
Thursday, 2 July 2015
Cops hate this gun-shaped iPhone case
By Aaron Smith @AaronSmithCNN
The gun-shaped case is available at several online stores.
Police are up in arms over an iPhone case that's shaped like a gun.
"Most kids carry their cell phone in their back pocket, and if someone reaches for it, in my mind they're reaching for a gun," said Al Della Fave, a retired New Jersey state trooper and firearms instructor.
Dellla Fave, a spokesman for the Ocean County Prosecutor's Office in New Jersey, shared a
Facebook ( , Tech30 ) photo of the iPhone case that he found on a closed social media site for cops. A model poses with her phone tucked into her back pocket, and the protruding case looks like the handle of a semiautomatic compact pistol.
Della Fave said that if a teenager draws the phone in the presence of a cop "the first thing they're going to see as it's coming up is the trigger guard and the butt of the gun. This doesn't seem like a good idea at all to me."
The model in the Facebook image also poses with the phone next to her face, talking into it, and it looks like she's brandishing a gun.
The phone case is sold online by various retailers at prices from about $5 to $49 and comes in several different colors.
"The app means you can play games of Russian Roulette at parties!" said Japan Trend Shop, in its
online product description . "Don't worry, you can't actually shoot anyone!"
The NYPD did not return messages from CNNMoney. But an NYPD cop from the 112th precinct of Queens, NY, tweeted the image with a few words of advice, "I would NOT suggest purchasing this cell phone case, which was designed to look like a firearm."
It is not clear who manufactures the case.
"If it's on the web then it's out there somewhere, that's the bottom line," said Della Fave.

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