Pocket flashlight gun

[copeab]

Available for T2013, anyway:

http://www.jokeroo.com/videos/funny/fmg-9-concept-rifle.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY2EqFzPzn8

Pretty handy and generally innocent looking, although much more of a backup weapon than a primary firearm.

[LBraden]

Actually, with it being basically a Glock, I can actually see use for that in a "date edited Morrow Project" in a sense, as of its "innocent looking nature" while in packed form.

However, I have seen that weapon before now, it was on one of the weapon shows on British TV, quite interesting little gizmo

[Canadian Army]

Here are a couple of Flashlight Weapons I found.

Tear Gas Flashlight
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This Combination flashlight gun was invented by V. Merifield, of the Los Angeles police department. At the pressing of a trigger the device ejects a spray of ammonia or gas from a jet to disable any suspect who might attempt to draw a weapon when the flashlight is aimed. The gun weigh only six ounces, had fewer than a dozen parts, and was practically indestructible. Jet and light were controlled by separate triggers. One filling provides 20 shots of gas. Source: Modern Mechanix; March 1937

Shotgun Flashlight
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The ARES Defense Systems Company a Mag-Light Flashlight that can be used as a shotgun. A grenade-style pin removes the safety, and the flashlight fires a .410 shotgun round out the back when a button is pressed.

Shotgun Mini-Flashlight
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The Mini-Mag size fires a .380 round.

[helbent4]

Actually, with it being basically a Glock, I can actually see use for that in a "date edited Morrow Project" in a sense, as of its "innocent looking nature" while in packed form.

However, I have seen that weapon before now, it was on one of the weapon shows on British TV, quite interesting little gizmo

Lee,

although Mag-Pull wasn't around , both Glocks and the Ares FMG were in both the T2K and TMP timelines.

Someone, somewhere, could easily have developed a similar weapon as a 1-off prototype in their spare time in some machine shop using a Glock G18. (Or, some Project armourer could whip one up in his or her spare time using some kind of advanced auto-cad apparatus, intended perhaps as a survival weapon for HAAM operators?)

Also, the Russians liked the concept enough to make a (crappy) version in the 90's, the PP-90. It wasn't well-liked but could have been issued to second-line troops invading North America in the late '90's or fighting in Europe.

Tony

[dragoon500ly]

people have been hiding firearms in the strangest places ever since firearms have existed.

An old CIA weapon was a cigarette that fired a .22LR round. As was a Zippo lighter (geeze ask some guy for a light and next thing you know you have a
.22 shoved up your nose!).

How about a cigar case with a Galious "squeezer"? This one dates back to the 1870s, a plain metal case holding a little .32 pistol, and good for 7 shots!

Walking sticks where you could pull the grip off and have be left holding a single shot, pistol-caliber or shotgun round.

How about the ole key gun. Back in the 1830s, this was a single-shot .36-caliber pistol, disgused to look like an old metal key, jail guards used this one since you could unlock the door and still have a weapon handy!

[Tegyrius]

The Magpul product popped up at SHOT Show a couple-three years back. At the time, they were just showing off a prototype, and the video indicates that it's still in that stage, not production. Theoretically, one using a G17 rather than G18 as the base gun would be civilian-legal in the US, though NFA-regulated as a short-barreled rifle.

(Disclaimer: I covered the original Ares design in Shooter's Guide: Alternate Arms, and did the FMG9 and PP-90 in Undercover Arms.)

- C.