French police seize mobile phone guns (airports safety is a joke with this gun)

Reuters ^ | 02/07/03 | Reuters

[A Patriot Son]

The phones featured a four-chamber secret compartment for 22 caliber bullets that can be shot out of the fake antenna.

French police seize mobile phone guns

Weapons believed to be made in Eastern Europe

ROUEN, France, Feb. 7 — French police said Friday they had seized two lethal mobile phones capable of shooting four bullets, with the digital touchpads used as triggers.

The black phones, identical to normal mobile phones on the outside, were discovered in a raid on a suspected criminal’s home Tuesday in the northern city of Rouen.

The deadly phones come apart in the middle to reveal a four-chamber compartment for .22 caliber bullets, which can be shot out of a protruding fake antenna.

“These would be lethal at 10 meters (yards),” said Michel Lavaud, head of a local police brigade.

Police seized the telephones along with 1,000 ecstasy pills, heroin, cannabis and $25,000 in cash at the home of a man suspected of armed robberies and drug trafficking.

Lavaud said police thought the weapons were of a kind believed to be made in Eastern Europe and to have appeared in Belgium and the Netherlands in 2001.

[demosthenes the elder]

hrmn...
general interest ping

[RS]

Old news... but a new report
Saw these about a year ago on FR They will show as guns on an xray and ( unless they upgraded) will not beep or "come alive" to show security that they are xellphones -

Kind of like the dummy binoculars to sneak booze into football games.

[Texas Eagle]

French police said Friday they had seized two lethal mobile phones capable of shooting four bullets, with the digital touchpads used as triggers. Police seized the telephones along with 1,000 ecstasy pills, heroin, cannabis and $25,000 in cash at the home of a man suspected of armed robberies and drug trafficking.

Did that group of Inspectors Closeau happen to notice that they also seized a real gun?

[PianoMan]

No match for my cell phone, which shoots deadly tumor-causing radiation at any target within 50 feet.

[.45MAN]

Ping

[NMFXSTC]

I've seen an Mpeg of these things, but...wouldn't the .22 cal rounds show on Xray?

[Longlines]

No, the scanners at the airports would be set to low to catch .22 shells. Just four would probably get through, look like something else. No, the scanners at the airports would be set to low to catch .22 shells. Just four would probably get through, look like something else.

[dansangel]

"Sci-fi" is now a reality. We need to get with the program!

[Kay Soze]

So what?

France remains un convinced of the danger... until they smoke.