Sometimes you want to carry your gun in peace, but people keep drawing attention to your piece.

This very issue plagued Kirk Kjellberg, the creator of Ideal Conceal, a gun that folds up to look like a smartphone.

"A boy spotted me in [a] restaurant and said loudly, 'Mommy, Mommy, that guy's got a gun!' And then pretty much the whole restaurant stared at me," Kjellberg told NBC News.

He developed Ideal Conceal to avoid those awkward situations.



The pseudo-smartphone-turned-gun is a .380 caliber pistol that Kjellberg told NBC News is about the size of a Samsung Galaxy S7 phone with a protective case.

Though it won't be available until later this year, Ideal Conceal is turning heads already.

More than 4,000 people have expressed interest in purchasing the gun, Kjellberg told KARE, an NBC affiliate in Minnesota.

Naysayers, however, may worry about the safety of a weapon disguised to look like something else.

"In America, we have lots of children in contact with pistols already," Kjellberg explained to NBC News. "For me, it's not the gun. It's the people. So if you have a pistol and you have children anywhere near you, it's your responsibility to lock that stuff up and keep it away from children."



Perhaps to his point, in a social experiment conducted in Iowa, of eight children who were put into a room full of toys and an unloaded pistol, only the children whose parents were gun owners did not touch the weapon.

NBC News reports that the Department of Homeland Security has contacted Kjellberg about the pistol, and he planned to provide officials with X-rays of the gun so airport screeners can tell the difference between the product and a cellphone.