Sales To The Public

One could bet that if an item has been put into production, you can find it somewhere on the internet or through your local shopping centers. EBay, Craig list, or browser searchers can uncover a large amount of products for sale. Consumers can purchase most, if not all of the weapons used by local law enforcement agencies from the world wide web. Mace pepper guns, stun batons, and stun guns are only a few of many less lethal weapons one can purchase from the web site worthprotectionsecurity.com.

You may be asking yourself, what is the issue with having these items in the hands of the public. In the hands of an average citizen, there is nothing wrong. But once you put them in the hands of a criminal, the table turns around. How much easier would it be to rob an innocent bystander or hold someone hostage if you had a weapon that could incapacitate their movement? And what if someone decides to use the very same weapons against those who use them to control people, such as the police. Police do not have protection at their everyday disposal to shield themselves from attacks by a less lethal weapon. There are endless possibilities how one could use less lethal weapons to their advantage with criminal activities because of sales to the public.


Taser sales to public worry officers

Hope for Less Lethal Weapons

My hopes for the future, by means of less lethal weapons, is that our technology becomes more advanced, our weapons become more efficient, but further most, that our technology does not fall into the wrong hands to be used for illegal purposes. Needless to say, less lethal weapons technology can and will be used for many purposes that are not proactive.

Technology has come a far way from the first less lethal technology of the batons or night stick of the early 1900’s. The turn of technology has advanced through the realms of personal protection by way of sprays to combative weapons that can take out an entire groups of individuals with the push of a button. US military has already began to intertwine less lethal technology into its use in field work. And its only a matter of time until other combative nations do the same. Unfortunately, other nations will only foresee the astronomical impact less lethal weapons technology could have on future eradication of human life, by turning its practical sense of less lethal, to a deadly reality.

Silent killer technology, by way of acoustic devices, direct energy weapons, electro magnetic weapons, etc., can easily be used by terrorist organization to hinder opposing military threats or citizens alike; at a lengths greater than 300 yards. These implications will change the way terrorist organizations attack their non-believers and the direction in which wars are fought. And its only a matter of time until these car sized weapons become a deadly side arm for personal use.


Field Use Of Less Lethal Weaponry

Have Less Lethal Weapons Found a New Use?

Movie myth has come alive! The once pronounced Ghost Busters “Slimmer” has leaked its inspiration onto less lethal weapons as Sticky Foam. The once pronounced gag of the less lethal weapon industry, is making a comeback into other realms than weaponry. The hydrocarbon solution has found a new home in the protection of facilities by being imbedding into steal doors. If these doors are to ever be breached, the hydrogen solution, when mixed with O2, will reseal the door, in addition to covering and incapacitating its close range attacker(s). I guess you can say it’s a door that fights back.

Other less lethal weapons technology has leaked its way out into different uses. Technology from the TASER X26 has moved into a hunters reality. Taser International, Inc. has converted the wireless projectile of a taser, into a circuit-less non-lethal 12-gauge shotgun. The implications on the use by hunters could pose handy in the hands of those who do not want to kill. This weapon could give the same rush of hunting, without the death of an animal. Of course, this weapon would not be a complete waste in the hands of law enforcement either. With this weapon, law enforcement official can reduce injuries and it could prove to be an alternative use of force.



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eXtended Range Electro-muscular Projectile

To Toy or Not to Toy

Lethal weapons turned into toys is a common concept. How about a toy turned lethal weapon? According to NewScientistTech.com , our US army is funding a toy manufacture, Lund and Company Inventions, to use their firing technology in their propel toy rockets to produce a new lethal / non-lethal weapon. Lund and Company Inventions makes toy rockets that are powered by burning hydrogen. The US Army has proposed placing that same technology into a lethal weapon, in turn making it possible to speedup or slowdown the projectiles velocity.

The new weapon has been coined the Variable Velocity Weapon System or VWS. The light weight .50 caliber weapon will be loaded with rubber bullets (aka Laughing Bullets ) in addition to lethal rounds. This new technology could be an effective tool, not only for our military soldiers, but street officers as well. The advantages of being able to switch from lethal to non-lethal rounds with the click of a button could save precious time officers need when attempting to properly detain an offender. Needless to say, it could change the way officers employ their weapons.

Corrections

According to Lombardo, one third of correctional officers consider danger as the most dissatisfying part of their job. Every correctional officer is frightened by the idea of hundreds of inmates attempting to overthrow prison guards with brut force and numbers. How does a facility stop 500 trapped criminals from rampaging through a correctional facility? It would be unethically to let tower guards target random inmates with their lethal rifles and wrong to expect guards to overpower the 50 to one ratio of inmates to officer. The only answer to end such a conflict is the use of less lethal weapons. Chemical agent weapons such as tear gas and pepper balls can incapacitate a crowd of unruly inmates in minutes. In doing so, possibly saving the lives of the dozens of correctional officer.
Additional research by Kauffman has found that guards not only consider danger dissatisfying but they are horrified to the extent of violence in prisons. With this being assumed, would guards be quick to jump on the idea of deploying a less lethal weapon, knowing it will not kill the inmate? My biggest concern about using less lethal weapons in a correctional facility is the over exposed use by guards, in an attempt to display their coercive power over inmates.


What would you do in such a situation?