They are still around...

[Ivo Skoric]

The next issue of TIME magazine will raun a story about Croatian made 
cell phone guns. This is old, actually. And originally it started in 
Serbia. In late 1990-s some of the weapons techies from Kragujevac 
Zastava factory came up with the idea and early design of a small .22 
caliber gun made to look like a cell phone, for Arkan's thugs 
probably. Tru Bosnia, Montenegro, Kosovo, and Croatia the product 
reached the West. A couple of years ago an Albanian youth was caught 
in Britain in possession of one such device - and then the story 
broke. There were pics on the web about it and on the ABC. It was 
thought though that with fall of Milosevic regime this plague is 
gone. Now, it seems, it did not: instead, it became one of the most 
hi-tech products manufactured exclusively in Croatia. Well, at least 
the 'brotherhood and unity' is still alive in the underworld.
http://cellular.co.za/phones/gunphone/gun-phone.htm
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/c/cellgun.htm
http://www.iacsp.com/deadly-decoys.html
http://www.breakthechain.org/exclusives/cellguns.html

ivo

<<By: Fred Fasitto

European officials have seized cell phones that fire bullets. As 
usual, the United States trails in cutting-edge mobile gadgets.

The gun/phone convergence device was smuggled into Germany from 
Croatia in November, according to Ananova.com. Days later, the 
Observer reported that a similar device was seized in England. By 
December 5, 2000, U.S. evening news broadcasts were alarming viewers 
with tales of the small firearm. The weapons, capable of firing four 
.22-caliber shots, obviously worry police and other officials, who 
had assumed the G in 3G meant generation, not gun.

The devices apparently look just like phones. The tip-off, officials 
said, is the weight of the device.

And, of course, its inability to make calls.

>>

On 27 Jan 2004 at 1:17, ASTAZG at aol.com wrote:





    N O T E B O O K
Press M for Murder: Cell Phones That Kill
Security experts are watching for guns disguised as mobile phones By
ADAM ZAGORIN

Monday, Feb. 02, 2004

Don't be surprised if you're asked to whip out your cell phone and
make a call next time you go through airport security. A mobile phone
that masquerades as a gun may sound like a device concocted for 007,
but it's the latest hidden weaponry to show up on the radar of
law-enforcement folks. 

Sources tell TIME that cell-phone guns, some of which have been 
seized
in drug raids in the Netherlands, England and Germany, have been 
cited
in several federal security alerts over the past year, the most 
recent
just over a month ago. Though heavier than normal phones, the lethal
ones look nearly identical. The hollowed-out devices, made in 
Croatia,
are fired by punching buttons on the keypad and can shoot four
.22-cal. bullets in rapid succession. 

So far, no phony phones are known to have surfaced in the U.S. And
aviation-security experts say screening equipment now in use can
detect the cell guns and other "improvised explosive devices," such 
as
fake calculators, cameras, laptops and PDAs. To speed your next
security check, you may want to leave some of those gadgets behind,
along with your tool kit. Says a senior U.S. law-enforcement 
official:
"Even a screwdriver could conceal a shotgun shell in a hollowed-out
handle." 



>From the Feb. 02, 2004 issue of TIME magazine 
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