- Hey guys, Patrick R. with TFB TV, and today I'm gonna talk to you about, my pen here. Well, actually this thing is a gun. This a Braverman Stinger, and this one is chambered
with a .22 long rifle. They make these things in
a whole bunch of calibers like .22 Long Rifle, .22 Magnum. Even more popular calibers like .380, and .32. Now kind of fun is the .380 conversion that you bought for these
things, if it broke the gun, Braverman would no longer warranty it, because they pretty much told you that it was going to break. So I don't think that
was real popular option. Now you do have that safety right which it engages every
time you close the pistol back into the pen configuration. Now, to reload this thing, you unscrew the chamber entirely, just like that, and then drop another
.22 Long Rifle in there. Now obviously this thing
is not very accurate, and probably its recommended
use is to stick it into the, some orifice of your attacker, and pull the trigger. Or as an assassination tool
or something like that. But if you look at this thing, I mean it's obvious this isn't a pen. You Know? Maybe if they had some
sort of cap or something, you know, it might pass for a pen. So, I mean were probably not gonna to hit a whole lot of stuff with it today, but it will be a lot of fun to shoot, because seriously, who gets the chance to shoot a pen everyday? I mean, I don't. Alright, let's load up some
Venture Munitions ammo. Thanks to those guys for sending some ammo over that'll work in this thing. And we'll have a good time. Alright, so Braverman
Stinger is, like I said, it's a pen that's also a gun. But we were fooling around with it trying to figure out how everything works, what ammo it likes, what
ammo it doesn't like, and learned that it is really, really picky about how you treat it. So to turn it into a gun, you take the pen, obviously keeping the
muzzle away from you, because I'm muzzling you guys right now, that's the barrel, that's the muzzle. Keep the shortest portion of the safety, so there's two sides, you've got a little line on the bottom, and that's the bottom of the pistol, and then on the top it's got that kind of point here at the back, and you'll see that in just a second. Pull it all the way out, bend it over as far as it will go, and then now you have your gun. Now, in order to disengage the safety, you rotate that collar, and now it's off safe. (gun fires) You can't hit anything because
it has no sights at all. So, what I found really interesting is you have to cock the gun. It has to be cocked in
order to get the barrel off, which means you need to cock it like that to get the barrel off, obviously and then can use the gun itself to kind of, pry the case out. Maybe, I might have to break out my pocket knife because it's a little bit on the tight side, and I'm going to have to do that. So there's no extractor
on this thing either. As I drop the barrel. So you have to kind of get in there, and get that case out. So now that we have the case out, I can load it up again. It's not exactly like a
fast shooting firearm. So now we got another round. Slide that into the chamber. Actually be careful not to muzzle ourselves as soon as it's on the gun. So now technically this should be, you know, like okay to just like pull the trigger. It should be cocked and ready to go. Technically. We'll see. It may do it's little not shootie thing. Yep, see. Now, the only way we found to fix that is to re-cock it all the way and then, (gun clicks) Yep. (sighes) It's a very deliberate
movement to unfold this thing, and I don't know, (gun fires) if there's something wrong with this, or, if, you know, I'm doing
something incorrectly, cause we don't have the
manual for it, unfortunately. So we gotta re-cock it. Make sure the safety is on. Unscrew the barrel. Any day. Take out my pocket knife. Pry the case out. Not cut myself. (knife scrapes on barrel) Just like that. And then I can reach into
my pocket and get my reload, and take my second shot
of my other assailant. So this isn't a self defense weapon. This is obviously something that was designed with
assassination in mind. So now that it's on the gun, it's loaded back up again. I don't think even if I were, I mean, maybe if I were a spy, this makes sense. If I were just somebody that
wanted to kill somebody, like assassinate somebody, I don't think that I would do that. And there are a whole bunch
of other guns out there that are probably better for the job. Like, you know, it being a
pen gun is cool and all, but like I said, it doesn't really serve a practical purpose. Out here on the range it
is a lot of fun, though, so if it works. (gun clicks) Like it didn't that time. And it's probably because I
didn't take the safety off. Rotate the collar, now. (gun fires) Hey! Missed the target again at 20 yards. Alright, so the pen gun
looks sort of pennie. Not really. You fold it open. And in order to load it you
have to unscrew the chamber. That comes all the way off. You can take your .22 Long Rifle, slide it into the chamber. Obviously don't muzzle
yourself at this point because it's now loaded. Re-thread that in place. Now if you were wanting to carry it, you could fold it back
down, just like that, or shoot it, maybe, if it will work. (gun clicks) Nope. Let's try that again. (gun fires) Wow! So this is doing a couple of things whenever the trigger is pulled. Now I'm gonna hold it in place. We've got a fired case in there. But when you pull the
trigger on this thing which means push the trigger to the rear, it's actually dropping the
whole thing down just a touch. So it's cocked there, and it actually just
drops down just a touch. And like if I hold still you can see the movement of the barrel. So like any type of practical accuracy is just completely gone. (barrel clicks) Do that one more time so
you guys can see that. So I mean the barrel is
like not fixed at all, and there are no sights, so hitting anything is just impossible. But ah, so I'm gonna stop shooting this because I'm getting tired of pulling things out of the chamber with a pocketknife. So ah, let's go finish up talking about the Braverman pen gun. Alright guys, so that is
the Braverman Stinger. Now street price on these
things is right about a grand. So if you happen to find it one you will be glad to know
that it's not an AOW, it's not an NFA item. This is just a standard pistol because it changes configuration. And as far as we're aware this
the only one that does that. It's the only one that
folds out into a handgun. So, if you find one you can
buy it without a tax stamp. It's not illegal to own. The ones that stay in
the pen configuration, and then they fire, those are the ones that are AOW's, and they require a five dollar tax stamp, and a waiting period
that the ATF determines which is usually like a lifetime. So, just pick up a Braverman Stinger, and if you are looking for one, head on over to Proxibid, check them out. They might have one because they do a lot of really
rare and strange firearms. And this would definitely
fall into that category. Anyhow, thanks to the guys
over at Schramms Auto Weapons for a letting me borrow
the Braverman Stinger, and we'll see you all later. Bye. (electronic music)
