From:	"Dark Thought Publications." <JEK5313@*****.TAMU.EDU>
Subject:	Re: Hmmm
Date:	Mon, 30 Aug 1993 00:18:32 -0500

From: "Weird Thoughts Inc."
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Things that make you go Hmmmmmmmmmm. . .
]Quick Draw Smart link
]The magnet allows you to draw the weapon
]without you actually touching it.
]At between six inches to one foot the weapon practically leaps into the hand.
]Of course the weapon can't really be much larger than a pistol or maybe a small
]SMG and it will play bloody havok in places with metal dectors.
]Just a thought I wanted to throw out on the net.


Why not this, instead?
An idea from Harry Harrison's Deathworld series.
A shoulder holster, custom-made, which is connected via a cable to the butt of
the pistol. (This only works for pistols. Bigger weapons just don't fit into
this kind of a holster.)

[The cable is the main magic item, and I mean magic in this case as high-tech,
not enchantment (just so Nightstalker and I won't have any conflicts over magic
and tech conflicts, at least in _this_ message. :) )]

The cable is a totally flexible plastic. However, when a current is applied,
it becomes rigid, and adopts an (ONE) designed position, namely that of your
hand's location. The current is triggered by muscle movements in the forearm
of a particular type. (Shoot-Kill-Bang type.)

Tech view: you give command for red alert to brain, impulses sent from arm to
miniprocessor, which interprets for proper signal, and sends current through
cable at receipt of proper signal.

Street view: You think "gun" and it's in your hand, almost instantly.

Sorry about the roundabout method of description. I'm running on 6 hours of
sleep in the last 60-or-so hours, and coherency at all is a major
accomplishment.


--Flare <NULLSIG COURTESY OF DOOM>

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