Essay about Heart Attack Gun

Have you ever imagined a gun that's able to simulate a heart attack? A weapon designed to discuse a murder as a natrual death? An untraceable killing poison? Well, this is all true when it comes to the heart attack gun which was invented by the CIA. In 1957, the CIA announced the heart attack gun. The heart attack gun is a Colt 1911 modified to shoot shellfish poison and cobra poison darts into the body, leaving the effect of a heart attack. Then, in the autopsy it appears that the person was killed by a heartattack, showing no traces of the poisons or murder. The heart attack gun is highly dangerous, extremely complex, and the perfect ideal weapon used for undercover work.

The heart attack gun was arguably the perfect weapon created. In the article The CIA’s Secret Heart Attack Gun, by Military.com, it talks about how the gun can practically be untraceable. For instance, the gun is so deadly that it “can penetrate clothing and leave nothing but a tiny red dot on the skin. On penetration of the deadly dart, the individual targeted for assassinatin may feel as if bitten by a mosquito, or they may not feel anything at all”(Military). This is important, because it shows that the person shot with the dart wouldn’t even notice they were shot. Then, after they are dead there wouldn't be any sign of a dart entering their body. In addition, after the dart has made contact with the body, the “dart completely disintegrates upon entering the target. The lethal poison then rapidly enters the bloodstream causing a heart attack”(Military). This is scary, because the damage disappears. You won’t see anything, since the dart disintegrates leaving no trace. Last but not least, the article stated that “once the damage is done, the poison denatures quickly, so that an autopsy is very unlikely to detect that the heart attack resulted from anything  other than unnatural causes”(Military). This is scary, because even a highly skilled autopsy machine states that a person was killed from a heart attack, but really it was a murder. The heart attack gun is an extremely dangerous gun, because of how little there is to trace it. You could easily mistake a murder for a heart attack thanks to the heart attack gun.

The heart attack gun has an extremely sophisticated modification to it, allowing it to be untraceable and extremely deadly. In the article The CIA’s Poison Dart Gun Nearly Brought Down the Whole Agency by W Are The Might, talked about how stealth the heart attack gun can be. The article even stated that the CIA invented “a pistol [that] can fire a poison dart 328 feet, kill a man before he knows he has been hit, and leave no clue as to what killed him”(We Are The Mighty). This is important, because a person could be murdered and the person murdered wouldn't even know what was happening! They could think that they are just dying naturally, when they are actually being murdered! In addition the article The CIA Secretly Created an Undetectable “Heart Attack Gun” by We Are The Might, talked about how the heart attack gun was “used against the U.S. political enemies and beyond...They found it in a specially-designed poison, engineered for the CIA. Only a skilled pathologist who knew what to look for would ever discover the victim’s heart attack wasn’t from natural causes. To deliver the poison, the injection was frozen and packed into a dart”(We Are Might). This is important because the gun was already being used to assassinate the CIA’s targeted victims. Another thing to see, is that only highly skilled and smart pathologists would know what happened to the person. Otherwise, practically every other person and autopsy machine would think that the person died of a natural cause. In the article, Was There Really a CIA Heart Attack Gun by OddFeed stated that the only evidence of muder from the Heart Attack gun was “a small red dot where the dart entered. Unless you were specifically looking for it, you were unlikely to find it, even when doing an autopsy”(OddFeed). This is important, because there would be no traces detectable of the murder except a tiny red dot that nobody would be looking for. So, the heart attack could murder someone, and nobody would know. The heart attack gun is an extremely syfisticated weapon, that is the perfect gun to frame a murder for a natural cause.

The heart attack gun is arguably one of the stealthiest weapons invented. In the article The CIA’s Heart Attack Gun by Military.com, it said that once hit by the dart, “The lethal poison then rapidly enters the bloodstream causing a heart attack. Once the damage is done, the poison denatures quickly, so that an autopsy is very unlikely to detect that the heart attack resulted from anything other than natural causes”(Military). This is important, because it shows that the dart disappears immediately after impact with the target. So, nobody would see the dart hitting the person leaving no traces. In addition, according to the article The CIA Secretly Created an Undetectable “Heart Attack Gun'' by We Are The Mighty, which stated that after being hit, the dart “disintegrated and the frozen poison inside would begin to melt, entering the bloodstream and causing the cardiac episode”(We Are The Mighty). This shows that the darts poisons take immediate action, and affects the cardiac system. This is what then leads to the effect of the Heart Attack, and the murder is now framed as a heart attack, with no evidence otherise. Finally, in an article by The New York Times, titled Colby Describes C.I.A. Poison Work, it tells that the heart attack gun “could shoot a dart 100 meters and was “almost silent””(New York Times). This is an important fact, because whoever fires the gun could be far away from the target, so they aren’t even a suspect of the crime. Also, the gun is silent so nobody would hear a gun fire or anything to let on that there was a murder going on. The person would die to a heart attack everyone would think, and there would be no evidence of any other causes of death. The heart attack gun is a highly skilled and advanced weapon, that is arguably one of the most advanced weapons today.

The heart attack gun is an extremely syphsiticated, advanced, and a deadly weapon, that could murder somebody without leaving a trace. By using the heart attack gun, a murder could be disguised as a natural heart attack death, and nobody would think othewise. While a murder takes place, everyone would think that the person died to a natural heart attack. The CIA invented the heart attack gun way back in 1957, which was 64 years ago. Imagine what other insane weapons they have come out with that haven’t been announced to the public? The heart attack gun alone, is one of the deadlies weapons invented, making a murder look like an innocent heart attack without leaving a trace.