GUNS FOR ASSASSINS, CONTINUED
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The article Dan saw appeared in the June 1995 issue of Modern Gun, which hit the streets maybe 15 minutes after my column claiming no nonmetallic (and thus undetectable) guns were currently available. It was headlined “The CIA’s Glass Gun.” Clearly an agency plant to make me look bad. However, I stand by my column. No nonmetallic guns are available–by which of course I mean commercially available. Whether they’re available to CIA spooks is another story.
The article says (well, implies) that the CIA made several prototype nonmetallic guns using “a super-hard ceramic material” originally developed for the exhaust valves in General Motors auto engines. The stuff “literally has the strength of steel,” the article says. “The agency considered the material so important to national security that it reportedly had its formula classified, thereby preventing GM from marketing it.”
