FINGERTIP, FIREPOWER book Excerpts (by John Minnery) [1990]

 Hello everyone !!

Pens are the most useful items in our day. They make a major chunk of office supplies, helping us with notetaking, checklist making, signing important documents, leaving notes for people, sketching, and more. Whether you are a student or a scholar, a corporate employee, or a business owner, pens are the essential items needed by all. 

Also, the common pen has been used for decades as a housing for concealed guns, knives and bombs by secret agents, saboteurs and criminals. 

Here are some excerpts from the excellent book FINGERTIP, FIREPOWER by John Minnery :-

# Oriental pens are of the brush type and have hollow bamboo handles, which allow for the storage of messages, drugs, poisons, or pointed objects of various design and intent. [Pg #4]

# A fountain pen, ballpoint, or pencil can be used as a weapon as either a fist support in punching/ icepick/ hammer-fist fashion, driving the point into an enemy's eyes, throat, and belly. 

A mundane but lethal combination of pencil and compass might be carried in a nerdy shirt protect or that fits in the breast pocket. [Pg #4]

#  A saw-blade version of X-Acto pen-knife was discovered in a Canadian prison in Manitoba (1970s). [Pg #12]

# Pen guns fire bullets, blanks, distress flares, starshell rockets. [Pg # 29]

# Some exotic ammos for zip-guns :-- [Pg #39-41]

Gold bullet, explosive bullets, poison bullets, metal-jacketed bullets, industrial blanks.

# Pen Knife :--

Philippines "Secret Agent" co. pen-knife [1960s; L- 5"]

X-Acto pen knife [1970s; L- 7"]

"Guardfather Spike" pen knife [1980s; L- 6.25"]

# Pen Pistols :--

Webber pen-pistol [1905; L- 4"; 0.32 cal]

Dr. Byron C. Goss tear gas/ bullet pen-pistol [1926; L- 5"]

Peter Von Frantzius pencil-pistol [1930; L- 5"; 0.32 cal]

Penguin Industries pen-flare pistol [1960s; L- 4.5"]

Viet Cong pen-pistol [1960s; L- 4.96"; 0.22 cal]

Karl Kash "Super Weapon" pen-pistol [1975; L- 4"; 0.357 cal]


Thank you for reading !!


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