Selecter Versatile Defensive Weapon
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Nicholas C
Published: May 5th, 2015
Bryan S. sent me these pics of an odd defensive weapon. G-L Industries, in New Jersey, made this semi-automatic pistol for defense purposes. It is sort of predecessor to the paintball gun. It uses a CO2 cartridge for propulsion and is loaded by a 5 rd box magazine. It uses a variety of ammunition: stinger, noise, tear gas and fluorescent dye.
Here is an ad from Popular Mechanics back in 1970.
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I remember when these came out, right up there with the "Un-Gun" for LTL use.
I had a good collection of odd LTL devices as I was partners in the 1st airsoft/paintball catalog in the US.
We had the exclusive distributorship for the Model 85 paintball gun in the US for a few years. ( I have probably shot 100,000 rds or more thru the model 85, doing testing and QC work)
We also tracked down the "Un-Gun" maker and bought out all of the stock he had left and reimagined it into a M79 style paint grenade launcher system.
Never sold very well but I had a heck of the time in the mid 80's traveling to paintball fields to demo our product. Kitted out with some of the 1st nylon "tactical" gear ( holsters and pouches from Keith Idema Combat systems and vest by Elevated Urban Operations) , 2 model 85's in thigh holsters and a direct feed Sheriden pump rifle with a Un-gun mounted under barrel (Ala a M203).
This was the days of pumps and splatmasters, so for the 1st year or so I was like a time traveler showing up at a Civil War battle with a M-16. Those were fun days.
I actually am more interested in the ad for the "Gnat" vehicle or the "Plywood Sports Car" then the plastic "toy" gun. lol