US Patent and Trademark Office is one of the greatest repositories of practical knowledge in history. But along with a great deal of very serious and edifying material, much legally advised and/or required verbiage, and inventor-inspired general-purpose pleonasms, there are some items in their records that are highly amusing. In this series, occasional examples of such patents and patent applications are going to be extracted and put up for their amusement value.
California's entertainment industry has a long record of bloopers, mistakes, disasters, as well as silly and unsafe behavior depicted in films. In some parts, their record of depicting antisocial behavior, and giving people bad ideas to emulate has come for significant criticism. In this case, someone has depicted a series of patent embodiments that seems to be a successful attempt to check all the "bad behavior" boxes. The job of making a list of all the "don't do that" behaviors depicted in this patent is left as an exercise for the reader... A few starting points: just about every rule of good firearm handling gets violated in this patent's depiction. Maybe teaching people to point firearms at fellow passengers instead of targets, while placing fingers on triggers of said firearms, in a context of defensive shooting, is not what they should be teaching?
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