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US 2002/0170219 A1Published application
Dischargeable hand weapons having reduced criminal usefulness
OwnerJohn Mikel Martininventor
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Abstract
Methods and apparatuses for reducing the criminal usefulness of a dischargeable hand weapon used for defense by limiting its dichargeability to the area where it is kept for defense, by disclosing its location, and by disclosing that its imminent use is contemplated.
Claims20
An apparatus comprising:
- a dischargeable hand weapon;
- means for determining the information that for a certain duration of time immediately preceding said determining, said determining means was always present in an area having certain maximum dimensions;
- means, in contact with said weapon, for preventing the discharging of said weapon based on said preventing means not receiving said information;
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- means, in contact with said determining means and said preventing means, for linking said determining means to said preventing means when said preventing means is within a certain distance of said determining means so that said information can be received by said preventing means.
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A method for reducing the criminal usefulness of a hand weapon comprising the steps of:
- preventing the discharging of said weapon;
- determining that for a certain duration of time immediately preceding said determining, an object was always present in an area having certain maximum dimensions;
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- allowing the discharging of said weapon so long as said weapon is within a certain maximum distance of said object, said weapon is linked to said object, and said object has continued to always be present in said area.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.