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On September 29, 2016, Washington D.C. announced that it intends on repealing its ban on stun guns in response to a lawsuit. [117] The new law regulating stun guns for persons 18 years or older took effect on May 19, 2017. [118] Metropolitan Police Department issued a statement about the legality of stun guns. [119]
The Drive Stun does not incapacitate a subject but may assist in taking a subject into custody." [53] The UCLA Taser incident [54] and the University of Florida Taser incident [55] involved university police officers using their TASER device's "Drive Stun" capability (referred to as a "contact tase" in the University of Florida Offense Report).
According to a press report, the jury "found that Arizona-based stun-gun manufacturer Taser International should have more effectively warned police that Taser shocks were potentially dangerous." [82] July 22, 2008, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, a 17-year old aboriginal teen died after being tasered during a standoff. The teen was carrying a ...
Dec. 2—Question : Are stun guns legal now ? Answer : Not yet, but soon. A state law that takes effect Jan. 1 repeals Hawaii's ban on the possession and sale of electric guns, commonly known as ...
The children, who were all hit by a Taser or stun gun by school-based police officers, also called school resource officers, were 12 to 19 years old when the incidents occurred. They were shocked by a Taser or stun gun for mouthing off to a police officer. For trying to run from the principal’s office.
The company behind the Taser brand of stun guns said Thursday that it plans to put its weapons on drones and sell the devices as a way to stop shootings in Amer Stun-gun maker says Taser-equipped ...
Oct. 30—Santa Fe County sheriff's deputies are getting 90 new electronic stun guns with twice the range of the ones they have now. County commissioners unanimously approved the roughly $400,000 ...
One type is a conductive energy device (CED), an electroshock gun popularly known by the brand name "Taser", which fires projectiles that administer the shock through a thin, flexible wire. Other electroshock weapons such as stun guns, stun batons, and electroshock belts administer an electric shock by direct contact. [citation needed]