---
title: "This Powerful Credit Card-Sized Gun Fits Neatly Into Your Wallet"
date: "2017-08-03"
modified: "2017-08-03"
authors:
  - name: "Jared Keller"
    job_title: "Former Managing Editor"
    link: "https://taskandpurpose.com/authors/jaredkeller/"
url: "https://taskandpurpose.com/tech-tactics/lifecard-credit-card-wallet-gun/"
categories:
  - "Gear Reviews"
  - "Guns"
  - "Tech & Tactics"
  - "The Gear Locker"
  - "Weapons"
---

# This Powerful Credit Card-Sized Gun Fits Neatly Into Your Wallet

![](<https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/19041817-1.jpg>)

Here at Task & Purpose, we have a deep, abiding appreciation for all manners of firearms-related ingenuity, whether it’s the 19th century-inspired MA Loader or the double-barreled pistol [designed](<https://www.maxim.com/gear/double-barreled-pistol-smartphone-ideal-conceal-2016-03>) to resemble your average smartphone. But when it comes to combining gunsmithing with the logic of everyday carry, the [LifeCard](<https://www.trailblazerfirearms.com/products/>) from North Carolina's Trailblazer Firearms may take the cake.

![](<https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/image-placeholder-title-3432.jpg>)

The LifeCardPhoto via Trailblazer Firearms

Touted as “the last gun you’ll leave behind,” the LifeCard is a single-shot, single-action .22 designed to resemble an innocuous credit card. Fashioned from lightweight anodized aluminum with a steel trigger and tilt-up barrel, the 7 oz. pistol folds up into a 3.375 inch by 2.215 inch card that, despite its half-inch thickness, can fit with relative ease inside your back pocket or average wallet.

![](<https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/image-placeholder-title-3433.jpg>)

The LifeCardJared Keller

With ammo storage for four rounds, Trailblazer hopes that the LifeCard — which, incapable of firing when folded, is in compliance with the National Firearms Act, [according to Guns.com](<https://www.guns.com/2017/08/02/trailblazer-firearms-introduces-folding-lifecard-22-single-shot-pistol-photos/>) — will pack a punch as a last-ditch firearm in sticky situations, a modern, more civilized update to, say, [the garter gun of the Wild West](<https://www.womensoutdoornews.com/2017/03/wild-west-firearms-women/>) or [the turn-of-the-century Chicago palm pistol](<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfSzadHtGAc>).

“Trailblazer Firearms fully intends to spearhead innovative new firearms products starting with the LifeCard, available later this month,” Trailblazer president Aaron Voight said in a statement. “New designs and true innovation have been the exception and our goal is to be the pioneer laying new trails for gun enthusiasts, designers, and manufacturers.”

![](<https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/image-placeholder-title-3434.jpg>)

The LifeCardPhoto via Trailblazer Firearms

Yeah, sure, whatever — but how effective would this $400, uber-hyped firearm actually be in a situation that calls for a stealthily concealed weapon… or a quick draw? The product is so new that reports from the urban battlefield haven’t hit the Internet yet. But as of this writing, [not every gun enthusiast is convinced](<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2NbMGFp2eU>). Myself, I’m waiting till it [comes in bone, with Cillian Braille lettering](<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD5N-le_1es>).

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## Author
Jared Keller is the former managing editor of Task & Purpose. His writing has appeared in Aeon, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the New Republic, Pacific Standard, Smithsonian, and The Washington Post, among other publications.

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