A New Gun in Town

Get real…..It seems the only real damage is to put an eye out, if you can take the time to aim and be a marksman. I think the same can be accomplished by using an ice pick. Apparently a body shot would be like a bee sting. So here we go again with the media panic. Enter the gun control wackos proclaiming there’s another dangerous weapon in the hands of criminals.

I think I’m gunna buy 50 of these, and go on a bank robbin spree. Cause 50 is more menacin than just 1, plus, think of how many eyes I could put out at once.

Looks like a new assault weapon to me.
This article looks like a Brady bunch press release.

I Can’t believe i wasted my time reading this

Please don’t let the TSA know about this or the security checkpoints at airports will come to a standstill. I’m sure you could slip one of these through the metal detector setting it off.

It’s all fun & games untill someone gets an eye put out!

What about those four ominous fingers? They’ve got a diabolical look about them.

The more closed-minded will go off on political rants to serve and protect their positions but this is really more about a comment on the sad state of the world when the efforts to miniaturize a “100% Swiss made” anything, produces a weapon of any type. Having been in the field of ophthalmology for over 25 years, I can only say, it’s easy fodder to make jokes about losing an eye – as long as it’s not yours. The manufacturer should be ashamed of their contribution to the perils faced by our police, children and society as a whole.

The price of gas is zooming past the national minimum wage, the mideast is in full blown turmoil, we have global warming, hurricanes approaching, and a zillion other topics and you guys call this news? I’ll never visit this site again.

Oh my. Where is Moore and Sauros. They ought to be all over this one. Head line their anti-gun agenda with the UN. Ya know, doesn’t anyone have anything better to do. Let’s concentrate on the actual terrosists in this country and eliminate them. Though that little gun might look useful enough to hijack a plane or blow up a building. Let’s put an all alert PBB out to look for these and spend enormous amounts of money on search and seizure. To heck with our energy crisis and $4.00 a gallon gas. I think that might be the least of my worries.

Some readers here have a right-wing trigger finger. Nothing in this article is alarmist or seeks to elect a liberal, or calls for banning. Get off your Rush Limbaugh rope-a-dope and read the articles for what they say, not that filtered old, “liberal agenda” mess you could pull out of a box of Wheaties.
You’re hatred for a different view than your own has robbed you of another chance to read an article for what it is, not what you can find in it.
Get off the O’Reilly koolaid!

Ask a blind person what their eyesight would be worth.

Any reporter worth his salt would have included the caliber and ballistics on this laughable piece of “gunnery,” which is probably the equivalent of a gnat flying in your eye!

It is a shame that they didn’t mention who the manufacturer was. But a quick search of the internet would lead you to swissminigun.com. On their site, they state it’s 2.34mm caliber.

Ralphie should have asked for one of these instead of a Red Ryder.

Nice toy and probably a nifty little collectable. I can understand the general warning to law enforcement officers – it’s an officer safety issue – but to warn the general public?? Stop the presses?! Right!

So it’s a toy. Too small to break skin..but it can poke your eye out. This sounds like the stuff my mother warned me about.

read this, look at the weapons

Does anyone realise that a cheap plastic squirt gun can be loaded with chemicals from bleach and amonia to some serious acids as well as biological agents AND still pass through metal dectors and most canine units undetected???????? Get real this thing is just a nuisance, you’ve already given the manufactor and the paranoids too much ink!

Anybody remember the movie “A Christmas Story”? Must be a minature version of the Red Ryder Rifle that he tried to shoot his eye out with. Where’s my mom when I need her, I can just hear her saying, “Be careful or you’ll shoot your eye out…..”

You have more than your share of realists responding to this mini-gun article. They’re right, Brian Ross has again posted nonsense. But then, you keep him on the payroll, and sometimes I wonder where his real loyalty is except to himself. Being anti-everything is not a real lift for the country or your readership.

The speed of this ammo is 426.5 f/sec, you can find paintball guns that can shoot this fast. A gun does not kill people, people kill people..

You guys are missing the point. The manufacturer didn’t need to make it fire for it to be a work of art. It looks like a toy and could be very attractive to a 3 or 4 year old. Putting out an eye is doing harm — serious harm. But we don’t want to place any control on weapons like this, ’cause it’ll make a great hunting weapon — good for shooting ants.

do they have armour pearcing rounds available?

Maybe I can use this gun to shoot out the eyes of the people thats controling and profiting off the oil prices. Instead of this gun, worry about the oil situation.

Could this be the weapons of mass destruction we were looking for? It’s a wonder we couldn’t find them!

Finally a gun specially made for midgets.

“The manufacturer didn’t need to make it fire for it to be a work of art.”
Yes it did!
What art is there when there are already a million other non-firing toys, mini or not? It’s a collector piece because of its small size PLUS working firing mechanism.

Nice peice Brian…I will buy ten of these son-to-be collectibles. Too bad you did not include enough detail to define this as an INVESTIGATIVE report.
As far as being a threat…c’mon!Does ABC really want to keep Mr. Ross on the payroll…?? Who is his producer?

Tarzan you hit the nail on the head!
It’s all fun & games until someone gets an eye put out!
LOL!

I know it for a fact England was or may have outlawed sharp pointed kitchen knives of a certain length, claiming a danger to society. Seriously.

they also make an ICBM on a keychain that has a range of over ten feet and can cause multiple pinpricks. Saddam Huessein and his cabinet hid their WMD this way! They might have even sprung for the chemical warheads that cause a fit of three or four sneezes!

I for one, fear these new guns.

Out here in the country I need one to hunt cockroaches and crickets that invade my house.
Please include the purchase price and where available next time you run a stupid article like this one. At least that much info would be useful.

It could kill if it’s owner were smart enough to have the target swollow it!

First, the Swiss Army knife (a miniature sword), now the Swiss Army gun.
“neutral nation” my foot…
When they make the Swiss Army nuke, then I’ll be worried.

im sure its so dangerous that little timmy gets to do a stickup and shoots some kids when the gun itself couldnt peirce the skin

Finally the Swiss have entered the arms race. For midgets. . .

HA! I saw thiw earlier, and actually considered buying one, but it was too expensive. people are asking why even make one at all, or why it has to fire to be a piece of art. It is made by swiss watchmakers to show off thier craftsmanship. It fires miniscule ammunition that you can only buy from them. People are worried that a kid will get ahold of it, because thye will be attracted to it because it looks like a toy. Guess what, it’s extremely rare, handmade, and costs over $1000 dollars. You can get one made of gold and encrusted with jewels if you want.

Doesn’t everyone see that this is part of a plot to arm all of the squirrels and large rodents. Think of the havock they could wreak if fully armed. The city parks would become animal terrorist havens and none of us would be safe.
I’m sure President Bush has something to do with this……………….

In response to the “opthamologist”. Well I am real and I did lose one eye. That was caused by someone driving a car and not watching where they were going.
Do you drive?
We better stop the production of any cars as soon as possible because someone else could lose an eye.
Get real.

Cool, I can now claim to possess bullet-proof eyelids.
Watch out Evildoers!!! Stop or I’ll squint!
Seriously though, perhaps the justice-after-the-fact crowd will cave in and recommend this as a politicaly correct way for a 90lb woman to deter an early-paroled 250lb rapist.

“Posted by: me first | Aug 7, 2006 1:43:05 PM
Ask a blind person what their eyesight would be worth.”
I don’t know how to type in braille.

I can’t wait to see the media frenzy when someone uses this thing to rob an idiot ophthalmologist by threatening to shot him/her in the eye with it. Makes a good argument for tossing the old contacts in favor of glasses.

Most of the info I’ve found indicates that they cost about $5000 each and the ammo is $10 per bullet. I’m not worried about little Timmy or Sally getting one.

Cool! I want one, or two…then I could duel…

I think the Baltimore police department should immediately invest in glasses. After all, there is a distinct possibility that these evil guns will be used in drive by shootings.
If it is made akin to a Python it will only have 6 shots. Thank god it is not magazine fed. After all, it is the 7th shot that is really deadly (or just painful).
Congress should immediately investigate. I want oversight. I want a new law… we will call it the MAWB. The micro assault weapons ban. Time to tune up the metal detectors, invest in rubber gloves for body cavity searches. This madness of micro dust shooting guns has got to stop. Our children’s corneal well being is at issue.

This is perfect for “suicidal” types who actually desire attention; as is proven by their lack luster and unsucessful attempt with an ordinary pistol.

btw from manufacturer:
Our Miniature Revolver ref. C1ST is not importable in the United States.
We have received a letter from the US Department of Justice mentioning that our Miniature Revolver does not meet with the minimum size prerequisites referring to the Factoring Criteria For Weapons ATF Form 4590.
Our revolver therefore is classified as not sporting and is not importable.

For 6,300 Swiss francs this gun can be yours. 6,300 Swiss francs translate into roughly $5,000 American dollars. The bullets alone are $7. each.

seams silly.

The Democrats and the Liberals shouldn’t be very worried about this device since they’re eyes are either closed or their heads are buried in the sand (or any other orifice that could hold a pea brain).
It’s time to pull your head out!
I’m not sure a thug would spend $500 on a gun built for Barbie.

I want one of these then i can shoot my friends and they would laugh!

I only have one question about this gun…. how would you pull the trigger? I mean you would probably have to use a stick or a loop of twine. I dont see how anyone above the age of 18 months could get their finger in the trigger guard.

from the manufacturers website
“The power of the SwissMiniGun Cal. 2.34m/m ammunition is just less than 1 joule.
We would like to take this opportunity to inform journalists who are interested in writing articles about our product that the power of most airguns or BB guns, which are in many countries freely on sale, can exceed over 10 times the power of our ammunition.
We do not wish to find on the web the same kind of nonsense article we have found lately.
Therefore, journalists are very welcome to contact us for any further information. Thank you.”
1/10 the power of a bb-gun, and it’s illegal in the U.S.
What a waste of an article.

If someone shot me with that gun and I found out about it —- I would be very ###### off!!