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How does one use a Surefire pen as a defensive weapon?

1. Grab pen firmly.
2. Plunge into terrorist's eye socket.
3. ?
4. Profit!

boomerang wrote:1. Grab pen firmly.
2. Plunge into terrorist's eye socket.
3. ?
4. Profit!

You should have given us a disclaimer before that one! I almost spewed my soda water all over the computer.

Why spend 100 bucks when you could just use a Metal Pen from WalMart? Or are they worth it? Can I take them through TSA?

GO to WalMart or Office Depot or any place that sells office supplies and buy a Zebra F-701. Only plastic part is a little ring/bushing around the clicky part. The rest is stainless steel. The cost is much less.

I carry one as part of my EDC and I always carry one when flying.

IIRC, Tak Kubota taught techniques that used a Montblanc pen before developing the plastic kubotan.

I was in 8th grade when an Arkansas State Trooper who lived in our small town came and did a little talk about what his day was like, the equipment he used, mindset for self-defense, etc.

He showed us his sap and shot-filled gloves (this was a long time ago! ), metal-lined "leather" ticket book, baton, etc. The thing that stuck with me most was his demonstration that you don't need any specialized "weapon", when anything at hand will do: he pulled the Cross pen out of his pocket and stabbed a phone book with it. (Well, it was a stack of phone books... as I said, it was a small town: we only used three digits for phone numbers.)

I had an interesting exchange with a TSA officer at JFK a few years after 9/11. He was giving me grief over my money clip that had an itty bitty knife in it, so I asked him for it, and snapped the blade off, OK, now we're legal....then I asked him "what about the pens that most business folks are carrying in their shirt pockets/briefcases, you know they can do a WHOLE lot more damage than that little, piddly blade on my money clip...?" He was pretty much dumb-founded...like he hadn't thought of that before...he just said "I'm following regulations..." and off I went, with my disabled money clip and a briefcase full of "assault pens." LOL!

Don't be giving officials any ideas of more thing to restrict us from bringing on the planes!!!

PUCKER wrote:...and off I went, with my disabled money clip and a briefcase full of "assault pens." LOL!

Does that mean that the pen is mightier than the sword?

Your key ring can be a very effective weapon also. The object is not the weapon the mind of the user is.

Went to Walmart bought a 6 Dollar Zebra Pen.

A buddy of mine (USMC, retired) calls things like that, "Weapons of Opportunity." Even a sharpened wooden pencil can do some serious damage.