Decades before the body cam, former silent star Francis X. Bushman had the idea of attaching a small 16mm camera underneath the barrel of a pistol that would film upon firing to record images of the scene. When first proposed in 1934, its stated goal was to record license plates as police fired after fleeing vehicles, or for hunters to be able to prove that they had big game in their sights that wound up running away, but by this prototype was complete, its focus had shifted from an investigativ