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The Look-at-Me Submachine Gun (LAM) is a purpose-built, non-lethal firearm engineered to attract and hold the attention of a target through combined auditory, visual, and tactile stimuli.

Design

The LAM’s design lineage traces to the Russian PNM (ПНМ, “Посмотри На Меня”) and, earlier, the Romanian UA (“Uite Aici”). Its engineering emphasizes maximum nuisance value while avoiding lethal trauma; materials, barrel geometry, and muzzle configuration are optimized to increase the perceived loudness of discharge by at least threefold and to produce an exaggerated muzzle flash, thereby amplifying the weapon’s attention-grabbing effect.

Ammunition for the LAM consists of solid projectiles manufactured from a specialized, rubber-like compound. Projectiles are launched at an approximate muzzle velocity of 5,000 km/h. Despite high launch velocity, the projectile’s material properties dissipate nearly all kinetic momentum on impact, preventing penetration and minimizing blunt-force injury. Contact with a target produces a distinct, irritating ticking or pricking sensation without producing marks or permanent tissue damage; projectiles are engineered to dissolve on contact with water.