'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

[MightyMouth]

Why are some people still getting killed by street sweepers in NYC? Mike, you're still making an ass of yourself.

[Freemeorkillme]

Then the lawyers and prosecuters have a field day piling on the cops who shot the dead crook "excessively". You can't win.

A curious perspective, though I haven't been able to substantiate it with fact *yet* in this state, a person shooting in self defense who discharges a large portion of the rounds from his magazine or, indeed emptying the magazine, causing a death is less likely to be charged with wrongful death/negligence by a prosecuting attorney than a self defense incident where the shooter shooting in self defense discharges a minority of rounds in his magazine causing a death.

Better emtpy it or go to jail!?! Sounds more like a beer challenge to me. Where's the sense in all this? Resting between my two ears yes, but what about the ...others.

[wardaddy]

LOL....you are on a roll tonight!

[MightyMouth]

That's the Tueller Drill that we do at LFI. Named for Sgt. Tueller of SLC PD ... at least, I think that I remember it was Salt Lake City. I sauntered ... seriously, with post-polio and fibromyalgia, I tend to fall if I try to run ... and took just over 7 seconds to cross that 21 feet. The usual time is 1.5 to 3 seconds.

[Shooter 2.5]

I thought of the possibility of a government contract but if the cartridge is primer activated, I don't see local or state governments getting involved with something that discharges.
Plus, I can't see people lining up and explaining what caliber they need or the government buying an assortment.
The town governments like the idea of spending Federal money and having long lines of people getting cable locks for their bikes and tool sheds. It looks good for the cameras.

[MightyMouth]

Okay, Stanley, we all know you have "a lawyer acquaintance." Sheesh.

[PatrioticAmerican]

"And finally, why should I trust the CDC as a source of firearms information?"

I like the other example of your statement: Trusting the American Medical Association to tell me about firearms is like asking the National Rifle Association about heart surgery.

[MightyMouth]

And *that* is why you keep shooting, and aim some of those shots at the pelvic area, to hit the part that keeps them moving. If you do enough damage to the spine, pelvis, etc., they will go down faster.

[MightyMouth]

YOU are now one of my heroes. MWAH!

[Freemeorkillme]

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.

So that was you repelling from the black helicopter.(KMOKM hastily loading black helicopter neighborhood warning paper signs back into car for reposting...)

[wardaddy]

Or if you prefer hand to hand. I used to fight full contact before # 2 in the world showed me why I was #3

I think the fellow in question needs to reduce his testosterone shots down a bit.

He doesn't understand that we FMCDH guys here on FR aren't big on fair fights. We just like to win...and prevail.

Shame he missed the dueling thread....where you threw cold water on all our fantasizing as I seem to recall...LOL.

He should head on over to Shooter.com or AR-15.com or Biggerhammer.net ...seriously.

What can we call this?....it's not exactly barrel stroking.

BTW, I consider myself a fairly brave fellow but should you challenge me to hand to hand, I'm probably going to shoot you in the back or bean you with the old locks in the sock while you sleep...if possible....nothing personal. As a layman of sorts, why would I wish to be a fool and fight someone with years of training straight up. There is no honour in getting your ass whipped if you can win by fighting dirty.

You guys decide to go at it....let's do pay for view..

This is too much.....maybe pistols at dawn after all...geez.

[MightyMouth]

Well ... um ... most likely the actual *killed* people won't be suing him. ;o)

[PatrioticAmerican]

Just some of the anti-gun liberal/commie organizations Mike is associated with:

Tallahassee Democrat    www.macon.com

Mothers Against Violence in America www.jointogether.org

Join together Online http://192.12.191.21/gv/news/summaries/  http://jtodirect.madd.org/gv/

The Center for Children & Young Adults, Inc. http://www.umbrellaweb.org/specialevents.htm

[wardaddy]

Homeo,

You have to be enjoying the hornest nest you have had going here the past few days.

You need to understand that some of these folks live, breath, and sleep weaponry.

And yet you confess that you do not even own a firearm.

Whether real or imagined....something is amiss in the picture you're painting for all of us here.

We're not a terribly gullible lot and some of these guys probably trust no one.

You go ahead with your venture but I can only see it being embraced by the gun grabbers at this juncture. That alone will not win you many friends here.

Respectfully......I'd chill on the challenging.

[Shooter 2.5]

"The usual time is 1.5 to 3 seconds.

Ouch! that's going to hurt. My average draw time from concealed going into the A zone is 1.8 and my son's 1.6.

It's difficult to wear just the right clothes with the same thickness of cloth or even the same starch to duplicate what was done the previous time.

I'm terrible sorry about the illness but I'm happy that it doesn't make you quit. Ayoob mentions the Teuller Drill quite a bit. Cooper's class never mentioned it that I'm aware of unless I missed it.

[wardaddy]

Clarification: you claim not to own a handgun.

[MightyMouth]

Ooh, what's my problem? How gallant. I just wondered why there was suddenly a big old post that had nothing to do with the thread. I thought that was considered a no-no in here. No?

[MightyMouth]

Dyeing? What are they dyeing, Easter eggs?

[PatrioticAmerican]

"If a guy can't remember if his gun is loaded should he even have one?"

You made my point against your device perfectly. Your device is a device that can be forgotten, and its purpose is to take over when the person forgot something else, such as leaving a loaded gun where a child can get to it? What is more important, keeping a child from the gun or remembering to keep the gun loaded with something that the child can also remove?

[Freemeorkillme]

One of the ladies that runs one of the Ammo companies that is going to build these for me can give you some feedback as to what she thinks of this. Her name is Terry Johnson you can reach her at 540-220-4519 ask her directly what she thinks.

ost #367 by you. Well, I just called "Terry Johnson" and the phone number you listed 540-220-4519 did indeed go straight to a voicemail for a "Terry Johnson". Left no VM myself, however, as I'd like to know which "Ammo" company she works for and why you'd solicit her on an internet forum with what really sounds like a personal voicemail box? Am I wrong here, SafetyBullet-Inventor? Clear this up.