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Russian Man Aims To Reinvent "Taser" Technology
Lanxon writes "A Russian man is hoping to overhaul the technology within Taser-type weapons — transforming them from single-shot, short-range devices that stun for a few seconds, into more effective long-range, rapid-fire weapons — by modifying the wires and the type of shock they generate, reports Wired. Non-lethal weapon developer Oleg Nemtyshkin's design uses bare wires, rather than the insulated wires favored by Taser and other stun gun makers. These wires weigh only about one sixteenth as much as insulated wire, providing less drag on the darts and improved accuracy. Nemtyshkin demonstrated his bare wire technology with a prototype – 'Legionary" — in 2001. His latest version is the S5, and a video of the weapon in action shows it firing repeatedly — almost as fast as the trigger can be pulled."
Although I think the technology is a bit interesting, I shrug every time I hear about these so-called non lethal weapons. In my head that translates into it is not lethal, so there is less of a barrier before it gets used (and from what I can hear these electroshock weapons are pretty dangerous after all anyway). I know culture is different in the USA, where the police carry guns. I live in Norway though, where law enforcement officers generally don't carry guns (!), except when they move out on criminals that are known to be armed. In the rare cases where they do use pepper spray, it sparks up debate in the newspapers. If they shoot someone, that definitily gets some attention. Electroshock weapons are not used here. The net result seems to be a non-violent society, where people feel they can walk amongst law enorcement officers without feeling alienated because they carry weapons of some sort.
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Mobs will be led by people with carbon fibre jacket liners and helmets.
So? They'll just make them illegal.
In Germany for example, it's illegal to protect yourself against police brutality, especially during demonstrations and protests.
This includes leather clothing, protection against tasers, protective googles, etc. These are all classified as weapons - defensive weapons but weapons none the less.
Might refer to this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuXR0F6ZQzc
That's their fault for allowing themselves to fall into "excited delirium".
One that hath name thou can not otter
Of course it will immediately be adopted across police departments because as we all know tasers are perfectly safe. It is interesting to note when officers fire their pistols, they continue firing until the ammo is depleted. There is no reason to believe this practice won't continue with semi-automatic taser guns because many taser deaths were due to multiple hits from several officers. Of course these occurred because the suspect would not stop flailing about on the ground due to being repeatedly hit with electricity (officers refer to this as resisting). That is merely the unfortunate side effect of electricity causing involuntary muscle contractions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuXR0F6ZQzc
Camping on quad since 1996.
17a, Abs. 1, Versammlungsgesetz
http://dejure.org/gesetze/VersG/17a.html
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schutzwaffe
Better not run into police if they are in a bad mood and you're out with a few of your biking friends.
Actually it's only illegal DURING demonstrations/protests.
Actually, this also includes any public event or assembly, during the event or on your way there; not only demonstrations/protests.
http://dejure.org/gesetze/VersG/17a.html
Because you don't need protection, except when you are one of those "protesters", who express themselves by throwing stones, burning cars and beat the shit out of bystanders.
Sounds good on paper. Unfortunately, cops more often than not are the ones who turn violent or incite violence, even during peaceful protests.
One of the Nautilus men gave me a simple gun, the butt end of which, made of steel, hollow in the centre, was rather large. It served as a reservoir of compressed air, which a valve, worked by a spring, allowed to escape into a metal tube. A box of projectiles in a groove in the thickness of the butt end contained about twenty of these electric balls, which, by means of a spring, were forced into the barrel of the gun. As soon as one shot was fired, another was ready.
We've been waiting for it much longer than flying cars, but Captain Nemo's pulse rifle is finally coming to market (well, probably).
Nemtyshkin's next project, the Leyden Gun, will deliver a short shock with lasting effects. The Leyden Gun is the size of a paintball rifle, with a magazine of thirty rounds. The projectiles are simple needles rather than elaborate barbed darts, as they do not stick to the target but administer a single jolt from a high-voltage capacitor.
On the other hand...
[A]nd finally, it was he who had killed the convicts with the electric balls, of which he possessed the secret, and which he had employed in the chase of submarine creatures.
Admittedly, some of the precedents are a bit ominous.
So, where can I preorder one of these?