Mobile Technology

iPhone gun game slammed by campaigners

(telegraph.co.uk) - The Bang!Bang! application can be downloaded from the iTunes App Store for 59p, and is listed as suitable for children aged nine years and over because of its “mild realistic violence”.

The software developers behind the game say that the application will allow users to “experience the sweet release you can only get from a finely crafted firearm – a firearm so smooth and well-balanced it feels like an extension of your own hand”.

Users are able to choose from a variety of weapons, including a “gangsta edition” with chiselled-off serial number, and a gun with a silencer to dampen the sound of the gunshot the iPhone or iPod touch emits whenever it is “fired”.

But anti-gun campaigners have criticised the application, accusing it of glamourising gun culture. “This is just another sign of businesses putting profits before responsibility,” Claudia Webbe, chair of an independent advisory group for Operation Trident, told the Evening Standard. “This is hugely irresponsible in a climate when we are trying to get guns off the streets.

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