[[SUMMARY /COMMENTS : “Tasers” – it’s not clear whether these are TASER Inc. products or the term is used in the generic sense – are illegal in Australia outside of the police. They are readily available on the black-market in Sydney: in bars and clubs and are increasingly being carried as security weapons by drug-dealers, […]
[[SUMMARY /COMMENTS : Note: this article concerns stun-guns, so-called “generic tasers” – examples are given of costs of $20 only for a “taser”. Criminals are increasingly choosing illegally-acquired stun guns as their weapon of choice, a Sky News investigation has revealed. The devices are sold openly on market stalls in the Far East – and […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: This post of of interest because the taser is increasingly becoming a weapon of choice of serious criminals, in this case a gang in Los Angeles County committing multiple felonies: “More than a dozen victims were bound, stunned with a Taser and terrorized at gunpoint,” according to the D.A.’s statement… In the […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: Tasers are increasingly becoming a weapon of choice for organized crime: “The prosecutor said Wright had pleaded guilty to the two offences and a further charge of possessing a Taser stun gun and police-style batons, but there would have to be a trial of issue over his basis of pleas.”]] Bradford Telegraph […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: On 3 February the Swiss police arrest 6 men aged 20-25 from Lyon in France leaving Geneva by train with 42 tasers “42 pistolets à impulsions électriques Taser” (and masks of Ben Laden & Lenin and “Scream” !). The tasers were, according to the Swiss border police purchased in Thailand in a […]