Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
37 mm flare or "1.5 inch" caliber is the specification for a common launching system for non-lethal and less-lethal ammunition. Such launchers are also often known as "gas guns" due to their original use by police for launching tear gas projectiles.
Cobray 37 mm launcher 37 mm 1 aluminum barrel, retractable stock [12] Defense Technology 37 mm Launcher 37 mm model dependant single-shot and multi-shot versions [13] DPMS M-37 flare launcher 37 mm 1 [14] Federal Labs 37 mm rotary gas gun 37 mm 6 rotary drum magazine, top-folding stock [15] Federal Labs 37 mm single-shot Federal Riot Gun: 37 mm 1
The ARWEN 37 is a less-lethal launcher [1] which fires a variety of 37mm less-lethal munitions which includes direct impact batons, chemical irritant delivery munitions and smoke delivery munitions. The ARWEN 37 has 5-round rotary drum magazine.
Western launchers are primarily either the 37 mm flare caliber intended for civilian and law enforcement use, or the larger military 40 mm caliber. This is intended to prevent civilian-legal flare projectors being used to fire lethal military ammunition, since lethal rounds are not manufactured in 37mm caliber.
LAPD officers fired launchers in 74 separate incidents last year, Tuesday's report said. But critics say referring to them as "less lethal" is a misnomer because the weapons have the potential to ...
The ARWEN ACE is a breech-loaded less-lethal launcher which fires a variety of 37mm less-lethal munitions which includes direct impact batons, chemical irritant delivery munitions and smoke delivery munitions. "ARWEN" is an acronym for "anti riot weapon enfield". As of 2001, all ARWEN trademarks and patents are owned by Police Ordnance Company Inc.
The Federal Riot Gun (FRG) is a firearm made by Federal Laboratories Inc., designed to fire non-lethal munitions.Its ammunition includes 37 and 38mm baton and tear gas rounds.
Examples of destructive devices include grenades, grenade launchers, artillery weapons, [1] and firearms (2) any type of weapon by whatever name known which will, or which may be readily converted to, expel a projectile by the action of an explosive or other propellant, the barrel or barrels of which have a bore over one half of an inch (.50 ...