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Moonraker Gadgets

Wrist Dart Gun

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The 2012-13 watchword was “Austerity”, and with cutbacks to public services and funding, it is hard to imagine the same line being uttered by Q, “This is now being issued as standard equipment.”
As Bond tries his new watch looking gadget (I saw ‘watch looking’ because it wasn’t a watch – that would have been on his left wrist), on for size, Q adds, “It’s activated by nerve impulses from the wrist muscles.”
A wonderfully converted cassette tape box reveals ten darts, “Five blue tipped with armour piercing heads. Five red tipped, cyanide coated, causing death in thirty seconds.”

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Concealed Wrist Weaponry

Concealed weaponry has existed for many hundreds of years, and the wrist is an ideally located place to conceal virtually anything deadly.
Below are four YouTube videos that we unearthed that show the mechanisms and even how to construct them yourself - something we would most certainly not recommend. 
They are all the working basis for movie prop designers and the Wrist Dart Gun featured in Moonraker is no different. Indeed, the technology below reveals that it is actually a rather low-tech engineering project that and self respecting Q Branch would probably mass produce. 
One thing we should add, is that the small children playing at making a wrist gun below, are probably a fair indicator as to why America really does need to debate its gun control laws fully and openly.

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