“Police are up in arms over an iPhone case that’s shaped like a gun,” Aaron Smith reports for CNN.
“‘Most kids carry their cell phone in their back pocket, and if someone reaches for it, in my mind they’re reaching for a gun,’ said Al Della Fave, a retired New Jersey state trooper and firearms instructor,” Smith reports. “Della Fave said that if a teenager draws the phone in the presence of a cop ‘the first thing they’re going to see as it’s coming up is the trigger guard and the butt of the gun. This doesn’t seem like a good idea at all to me.'”
“The phone case is sold online by various retailers at prices from about $5 to $49 and comes in several different colors,” Smith reports. “It is not clear who manufactures the case.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Well, it is crystal clear that whoever manufacturers this case is an fscking idiot.
Obviously, do not buy or use this dangerously stupid product. It could easily lead to its users getting quickly and irrevocably introduced to the business end of a real gun.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Edward W.” for the heads up.]
I’ll order one for Cocoa Boy’s birthday if they come in pink.
GOD BLESSS botvinnik for always thinking of others! If only more people could be as open minded and humanitarian!
GOD BLESS YOU!
/s
I am thoughtful of others.
botty! Get back under your bridge where you belong and leave the nice people on this site alone. Your dad (who ever he might be) and I didn’t meant to raise you as a bigoted, racist moron. We will always be sorry for our failure.
Cop Assisted Suicide…
Having a wallet is enough for that though, if you are black: https://youtu.be/xeOaTpYl8mE (hello from 2000; nothing has changed much or it got even worse).
Trying to embed:
youtube.com/watch?v=xeOaTpYl8mE
Just watched it in full; it looks like after those fifteen years things got worse, because police now murders black men even without anything in their hands at all. They even murder naked people, claiming mortal danger.
Oh please.
“Oh please” what?
Plain old Darwinism in action.
Helps weed out the results from the shallow end of the gene pool.
Maybe the NRA could offer one of these to each new member.
This case can go in every swag bag at the Darwin Awards.
Hey dumb ass, we carry the real thing concealed.
Bet that makes you wet your little panties, doesn’t it Nancy.
Totally irresponsible. Should be banned from the market immediately.
It looks like there is an app that goes with it so that the barrel in on-screen. Its probably bought through the Apple App store. Apple should cease offering that app! Come on Apple, get with the program!
The image may not be from a released app. It could be a developer working on an app. Hopefully Apple would quash anything this blatantly stupid.
It doesn’t need to be an app, a still image would provide the look and there’s nothing that Apple could do to prevent that.
omalansky, a little extreme are we. How Putan esq.
Why would someone want to have an iPhone case shaped like a gun? I have nothing against guns, but this is stupid.
It’s because certain people worship guns. You can see all sorts of things shaped like guns – even a barbecue / smoker. You rarely see anything like that outside of the US.
http://bbqgun.com ( or search for images of gun BBQ to see many more )
Going back to the iPhone case, using something that looks like a replica gun in a place where many people have real guns is not a recipe for a long life.
Even worse would be a real gun shaped like a cell phone…
Aw come on, I find it hard to believe that police feel this way. I thought it would be a welcome cover up when they shoot someone. You know, the old “thought he was reaching for his gun.” approach.
It wouldn’t be a problem if the police force wasn’t full of “shoot first and ask questions later” Barney Fife officers.
Remember all those wild west cowboy movies. He who draws his gun first wins. In a society filled to the brim with guns, who can blame the police for being on tenterhooks and trigger happy.
Teddy twink is peeing in his pants (panties, a question of identification)
They would do better making it for Android.
Stupid case for a stupid phone.
There are probably more Android users dumb enough to buy one of these.
I’m not saying that we should kill stupid people and liberals. Let’s just remove the warning labels and let the problem work itself out
Let me guess: it’s an American idea, isn’t it? Probably! No other folk (or almost none) is that much attracted by carrying a weapon in the pocket. Pathetic!
You can thank the constitution and the right to bear arms.
Fake guns bad, might get you killed.
Real guns are fine though.
Lol stupid Americans.
That is effing retarded. But as as Obi-wan said, who’s more foolish, the fool or the fool who follows him ? In other words anyone buying and taking one of these out in public if a supreme effing retard.
It’s another great example of the old maxim:
Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should!
Time you Yanks got a grip on guns in general. No other civilised country in the world allows guns to be openly bought like you do. Obama needs to get a grip and DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.