{"id":8042,"date":"2015-11-22T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-22T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2015\/11\/22\/braverman-stinger-pen-gun\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T16:37:28","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T21:37:28","slug":"braverman-stinger-pen-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2015\/11\/22\/braverman-stinger-pen-gun\/","title":{"rendered":"Braverman &#8220;Stinger&#8221; Pen Gun"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HhnpKyORQy8?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.Patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.Patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hammer price: $2500<\/p>\n<p>The US National Firearms Act includes a category called &#8220;Any Other Weapon&#8221;, which encompasses a variety of regulated weapons, including firearms which are disguised to look live other everyday objects, such as canes, and pens. R.J. Braverman, however, devised and patented a type of pen gun which the ATF concluded was not subject to regulation as an AOW. Braverman did this by designing a gun which had to be folded into a vaguely gun-like shape before it could be fired, thus negating its disguised look.<\/p>\n<p>The gun was called the &#8220;Stinger&#8221;, and was sold in the 1990s in several calibers &#8211; .22LR, .22WMR, .25ACP, .32ACP, and .380 (although it was recommended not to shoot the .38-=0 much, as it could damage the gun&#8217;s mechanism). While it was legally simply a handgun, the Stinger was pretty limited in its capabilities. It was a single shot device, and rather laborious to reload. It also featured an automatically-engaged safety and no sights. Still, if you wanted a gun that looked like a pen (or perhaps like a tire pressure gauge), the Stinger was definitely your easiest solution!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.Patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons Hammer price: $2500 The US National Firearms Act includes a category called &#8220;Any Other Weapon&#8221;, which encompasses a variety of regulated weapons, including firearms which are disguised to look live other everyday objects, such as canes, and pens. R.J. Braverman, however, devised and patented a type of pen gun which the ATF concluded was&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2015\/11\/22\/braverman-stinger-pen-gun\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Braverman &#8220;Stinger&#8221; Pen Gun<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":8043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15464,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8042\/revisions\/15464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}