This Topic..
 

Was brought up a week ago

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=145298

It is my guess that the man who created it was attempting to make something that only required a doctor's prescription in order to buy it. By calling it a "medical assist device" perhaps he was trying to do an end-run around the background checks required to buy a firearm.

Or he was thinking of a legalised tool for self-inflicted euthanasia. :88)

I don't see how that would work. What doctor would risk his license to practice?

Don't think so. Sounds more like an end run around the insurance companies.

-S

I forgot to mention that it is entertaining to watching someone who has no idea in the use of a firearm make statements like in this thread. Skybird, you should really come to the United States so that we can teach you what a firearm is. Until then, leave it to the experts over here. Thanks.

-S

Looks I need to get one to add to the collection! That thing's pretty nifty lookin'.

If he had gotten the FDA approval that he was seeking, and for a time the guy actually thought he had, it would have been dispensed as a medical assist device.

Would a doctor be risking his license by prescribing an FDA approved medical assist device?

The FDA didn't approve it and now he hopes to sell it as a firearm....so it's a mute point.

@Subman: I agree about the insurance end run as well.

First, do not lump the disabled with the senile. No one suggested selling this to the senile, only the physically impaired. The elderly are not ALL senile.

Making products designed for the disabled so they can operate devices you take for granted is a popular and profitable business globally.

The object is to make the product so we CAN operate it safely. You're statement suggests if we cannot operate a "normal" device it should not be reinvented or modified so the disabled can use it. I repeat....SAFELY.

I shoot a rifle, yet I could never operate an unmodified gun....or this goofy device being discussed here.

I DON'T TAKE FIREARMS FOR GRANTED. Just for the record.

Neither do I. That is why I took hunter safety courses, and dad, and gramps, and uncles, all military veterans taught me early how to safely handle them.

But you are correct, they should never be taken lightly. Care and caution should always be exercised. The time something bad happens is when you relax that care. That's why in 35 years I've not had a mishap, or even a close call. Though I've not hunted in 20 years as I don't care for the taste of the game out on the high plains Rocky Mountain region, compared to the midwestern states, and the northeast. And the game is tougher, and needs more prep work before cooking.

It's always the "unloaded gun" that kills someone, which is why mine is always loaded :D

:rotfl: Ditto...

As long as you and your gun aren't at the same time, it's fine. :lol:

Then don't buy one.