Repton writes "Thanks to the Second Amendment, even the elderly have the right to keep and bear arms. The problem is that many of the guns out there are a bit unwieldy for an older person to handle. However, the inventors of the Palm Pistol are planning to change all that with a weapon that is ideal for both the elderly and the physically disabled. In a statement submitted to Medgadget, the manufacturer, Constitution Arms, has revealed the following: 'We thought you might be interested to learn that the FDA has completed its "Device/Not a Device" determination and concluded the handgun will be listed as a Class I Medical Device.' Physicians will be able to prescribe the Palm Pistol for qualified patients who may seek reimbursement through Medicare or private health insurance companies."pa href="http://idle.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/04/0433234amp;from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=08/12/04/0433234"/a/ppa href="http://idle.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/04/0433234amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/zx9v7TxLuEtudD27sfY5DkQ8ifw/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/zx9v7TxLuEtudD27sfY5DkQ8ifw/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/LX-ymg4Na1A" height="1" width="1"/

pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/palm_pistol.jpg" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2" width="500" height="255" style="display:block;" /Ohhh yesmdash;be very afraid. Remember the a href="http://gizmodo.com/5069173/palm-pistol-grandma-is-going-on-a-toodle-shootin-rampage"Palm Pistol/a ergonomic handgun from a few months back? Well, you will be interested to know that it has been designated as a medical gadget by the FDA./p pIn a statement submitted to Medgadget, the manufacturer, Constitution Arms, has revealed the following:/p blockquote pWe thought you might be interested to learn that the FDA has completed its “Device/Not a Device” determination and concluded the handgun will be listed as a Class I Medical Device, exempt from 510(k) Pre-Market Notification in accordance with 21 CFR 890.5050 “Daily Activity Assist Device.”/p pWe have now submitted an application to the CMS contractor Noridian for a DME (Durable Medical Equipment) Coding Verification in order to be assigned an HCPCS code. Once assigned , physicians will be able to prescribe the Palm Pistol for qualified patients who may seek reimbursement through Medicare or private health insurance companies./p /blockquote pOk, right to bear arms , rights of the disabled and elderly, blah blah...but prescription handguns? Damn...I can't even get my contacts covered through my insurance company. My guess is that this will not end well. [a href="http://www.medgadget.com/archives/2008/12/medicare_to_cover_prescription_handguns.html"Medgadget/a]/p br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=791bffe110e2bd14770bacfa05f2bc24p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=791bffe110e2bd14770bacfa05f2bc24p=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=791bffe110e2bd14770bacfa05f2bc24" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=w2A3LJW6"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=120" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=5Lmcb685"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=wgFGYD5d"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=wgFGYD5d" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=d92PBz5w"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=d92PBz5w" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~4/AjNszymxhV8" height="1" width="1"/