If you lost your hand or arm in some kind of accident and were getting a prostetic arm, would it be possible to get a gun inplanted in the hand? I was wondering if you could get it put into the prostetic and no one would be able to tell it was there; kind of a built in gun underneath the “skin”. Just wondering if anyone knew bout this… kinda been bugging me.
Thanks.
I should think it would be a fairly simple matter to encase a gun in an artificial arm, particularly a modified semi-automatic rifle action, perhaps something like the Ruger 10/22. Most handguns I can think of would be impractical to load and/or difficult to completely hide, but a rifle action with a flush or nearly-flush magazine would work.
Of course, there would always have to be some sort of access opening for loading, and some sort of modified trigger would need to be devised, but neither of these constraints are insurmountable. And there would have to be a hole somewhere for the bullets to exit…
I suppose you’d want the thing to fire through the extended middle finger, right?
Oh, and on second thought, you’d want either an exit port for the spent casings or some sort of temporary reservoir to hold them until the smoke clears and you can dump 'em out of your arm.
And to solve the problem of loading the initial round into the chamber, perhaps an action that fires from an open bolt?
Hmmmm… This is not a simple engineering exercise, but certainly doable.
Well, if Ash could attach a chainsaw to his arm…
What about a revolver mechanism that folds out, kinda like existing revolvers to load and to empty. Revolvers generally hold no more than six bullets, but laws in the united states prohibit magazines from carrying more than ten bullets anyway. This would allow the wielder to carry a .357 magnum cartrige if he wanted to. It would still show up on airport security x-ray machines though.
This sort of fantasy is often a result of playing Doom far into the night.
What actually happens to folks with artificial limbs at airport security? Is the limb detached and passed through the x ray machine?
Well, war veterans with shrapnel inside them or people with metal plates in their heads and suchlike carry papers saying this, and are gone over with a hand-held metal detector rather than passing through the big one. Artificial limbs are more obvious so they may be detached, if that is easily done, or they may carry similar papers.
I guess if you had some official paper explaining it, I’s SURE you wouldn’t have any trouble with airport security. :dubious:
Just a mention, but your arm would probably subject you to criminal charges for carrying a concealed weapon in much of the country.
And there IS (or was) a guy who has this. JJ Arms was some kind of high-profile private detective with 2 artificial arms, one of them with a gun built-in, IIRC.
Well, I certainly wasn’t talking about limbs with guns in them, just regular artificial limbs. I’m reasonably sure Mangetout meant plain old gunless limbs as well.
This presents a legal hurdle as well as the technical ones. A firearm designed to look like something else is regulated by the national firearms act and must be registered with the ATF as well as being subject to a special tax. Fortunately the tax stamp is only $5 for the AOW (any other weapon) catagory which includes among other things certain short shotguns, pen gun, cane guns, wallet guns and apparently now “hand” guns.
The tech branch informs us though that sharks with frickin’ laser beams in their heads are not under ATF jurisdiction as there is no projectile or explosive charge.
Not true. Civilians may not posess high capacity magazines built after September 1994 but there are literally millions of high capacity magazines that are perfectly legal to own and use in all but a few states.
If I had an artificial limb, I would definitely have several different attachments, one of which would be a gun. I have no real use for a gun, but I’d need on in my artificial arm nonetheless. I’d also have a chainsaw attachment. You could really freak out the neighbors by doing a little pruning around the yard with your chainsaw arm!
I’d also get a kick-ass scary hook.
I saw a show on artificial arms that can crush cans and feel hot and cold, and go through three 9-volt batteries per day. They rule.
What, no DORRANCE X5 STAINLESS STEEL HOOKS?
Yeah, yeah. I know you said “if” not “when.”
There was a private detective who actually did this… (If my dim memory of an episode of the 80’s tv show “Real People” counts as a cite…)
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