Watch it! Some guns come as phones

FOR an average traveller, almost the most traumatic experience is going through the checks at the airport. In most cases, security checks involve removing of belts, wrist watches, shoes and in many instances mobile phones.

Some of these checks as far as travellers are concerned are mostly dehumanising if not outrightly violating. But recent discoveries have proved that the security operatives could not have been outrightly mischievous in insisting on most of those routine security checks.

Imagine a recent discovery where a .22 caliber gun, comes in a portable mobile phone, and think what havoc that can cause in the event it was not discovered.

Beneath the digital phone face is a .22 caliber handgun capable of firing four rounds in rapid succession using the standard telephone keypad. European law enforcement officials are stunned by the discovery of these deadly decoys. They say phone guns are changing the rules of engagement in Europe, adding that it is only by handling it, that one gets to realise how heavier it is than a regular cell phone.

This serves as a call for travellers to be patient if security asks to look at their cell phone or demands that it is turned on to show that it works.This discovery justifies why security demands cell phones through the x-ray machine.