I want a Sweeping stun gun to target crowds of deer!

[papau]

Sweeping stun guns to target crowds are now available - and I have for another few weeks a concealed carry permit!!! (I am waiting to see if it is renewed)

:-)

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996014

Weapons that can incapacitate crowds of people by sweeping a lightning-like beam of electricity across them are being readied for sale to military and police forces in the US and Europe.

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But human rights groups are appalled by the fact that no independent safety tests have been carried out, and by their potential for indiscriminate use.

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A weapon under development by Rheinmetall, based in Dorf, Germany, creates a conducting channel by using a small explosive charge to squirt a stream of tiny conductive fibres through the air at the victim (New Scientist print edition, 24 May 2003).

Meanwhile, Xtreme Alternative Defense Systems (XADS), based in Anderson, Indiana, will be one of the first companies to market another type of wireless weapon. Instead of using fibres, the $9000 Close Quarters Shock Rifle projects an ionised gas, or plasma, towards the target, producing a conducting channel. It will also interfere with electronic ignition systems and stop vehicles.

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HSV Technologies of San Diego, California is also working on stun and vehicle-stopping shock weapons with ranges of over 100 metres. And another company, Ionatron of Tuscon, Arizona, is due to supply a prototype wireless vehicle-mounted weapon to the US Department of Defense by the end of 2004.
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[slackmaster]

1. Japanese and Icelandic researchers are going to test it for safety

On whales.

:evilgrin:

[papau]

2. EVIL EVIL EVIL

:-)