[ Vugrek Cell Phone Gun ]
Hi guys, thanks for tuning in to another video on ForgottenWeapons.com.
I'm Ian McCollum, and I am here today at the
Croatian Police Museum outside Zagreb, Croatia,
taking a look at some pretty cool
historical firearms and interesting firearms
that they have here in their collection.
And today we have a pretty cool gun from Mirko Vugrek, a Croatian arms designer.
He originally developed the Agram 2000,
and [cell rings] he originally developed the [cell rings] sorry, hold on.
Yes ... OK ... alright ... OK fine.
Alright, they are telling me that what I need to be telling you guys about
is the cell phone gun that Mirko Vugrek made, not the Agram 2000.
But I'm going to start with this really quick. I have a separate video on this thing's whole history.
But what's really interesting about the Vugrek family is
there were some pretty talented designers, and had things gone a bit differently
they could have ended up being really legitimate firearms designers.
In fact ... there were two sons. Mirko the father, and then Mirko and Ivan the sons.
And Ivan the son got out of jail after this debacle, went straight,
and is now apparently a quite talented wind turbine designer.
While the other son, Mirko, went on to build these.
Alright, so what is this thing? Well, these started showing up
being seized by police in the mid-2000s, like circa 2007 maybe 2008.
And there was an investigation that ensued,
and it eventually led back to Croatia and the Vugrek family.
But let me show you what this really is.
Of course it's got a standard ... old school cell phone style case.
This is a "Nokitel" and this whole menu is fake, it's just printed.
So what you do here (this one's a bit broken on the back
and you can actually see it has four barrels),
we are going to unscrew the fake antenna to reveal the fourth barrel.
There we go, so there's your fourth barrel.
And there is this distinctive lever at the bottom.
So we are going to (there we go) rotate that 90 degrees.
And then pull it to cock, there we go, click.
And you then slide the top off the side.
And what do we have here, but four .22 rimfire barrels.
And right here we have four .22 rimfire firing pins.
So you load four cartridges in there, slide this back in place, there's a nice strong detent.
And the 4, 5, 6 and "Info" buttons have popped up.
See those there, and they now act as four independent triggers.
Bang, bang, bang, and ... that one doesn't want to go off. There we go.
So actually a really clever, well-built, sort of clandestine criminal firearm.
... Like I said at the beginning, what's interesting about the Vugrek family
is they had real talent as designers.
These guns are remarkably nice for what they are.
The Agram 2000 is perhaps one of the most clever, intricate,
and highly engineered of the Croatian Homeland War submachine guns.
And they didn't necessarily have to end up on the wrong side of the law.
It's really interesting to think what might have happened with that family
if the Agram 2000 had been chosen as the winner
of the Croatian Army's submachine gun tender and things had gone a bit differently.
But they didn't, and Mirko Vugrek the younger
comes out of prison and starts building these guys.
So the cell phone guns would not be the last time that Mirko Vugrek the younger
ended up in jail for making clandestine firearms.
The first time was with the Agram 2000.
The second time was over these after he got raided circa 2008.
Went to jail again for a couple of years, got out of jail,
and went right back to making illicit guns again.
And the third time he was making the gun that ... is marked and called the R9 or the RP9.
That was another kind of mystery gun that showed up
across the underground criminal markets in Europe.
And we'll talk about those in a later video,
because I want to get one of those and show it to you guys as well.
So, hopefully you enjoyed the story of Mirko Vugrek and his Nokitel cell phone gun.
Thanks for watching. And a big thanks to the Croatian Police Museum
for giving me access to this as well as the Agram to show to you guys.
If you find yourself in Zagreb and need something interesting to do,
definitely consider stopping by the museum to check out all of their cool exhibits.
Thanks for watching.