United States: It has been found that flies can be destroyed with salt guns by blasting high powered salt from it.
All types of creepy-crawlies, including house flies, bluebottles, moths and even spiders can be destroyed with this comfortable gun.
Conventional fly-swatters often leave smears of dead flies after they have been squashed.
But, the makers of salt gun claimed that this remarkable device needs only a quick brush for an absolute clean-up.
The pump-action fly-killer has already been purchased by almost 100,000 people in America, and the device is now available online in UK, for a price around £35.
The plastic shotgun uses compressed air to eject a pinch of table salt at the intended target. The device has a capacity to hold-up enough salt for 50 shots.
A spokesperson of the manufacturers said that this is a completely safe way to take out an annoying bug.
Since ordinary granulated table salt is used, it would never break the tender skin of even small children, even though the company is not recommend for firing it at people.
According to manufacturers, it is an extremely effective and safe method for killing pesky mosquitoes as well as moths.

Video on the functioning of Salt gun