Taser

It's a sad fact that mass shootings have become a common occurrence in the US. Defense tech company Axon has announced what it says will be a new means of resolving such incidents quickly and relatively safely, using a drone equipped with a Taser.

The City of London police force recently began equipping some of its frontline officers with Tasers. The move was the first of its kind in England and Wales, and criminologists used the shift to carry out a major experiment on how the public respond to visibly armed officers.

​A sensor designed for law enforcement can alert an officer's body cameras to start recording automatically when a weapon is drawn. The Axon Signal Sidearm from TASER International is a wireless sensor that attaches to an existing firearm holster and integrates with the company's wearable cameras.

​​Although they're generally safer than guns, conducted electrical weapons still have been implicated in deaths by cardiac arrest. In an effort to keep that from happening, researchers recently altered a CEW so that it could both deliver an electrical charge, and monitor the victim's heart rate.​

Last week, creative tech studio Chaotic Moon demonstrated CUPID, a drone equipped with a stun gun that can incapacitate people with an 80,000 volt shock. The studio says the stunt was aimed at raising awareness of the extent to which technology is outpacing our ability to regulate and live with it.

Scottsdale Inventions, LLC has invented a pair of high-tech handcuffs that could deliver electric shocks to prisoners.

Metal Storm and TASER are developing less-than-lethal ammunition for the tiny MAUL 12-gauge launcher. The tiny 800 gram rapid-fire MAUL fits to an assault rifle, and shoots five bullets which deliver the same effects as a handheld TASER.

With an integrated taser, video camera and protective forearm armor, the BodyGuard is a stun device designed to intimidate suspects first and incapacitate them second.

Stun-gun manufacturer TASER has announced a Wildlife Electronic Control Device.

The TASER Shockwave is a fully modular system that effectively bunches six TASER X26 stun guns together to cover a 20-degree arc with 25-foot cartridges and stop an advancing crowd in their tracks.

When we first wrote about the new Taser X3 stun-gun a couple of weeks ago, details on what it looked like were scarce. Images have now been released along with a bit more detail about the new features.

A new Taser that fires three shots before it needs recharging is soon to be released.