Smith & Wesson Proves The Pen Is Mightier Than The Pen

Hey, you never know when you might must be tool out someone's eye.

Scenario: You're on a craft from Dallas to Denver. You couldn't bring your bring piece, since the clowns who run the TSA regard civilians aren't competent to safely secretion firearms in the air. Knives, too, are moreover banned.

But luckily you have your tactical pen. It's a immaculately authorised tool for close-quarter war in the center of a flight. It's only a pen, after all. But it's moreover robust as hell, and bears a pointy finish that's best for deleterious soothing human tissue. It could be all you must be stop a terrorist. Or that man who looks similar to a terrorist, but turns out to be benign. But improved protected than sorry, right?

When probing is to world's many badass coop to help commemorate Gadget Lab's Month of Badass Gadgets, you checked out a couple of models but finally landed on the coop you see here done by Smith Wesson. Did you grasp that? It's done by Smith Wesson. Let's repeat: It's a coop done by Smith Wesson. And it's branded as such correct on the slot clip.

The pen's 5.7-inch bombard is machined from hard-anodized aluminum, and features grippy indentations for a confidence-inspiring clutch. The hat screws and unscrews with accuracy threading. The coop accepts familiar Parker and Hauser ink cartridges, and whilst the capsule tips might look sharp, you do not suggest using them in a defensive posture. The pen's nasty aluminum tip (shown below) is your tactical invulnerability tool, and that's where your consideration should be focused.

So is it a pen, or is it a weapon? It's a pen, of course!

Or is it? Nudge, nudge, wink, wink.

That's the beauty of tactical pens. They're entirely working ink pens, but moreover so full of badass, you can remonstrate yourself you're carrying hostility in an aluminum cartridge.

Interested in more badass gadgets? Check out our formerly entry, the PRI-MAX Industrial Shredder .