Pick Guns
Subtitle: Lock Picking for Spies, Cops, and Locksmiths
By: by John Minnery.
Publisher: Paladin Press
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Boulder, Colorado
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 121
ISBN-13: 9780873645102
Copyright date: 1989
Subjects: Pick guns.; Lock picking.
Description: This book tells how pick guns work and how to use them and traces their development from their inception to the revolutionary devices of today. Included are the original patents by Epstein, Segal, Moore, Cooke and others, as well as info on pick guns used by the FBI and intelligence agencies. Photos depict improvised devices made out of coat hangers and clothespins. For academic study only.
Table of contents: title: Title Page; title: Copyright Page; title: Dedication; title: Acknowledgements; title: Introduction; title: Chapter One - Let’s Rap About Locks; title: Chapter Two - The Father of the Pick Gun; title: Chapter Three - Mr. Majestic; title: Chapter Four - The Segal Patent; title: Chapter Five - Genesis of a Pick Gun; title: Chapter Six - The Miskill Patent; title: Chapter Seven - The Moore Patent; title: Chapter Eight - The Crasnianski Patent; title: Chapter Nine - Agency Lock-Opening Device; title: General Description; title: Attachments; title: Operation; title: Battery Recharging; title: Battery Replacement; title: Chapter Ten - The Cooke Patent; title: Background of the Invention; title: Summary of the Invention; title: Brief Description of the Drawings; title: Description of the Preferred Embodiment