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2004-03-04 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by Secret Master 2004-03-04 3:55:09 PM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Not particularly cool. In the Philippines these pen guns have been made, generally as novelties, for at least 30 years. Sometimes street toughs used them, or tried to. I used to have one. Its just two brass tubes that screw together. One is the barrel. Unscrew them and you can insert a .22. There is a spring and striker in the other tube. The whole is machined to the shape of a pen.

The police generally classified them as "paltiks" - homemade guns.

Posted by buwaya 2004-3-4 5:48:39 PM|| 2004-3-4 5:48:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 A one shot weapon is really best for asassinations rather than hijacking. Adding the ricin angle in is good to add a terror twist among regular Americans.

Posted by Super Hose 2004-3-4 5:57:55 PM|| 2004-3-4 5:57:55 PM|| Front Page Top

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