Shooter 2.5
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To: Travis McGee
Those are all lies.

Relax.

The judge said your record is sealed.

Pardon that pun.

590 posted on 09/07/2002 6:45:47 PM PDT by Lazamataz
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To: Shooter 2.5
I'm not sure why it is that you wish to take this confrontational tone with me, dear, but let's get it out right now that nobody OWES you an answer about a damn thing. I personally have not heard "the GOA" (who, exactly, is that?) complain about the NRA. I'm a member of both, and - as I said earlier - an NRA Instructor. GOA does an in-depth survey of political candidates, at least here in New Hampshire, and is at every one of the public hearings before various legislative committees that I have testified to, standing up for gun owner rights. You know what else? I'm a member of JPFO, PP, GO-NH, and a state coordinator - among other things - with the Second Amendment Sisters.

*I* spend a good deal of my money, and about 80 hours a week of my time, working for gun rights. Do you seriously think that I would back a group that didn't DO something?

It sure looks to me like all you're doing is to complain about the GOA, and apparently feel justified in bitching about what people do with their own money. WHAT, exactly, is it that YOU do to further gun rights besides sit in here and badmouth the GOA and pontificate about everybody else? You started it, so I guess now it's your turn.

591 posted on 09/07/2002 7:58:11 PM PDT by MightyMouth
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To: SafetyBullet-Inventor
My gun was neither in a safe, nor locked. We don't lock the guns up in the safe unless we're all going to be gone. And, btw, we're carrying, then. I have never locked up my guns to keep them from my children, nor did my parents or grandparents lock theirs up.

See, you're depending on a "device," which is always the path the tragedy. Child-proof caps are a "device," the safey on a gun is a "device," and devices can fail. No device -- TRAINING. PARENTING. RESPONSIBILITY. COMMON SENSE. Without those, no device in the world is safe.

592 posted on 09/07/2002 8:03:54 PM PDT by MightyMouth
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To: Crowcreek; Travis McGee; Flyer; Shooter 2.5; humblegunner; Eagle Eye; Squantos; ...
Aw well, at least you haven't been sporting the ferrous cerebrum this entire post! LoL!

"Safety-Bullet: When you're all about the feel and not about the real."

593 posted on 09/07/2002 8:07:07 PM PDT by Freemeorkillme
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To: SafetyBullet-Inventor
I cannot believe that you are equating criticism with being attacked physically. You are not that stupid, so I have to assume that you think I am.

Why do you keep bringing up safes and locks? They're just as ridiculous, from a safety standpoint, as your silly gun-jamming bullet. You don't own handguns, right? You have no idea what you would do if you were attacked, so quit trying to tell people who HAVE been through it what they would/should/could do. It makes you look like an ass.

No, but I did get control of him and hold him for the police. When someone is dragging you by the hair, it's hard to get a bead on them because you can't see them. He believed that I *would* shoot him, which I would have, once I could see him, except that he had stopped and surrendered. Tell me, with your gun-jamming bullet in my gun, HOW would I have ejected it one-handed while being dragged?

When your bullet is responsible for deaths, injuries, rapes, and other tragedies, I hope that your conscience and your insurance company both stay with you.

594 posted on 09/07/2002 8:09:07 PM PDT by MightyMouth
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To: SafetyBullet-Inventor
Since there is no such thing as "accidental shootings," your statistics are crap.

I know someone who was cleaning a rifle when it went off. That wasn't an accident, it was willful negligence and stupidity. The people who would do that wouldn't bother with your bullet, either.

595 posted on 09/07/2002 8:12:10 PM PDT by MightyMouth
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To: SafetyBullet-Inventor
"Well maybe your kids"... [letting them play with guns]

Yeah, you're a grand guy, huh?

596 posted on 09/07/2002 8:15:09 PM PDT by MightyMouth
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To: Shooter 2.5
The answer is no one..

Good evening, 2.5. May suggest this guy may have one customer in mind? The government (any or all levels). They might buy it or pass a law requiring handgun owners to buy it. That is the scary part of these inventions.

To a power grabber, this invention may be a ticket to tyranny.

they don't know how to teach their relatives not to do something stupid.

This is exactly right. People are afraid to 'offend' others by talking straight to them and instructing them.

I have not read the whole thread, but 'Safety-Inventor' here isn't AlGore in disguise is he? I wonder if this guy voted for klintoon?

597 posted on 09/07/2002 8:15:35 PM PDT by CWRWinger
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To: CWRWinger
Yes, the article read much like the Onion. Simply astounding the blatant "criminal" negligence of these inventions.---i quote "criminal" as I do know of a case where the inventor of safety item received a negative judgement against him as a result of a "safety" device---

It not go boom, me rest in tomb. (KMOKM dragging lower digit knuckles across keyboard)
598 posted on 09/07/2002 8:18:51 PM PDT by Freemeorkillme
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To: MightyMouth
"I'm not sure why it is that you wish to take this confrontational tone with me, dear, but let's get it out right now that nobody OWES you an answer about a damn thing. I personally have not heard "the GOA" (who, exactly, is that?) complain about the NRA. I'm a member of both, and - as I said earlier - an NRA Instructor.

It was confrontational and it was meant to be. Perhaps not to you personally but what I want is answers to why the GOA members are systematically complaining about what the NRA does or does not do without explaining what they themselves do. I have asked ten people. That means that I have read more than ten GOA members complaining about the NRA.

This happens about once or twice a month on this board where I have posted my question to the GOA members. This has never happened with SAS, SAF, or Citizen's Committee members. It's only with the GOA. I want to know why the GOA is openly causing division between the two groups.

Keepandbeararms.com is one website that bashes the NRA and they have a link to the GOA. I'm wondering if this started at that web site.

I'm going to repeat myself when I say that this behavior should stop for the good of the groups.
The next time someone starts the same old BS about the NRA, I'll ping you.

599 posted on 09/07/2002 8:20:18 PM PDT by Shooter 2.5
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To: SafetyBullet-Inventor
I have answered you, as have others, repeatedly. I do not promote locks, I promote training.

It's so cute how you ask a question, then answer it with what you want to hear.

Yes, children who are trained to shoot DO listen to you. If you are talking about 1-4 year old children, keeping the gun out of their reach is a real good idea, and not that difficult. My children both learned about the gun before they were 5, and learned to shoot it at 5, as did I and my siblings. At 5 years old, my father was often bringing home meat for dinner, and it was often all they had to eat while my grandfather was out installing electric lines all over the midwest.

Why do you suppose that enough children survived the early times in American for us to be here now? With guns hanging over fireplaces, then later available at Sears, the hardware store, and my (other) grandaddy's drugstore, why do you suppose there wasn't blood running in the streets? Lots of people had a rifle in the trunk, at school. No gun locks, very few gun safes, no silly gun-jamming bullets ... and gee whiz, Batman, we survived it.

Now, YOU 'splain that, Lucy, or get on MY side.

600 posted on 09/07/2002 8:25:29 PM PDT by MightyMouth
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