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In addition, under US gun law, a receiver that is legally a machine gun cannot legally become semi-automatic. [4] There is no federal restriction on the purchase and import of machine gun parts kits (minus the barrel), however. [3] Parts kits are available for many firearms including the AR-15 and AKM variants. [5] [6] [7]
Though the decision didn't explicitly rule that stun gun bans are unconstitutional, it created doubt in laws forbidding their possession [86] which led to many legal challenges and subsequent legalization of stun gun possession in previously prohibitive jurisdictions. [90] As of 2022, some local jurisdictions retain bans on stun guns.
The M84 is the currently-issued stun grenade ("flashbang") of the United States Armed Forces and SWAT teams throughout the United States. Upon detonation, it emits an intensely loud "bang" of 170–180 decibels and a blinding flash of more than one million candelas within 5 feet (1.5 meters) of initiation, sufficient to cause immediate flash ...
Ordnance crest "WHAT'S IN A NAME" - military education about SNL. This is a historic (index) list of United States Army weapons and materiel, by their Standard Nomenclature List (SNL) group and individual designations — an alpha-numeric nomenclature system used in the United States Army Ordnance Corps Supply Catalogues used from about 1930 to about 1958.
An improvised stun grenade was created from the M116 series by US Navy SEALs, by replacing this fuze with an M201 series igniting fuze. This new weapon was nicknamed the "Flash-Crash". There are certain dangers from using the M116-based Flash-Crash however, mainly the metal body, from which potentially dangerous fragments may break when ...
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).
In last Tuesday’s ghost gun oral argument, several justices gave the impression that they are inclined to follow the law’s clear text, even where that text leads to gun regulation.
Many designs function like an elongated stun gun or a cattle prod, requiring the tip to be held against the target and then manually triggering a shock by a switch in the handle. Some more sophisticated designs carry a charge along the shaft's entire surface, administering a shock on contact.