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As much as I like guns and concealed carry, I don't think this is a good idea:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/smartphone-shaped-gun-helps-owners-carry-occasion-article-1.2580536Wednesday, 30-Mar-16 02:06:57 UTC from web-
Wednesday, 30-Mar-16 02:07:30 UTC from web
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@metaltao I can see security staff or a cop minding his/her own business being a bit more jumpy at the sight of smartphones in general. I can see a bent cop who doesn't want an activist filming him/her shooting the person with a smartphone and claiming that he/she thought it was a gun. The CEO of that start up's excuse of a child seeing the gun he was carrying is fatuous, to put it mildly. He should have learned from the incident and simply worked to do a better job of concealing his gun in something like an "in the waistband" (IWB) holster.
Wednesday, 30-Mar-16 02:12:58 UTC from web-
@m14brony *Sigh* Some one was going to make it anyways I guess.
But, aye, the timing is just abhorred.
I mean, now there is like, some modest reason why a jumpy cop has for shooting at someone with a smart phone. It will terrify many...
Thank god there was only around 4,000 pre orders.Wednesday, 30-Mar-16 02:15:36 UTC from web-
@metaltao I will reiterate that the CEO of that start-up would have made things much better if he simply was more careful about keeping his conventional pistol concealed (I have been carrying for over five years, and as far as I can tell, no one has ever noticed; I even wear slightly oversized shirts to make sure the gun is concealed). That gun is only going to result in increased anxiety in a world where scores of millions of law abiding gun owners are already subject to unwarranted media scrutiny and vile attempts to restrict their access to firearms by various politicians. The dolt who recently blew part of his leg off by irresponsibly using Tannerite is bad enough as it is.
Wednesday, 30-Mar-16 02:21:48 UTC from web
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@m14brony The biggest problem with this is that it can't pacify a situation.
It looks like a phone and if you point that at a "bad guy" they won't know what the Potato Knishes you are doing.Wednesday, 30-Mar-16 02:11:52 UTC from web-
@metaltao For what that gun costs, one could get a subcompact like a Smith and Wesson M&P Shield (a 9mm variant of that gun is my secondary carry gun). The Shield is very easily concealed, it looks like a gun, and it has better capacity than that folding phone-type one (7+1/8+1 in 9mm or 6+1 or 7+1 in .40 S&W vs. the Ideal Carry's 2 rounds).
Wednesday, 30-Mar-16 02:16:46 UTC from web
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