November 29th, 2008
Italian Police arrest man with phone gun
.22 Caliber Phone Gun
These things have cropped up every once in a while for that past several years.
The stories always say the antenna is the barrel, but I’ve seen a video that shows pressing four buttons on the keypad each fires the bullet it is above. I’m thinking it’s more likely that each round has its own barrel (such as it is) an is really four single shots.
UPDATE: Here’s the video. Definitely not some sort of semi-auto:
A bar at the base of the “phone” cocks the weapon and four buttons fire the four rounds. More here.
