Man builds homemade gun from items that can all be purchased in the airport terminal.

I'd say that a slingshot and a ball bearing would be more deadly.

Except to the guy firing the gun. He'd probably lose a hand, judging from the video clip.

What a ball of sh1te.

Looks like you'd have better odds surviving strapping a bomb to yourself rather than firing that yoke.

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

All joking aside, even with the know how, is it ethical to actually go to press with the precise know how as to how to construct a potentially fatal home made device at an airport.

No. Absolutely not.

It's not like he's an engineering genius. There are 10,000 other people who could figure out how to do this without any instructions. Including terrorists.

Security at the airport is security theatre. Sure, it does a good job of keeping the out-and-out nutjobs at bay, but then a basic screening would be just as good at that as the current measures.

Simple fact is that anyone who wants to hijack an airliner will find out ways to do it. Plastic is easily carried onto a plane and plastic stabbing weapons are then easily fashioned. Take a laptop for example. Many will have an aluminium casing. Pop off the casing, score the underside of it so that it's not visible on the external side and re-attach it to the laptop. On board, you pop the case off, snap it into the pre-scored shapes and hand out metal shanks to all your co-hijackers.

The ban on liquids aims to prevent people from carrying in pre-prepared explosives disguised as gels and aerosols, but plenty of chemicals react with water. You'd easily get them through security in powdered form and then you can buy your bottle(s) of water airside.

This guy is simply demonstrating what is already known - getting weapons on board an aircraft is not difficult for someone who really wants to do it.

So no, I don't see any ethical issue in demonstrating how it can be done.

Although the poor guy now will probably be tried on treason or aiding and abetting terrorism or some other bull**** charge.

Excuse me while I lay personal items in the aisle of this here metal bird. Nothing to be suspicious of here.

Or you know, you could turn up the airport a couple of hours before your flight, go into a toilet and put this together and then put it in your backpack ready for when you get on the plane.

syklops wrote: »

Good luck with that

You could do that with an aerosol,forget the mentos.

Lapin wrote: »

Or undesired if you find yourself at the wrong end of them.

Which in this case is anywhere within 2 metres of the thing.

Anyone holding it would lose their arms.

Hilarious though!