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Taser XREP delivers wireless shocks from 100 feet away
This Taser XREP can deliver a wireless electric shock from over 100 feet away, and from the looks of it, you don't want to be on its receiving end. Its Neuro-Muscular Incapacitation (NMI) is the same disabling effect delivered by wired Taser weapons. Loaded into an ordinary 12-gauge shotgun, it's designed into a 14-gram package small enough to fit into a gun barrel, yet it can travel at 300 feet per second.
As the self-contained XREP wireless Taser round exits the shotgun barrel, three fins pop out to stabilize it as it flies through the air. Its four electrodes on the front each have a barb that can penetrate clothing and embed itself into the body of its victim. It will continue shocking its victim for 20 seconds, giving the officers enough time to apprehend the suspect. Field testing for this scary weapon begins this fall, but it probably won't go into widespread use until a year later. We'll behave ourselves, officer, but please, just point that thing somewhere else.
By WD0FIA at 7:21 AM ON 07/12/07
VP Dick Cheney is expected to endorse this product. As President of the US Senate he will use the shotgun TASER daily.
By karlgee at 10:59 AM ON 07/12/07
Thats really cool if your not on the business end of it! How much will rounds cost? Does it hurt more if you are closer?
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By robertmilt at 12:22 PM ON 07/12/07
It is about time, a non-lethal weapon was long over due for Law enfocement
By ayoboy at 1:28 PM ON 07/12/07
Great! So, now criminals don't have to worry about killing you before they rob you. They can just taze you and take your wallet/purse.
By koslinglaw at 4:37 PM ON 07/12/07
(1st Comment) Our local Texas law inforcement just got federal money for the plain-jane tasers. Ethical instructions of use come in another package to be sent when their first non-violent victim or their family sues them. It seems that when the different branches of military trains alot of folks to kill and then they go home, there isn't a big demand for killers. It doesn't take much to pick up that these retirees from the military find a home in our local precients. They love new toys and look forward to using them.
By josh885 at 12:54 AM ON 07/13/07
The police can't even use the tasers with the barbs connected to wires that only shoot 26' responsibly. Giving them this will be a disaster. Right now the primary thing the police use the taser for is not saving lives but pain compliance. I.E. do what we say (even though in most situations you have no legal obligation to do so) or we torture you with the taser until you do. The taser can be lethal and is only intended to be used in a situation ware you would be legally and morally justified in shooting the person with a firearm. Instead the police view it as completely non lethal and deploy it on unarmed people who's only crime was waiting more than .5 seconds to comply with the orders a police officer just barked at them.
By koslinglaw at 6:32 PM ON 07/18/07
(2nd Comment) josh885 July 13, 2007 posting was acurate. From Pensacola, Florida I hear of a lady going through a large store parking lot and who witnessed what she thought was child abuse. She looked for a policeman and found one to report the aledged crime. The policeman was annoyed with the women and told her to buzz of he didn't have time for her. She got irritated with that and told him she could find another policeman that had the time to hear her. She saw another policeman and walked away from policeman #1 to policeman #2. Policeman #1 yelled at her to stop. Because she was reporting a crime she ignored policeman #1. He tazed her three times for refusing to obey his order. She bounsed of the asphalt every time she was tazed. Here was a good woman, doing her citizens duty and she was justified in seeking someone who would hear her in a matter of child abuse. Policeman #1 has been fired. I suspect the woman is in litigation against the Pensacola PD and the city for hiring thugs. This is a live issue in every city in America.
By arahigihs at 12:34 AM ON 07/22/07
What is this country coming to? We whine, complain and fabricate stories to support our own fanciful views about the very people that have been hired to protect us. I find it very hard to believe that police will taze someone who merely annoys them. I have relatives and friends in law enforcement and have had many discussions with them about this very issue. They are trained to use verbal diplomacy, then non-lethal force, if necessary, before resorting to more aggressive forms of physical violence. Yes, even here in backwoods Idaho where the average firearm to citizen ratio is approximately 5 to 1 (not exact numbers, most likely an exaggeration). The media only reports the few bizarre cases so that those of you who need something in your pathetic lives to complain about have some topic of conversation in your dull and dreary day.
By Precious Jewel at 10:49 PM ON 02/12/08
I am being stalked. Someone told me I can buy a taser gun for $200. Can anyone please tell me where I can find taser guns?
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By swmmn at 3:58 PM ON 01/01/09
you would think that after the number of loonys running into schools and shooting kids has risen, guns would be made less available to the general public? seems wise?
No, hasnt happened. Its America.
By Docker17 at 10:21 PM ON 08/02/09
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