# Bra Gun **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 6, 2016, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bra-gun/756689 "2016-06-06T23:43:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2016, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bra-gun/756689/41 "2016-06-08T00:58:06Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > **U** [del]rsula A[/del] **ndress** Somewhere I have an old Mad Magazine with that line in it. There have been a lot of odd guns developed that never saw much use; from the Puckle or even earlier to today. A bra gun? Probably sounded like a good idea at the time to someone. Pointed bras were in fashion, it didn’t add much size or weight, and the heat or recoil from something like a .25 is basically nothing. So why not? The only real drawback I see is the triggering system and the idea of letting an attacker get that close. But like I said, they still sell tons of those for-shit belt-buckle .22 revolvers so ------ who am I to judge? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2016, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bra-gun/756689/42 "2016-06-08T02:50:04Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > Somewhere I have an old Mad Magazine with that line in it. That’s _exactly_ where I got it. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2016, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bra-gun/756689/43 "2016-06-08T03:13:31Z")
In a Dick Tracy comic strip there was a gangster with an oversized denture fitted to fire bullets. ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2016, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bra-gun/756689/44 "2016-06-08T03:51:16Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > **Moderating** > > You’re welcome to start another thread if you have some serious questions. A thread that started out based on something seen in Austin Powers movie was never going to be very serious. > > Colibri > General Questions Moderator Yea, I was tired when I wrote that. It came off far more serious than I meant it to. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2016, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bra-gun/756689/45 "2016-06-08T04:31:20Z")
I was just reading, the other day, about a man who built up a fistula through his body so that there was a full, uninterrupted path from the front of his body to the back. He used it to stick swords through himself, as a stage act. If you took the time to do something similar, going through the rib cage and pushing the organs to the side, theoretically, you could run a barrel through your chest. Probably, you would just want to do one breast though. > **[Skepticblog » The Mysterious Case of Mirin Dajo, the Human Pincushion](https://www.skepticblog.org/2010/05/13/the-mysterious-case-of-mirin-dajo-the-human-pincushion/)** > > SkepticBlog is a collaboration among some of the most recognized names in promoting science, critical thinking, and skepticism. Regular bloggers include: Brian Dunning, Daniel Loxton, Donald Prothero, Mark Edward, Michael Shermer, and Steven Novella.... ---
**Author:** ![ultimate11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/49beb7/32.png) [@ultimate11](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultimate11)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2016, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bra-gun/756689/46 "2016-06-08T13:13:31Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > Are we talking about _Machete Kills_? That scene with the “arma disparando consolador”\* at the end? But now that I think about the question, wouldn’t a bra gun be redundant? :rolleyes: \*Had to keep this post SFW. Translate it if you want, that film was weird. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2016, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bra-gun/756689/47 "2016-06-08T14:14:51Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > I was just reading, the other day, about a man who built up a fistula through his body so that there was a full, uninterrupted path from the front of his body to the back. He used it to stick swords through himself, as a stage act. > > If you took the time to do something similar, going through the rib cage and pushing the organs to the side, theoretically, you could run a barrel through your chest. Probably, you would just want to do one breast though. > > [Skepticblog » The Mysterious Case of Mirin Dajo, the Human Pincushion](http://www.skepticblog.org/2010/05/13/the-mysterious-case-of-mirin-dajo-the-human-pincushion/) Superb contribution to a superb GQ thread. Going on my cocktail-party-facts list. I’ve seen people do that with their earlobes. From now on I wil call them fistulas. ---
**Author:** ![Turble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Turble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turble)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2016, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bra-gun/756689/48 "2016-06-08T15:06:15Z")
Nobody mentions “Deadly Weapons”, a 1970’s film by Doris Wishman, the queen of sexploitation films, with Chesty Morgan and Harry Reems. NSFW trailer: [spoiler][http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069952/[/spoiler]](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069952/%5B/spoiler%5D) ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2016, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bra-gun/756689/49 "2016-06-08T16:52:12Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > I was just reading, the other day, about a man who built up a fistula through his body so that there was a full, uninterrupted path from the front of his body to the back. He used it to stick swords through himself, as a stage act. > > If you took the time to do something similar, going through the rib cage and pushing the organs to the side, theoretically, you could run a barrel through your chest. Probably, you would just want to do one breast though. > > [Skepticblog » The Mysterious Case of Mirin Dajo, the Human Pincushion](http://www.skepticblog.org/2010/05/13/the-mysterious-case-of-mirin-dajo-the-human-pincushion/) Presumably this would work only with fencing foils, not regular swords, which have flat blades. Unless this “fistula” happened to have a rudely exaggerated diameter that could accommodate a wide blade. ---
**Author:** ![DudeManBro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@DudeManBro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DudeManBro)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2016, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bra-gun/756689/50 "2016-06-08T17:08:11Z")
Probably too impractical for anyone to even bother coming up with. The breasts do not seem capable of taking a lot of recoil, even from so so handgun rounds. The barrel would have to be very short to not look ridiculous and apparent. So poor ballistics from an already weak round launched from an unstable mound of fatty tissue… I think a single shot design firing a projectile that doesn’t depend on energy or much penetration would be best. Like a smallish bullet, hollowed out and filled with a fast acting poison or some such. Maybe designed with a gel recoil pad that braces against the sternum. Or just be practical and design a decent concealment holster that rides high on the thigh/panty line, that can be easily concealed wearing a skirt/dress, etc… That way you can actually have a somewhat effective weapon. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2016, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bra-gun/756689/51 "2016-06-08T17:10:22Z")
How about Chester Gould’s denture pistol? ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2016, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bra-gun/756689/52 "2016-06-08T17:57:55Z")
> [@Turble](#): > > Nobody mentions “Deadly Weapons”, a 1970’s film by Doris Wishman, the queen of sexploitation films, with Chesty Morgan and Harry Reems. > > NSFW trailer: [spoiler][http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069952/[/spoiler]](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069952/%5B/spoiler%5D) I had just read about a similar murder. [Story here](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2263190/Donna-Lange-51-smothers-boyfriend-death-breasts-drunken-row-caravan.html). Also, in the book _Diamond Age_ there is a guy who gets a gun implanted in his forehead. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2016, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bra-gun/756689/53 "2016-06-09T18:07:47Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > I had just read about a similar murder. [Story here](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2263190/Donna-Lange-51-smothers-boyfriend-death-breasts-drunken-row-caravan.html). > > Also, in the book _Diamond Age_ there is a guy who gets a gun implanted in his forehead. Oh crap that murder happened in a town I used to live in, about a year after I left. I guess I left just in time! (Not shocked, that city made national headlines for its bikini baristas.) ---
**Author:** ![OffByOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/45deac/32.png) [@OffByOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OffByOne)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2016, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bra-gun/756689/54 "2016-06-09T18:17:11Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > So, it’d be like a pair of snub-nosed 38s, then? She was totin’ a set of 44’s, an’ they were both loaded! ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2016, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bra-gun/756689/55 "2016-06-11T23:36:28Z")
Perhaps it could shoot a stream of breast milk, sort of like a water gun. You could blind someone that way. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2016, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bra-gun/756689/56 "2016-06-12T03:22:23Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Perhaps it could shoot a stream of breast milk, sort of like a water gun. You could blind someone that way. Last I heard, the female body comes with that power straight from the factory (after enabled). ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2016, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bra-gun/756689/57 "2016-06-12T14:50:08Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > Last I heard, the female body comes with that power straight from the factory (after enabled). Well, I do hear squirters are widely sought after. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2016, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bra-gun/756689/58 "2016-06-12T14:50:28Z")
> [@SeaDragonTattoo](#): > > As a woman who recently applied for her CCL and is currently trying out different ways to carry, it was far too much to hope for a practical conversation about real life female carry issues. I was ready to come in here with opinions about that front under-bra holster that’s too puny to hold my gun, but nope. _sigh_ IIRC the [flashbang](https://www.gungoddess.com/flashbang-bra-holster/)? Personally I don’t like the idea of asking someone to pause while I rummage around untucking my shirt and fishing around … I am more fond of a [5.11 tac shirt](https://www.amazon.com/5-11-40011-010-66-Tactical-Holster-Shirt/dp/B003Z0EVFM) to be honest. Not entirely as concealed but with my Sauer 38H it works [and I can keep my droid phone on the other side. I wear it as the skin tight undershirt under a looser oversized thermal tshirt.] I suppose you could go for a custom tac shirt with something like a [Semmerling LM4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semmerling_LM4) or another seriously [compact](http://www.wideopenspaces.com/compact-handguns-that-get-job-done/) weapon. [Though for knocking around the house I prefer a left crossdraw on a belt under an oversized shirt, but YMMV] ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2019, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bra-gun/756689/60 "2019-01-10T11:07:35Z")
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**Author:** ![MikeF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MikeF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeF)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2019, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bra-gun/756689/61 "2019-01-10T15:28:02Z")
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