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Technological research has sometimes explore strange land. In the United States, the Constitution Arms firm boasts of having devised a firearm used by people with diseases that prevent the press a trigger. Strange, it seeks by all means to obtain the approval of U.S. health authorities, so that the equipment is reimbursed by health insurance. FDA resists. Imagine selling a one-shot weapon 9 mm might be amusing if this was going on an adventure of Lucky Luke. But Arms Constitution does not joking at all. Member of the National Rifle Association, the powerful lobby of firearms in the USA, the company-which seems to have been created for the occasion - has developed a strange device that is activated by pressing that looks like a handle. It hopes to sell it below the three hundred dollars, without specifying the date of marketing."Easy to shoot. Defense serious. " This can be read on the web site presentation of the weapon, of course, protected by patents. But for now, the FDA, which issues certificates to products of health, has resisted. The Agency has indicated in a few days ago that the gun could not be considered as medical instrument. The inventor protests, claiming that the elderly and disabled have the right, like everyone else in the United States, to protect themselves with a firearm. He had tried to accept his invention as "adapter leisure. A few days earlier, the manufacturer had said with great news-listed in the press without inspections that the gun had been approved. The FDA was quick to deny the information. This has not prevented people from taking the case. On 11 December evening, Google returns over ninety miles to the reference mark this firearm. Remains whether the weapon will emerge. The manufacturer has released the images of the unit (photo). And key global databases on patents that we have consulted do not mention the gear. The first weapon of palm based on this principle was conceived in 1882 by a French inventor, Jacques-Edmond Turbiaux. Its "Protector" could draw seven to ten-shot, depending on model. It was marketed in small series in the USA. According to the National Association of Firearms (Canda), the equipment is sold between 1500 and 2000 Canadian dollars to collectors. Without reimbursement by the security. |
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