"When it gets nasty - get down to business."

Watch Video: Carrying a Concealed Machine Gun — The Gun Industry Continues to Innovate Deadly Weapons For a Massacre

A supporter of GunGuys sent us this video from the "ShotShow" in 2008, the gun industry's show and tell event where new products (read deadly weapons) are unveiled. The following video demonstrates a prototype concealed machine gun that folds up into your back pocket, and in a rather chilling fashion, looks like a flashlight that when you "walk the dog, take the garbage out, check the mail" can be used in case any trouble arises on your way to the mailbox.

Although the video claims the company, "Magpul Industrial Corp," only created the concealed machine gun just to experiment with what it could create and innovate, make no mistake about it that if the gun industry feels they can make money by marketing such a weapon, they would.

Basically, all the company would have to do to legally sell the weapon is convert it from a fully automatic machine gun into a semi-automatic assault rifle which the gun industry routinely does to a host of military-style weapons. ("Semi-automatic" assault weapons simply mean that one pull of the trigger fires only one bullet, versus "automatic weapons" or machine guns that fire multiple rounds as long as the trigger is squeezed).

The gun industry already sells a host of assault pistols and easy to conceal handguns that use high-capacity ammunition magazines that can hold up to 30 rounds. According to the gun industry profiteers, why not improve on the idea and create an assault rifle that doubles as a flashlight, "just in case you need it?" Why settle for just a deadly handgun?

Author Tom Diaz, a senior policy analyst for the Violence Policy Center and author of "Making A Killing," says that increased lethality is the nicotine of the gun industry. The gun industry's new and improved products are designed, manufactured, and marketed to make firearms deadlier. The industry's "innovations" are what sells guns and consumers, just like in other industries, seek out more powerful, sleeker, and compact products.

Most disturbing to us is the last line in the video when a young man demonstrates the compact machine guns and says:

"When it gets nasty? Get down to business."