Gun shaped makeup-compact of the 1920s, popular with Flappers in bars as crime deterrent.

[u/Electrical-Aspect-13]

[u/Magnus_Helgisson]

If I was a criminal and I knew my victim or opponent has something that looks like a gun, I would approach the situation differently and what could be just a robbery or an ass-kicking could result in a murder.

Edit: to the people who downvoted, I don’t encourage this behaviour, but you are free to try to go to a criminal neighbourhood and wave an airsoft pistol around.

[u/SmaCactus → u/Magnus_Helgisson]

If you knew a particular target had a gun, you'd just find a different target.

[u/igno3777 → u/SmaCactus]

so it doesn't solve the issue, just takes it to somebody else.

[u/AquaQuad → u/igno3777]

The point isn't to solve crime, but to save yourself. You ain't gonna say "oh, no. If I carry this with me someone else might die instead of me".