[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: This is the latest information provided by TASER International to the SEC (see here if this post is not clearly legible) for the year ending December 2013: “Over 17,000 law enforcement agencies in nearly 150 countries [???] have made initial purchases of our TASER brand devices for testing or deployment” – much […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: Taser International says 16,000 police agencies “rely on” tasers for their officers; it is unclear if this is in the USA, in the USA and Canada or throughout the world (their words are intentionally vague: “About 16,000 law enforcement agencies internationally use Tasers”). This is a very brief fact-check on the number of police […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: In an upbeat report for potential investors, with no real details, we read that TASER announces multiple order of smart weapons from international customers, to the value of $5.8 million. The shipment will be completed by the end of 2013. Most of TASER’s foreign orders came in from “the Middle East and […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: An investors’ site reports TASER Inc.’s statement that it has just has just booked “multiple” new orders for $5.8 million from international customers … “”We are encouraged to see continued expansion of TASER programs in the Middle East and Asia regions.” (WHICH “Middle East and Asia regions“? … ]] The Motley Fool, […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: The taser manufacturer is planting trees to celebrate the 100,000th life saved by tasers. This number- 100,000 – has been determined by a “miraculous” timer on the taser.com website that adds another life saved every 30 minutes, which means 48 a day, 336 a week, … 17,482 a year. Since they started […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: In a press release destined to boost TASR stock prices (traded on the NASDAQ exchange), TASER International announces new sales orders in the fourth quarter of 2012: Knox County Sheriff’s Office (TN) for 285 X2s; an International order for 600 X2s; a U.S. military order for 500 X26s; and an International order […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: TASER shares – TASR is on the Nasdaq exchange – are a bell-weather, many owned by the corporation, valued at $340-million. With sales up 54% over the last year, and no “bad news” , which never seems to get through to the stock market analysts, now is a good time to buy […]
[[Summary / Comments : Canterbury police are firing Tasers once for every five times they point them at an offender – and they now have more of them available to use, 99 instead of the previous 70. The increase is part of a national plan to have a Taser and a gun in every first-response […]
[[SUMMARY /COMMENTS: Two elements in the press release merit attention: (1) 5 significant orders of taser products, of which 2 by unnamed “international law enforcement agencies” (why so much discretion?). A larger proportion – about 16,000 – of the 5 sales-orders are for cartidges, which sell at about $27 each ($432,000). (2) A completely spurious […]
[[SUMMARY /COMMENTS : A case of “false information and data-manipulation” typical of TASER Inc.: This “new site” – taser.fr – has been on-line for some 4 years, so it’s hardly being “launched”. The layout has been revamped and the information misleading at the extreme: (1) the real-time “lives saved by taser” (80,000!); “taser safer than […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS : In a typical upbeat press release TASER Inc. announces new international orders for its weapons and ammunition (as well as US sales). To whom?vThe clients are not identified, although we are told “tne order was for 377 of its X26 electronic stun guns, while another was for 60,000 cartridges [which seems […]
[[ SUMMARY / COMMENTS: In a blatant distortion of the truth – the corporation is extremely loose with statitisics – TASER Inc. launches a “Saves Counter”, estimating the “Lives Saved From Potential Death or Serious Injury With TASER ECDs” on TASER.com. Every half hour or so, a new life is saved. Site also repeats the […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: Announcing an international order and typically respecting client confidentiality (Why?), a TASER press release announces “the purchase of 60,000 TASER® cartridges as an international follow-on order to support a continuing multi-year TASER® X26™ electronic control device program. Further customer information is not being released at this time. Also AXON and other taser […]
[[Summary / Comments : A TASER Inc. press release announces “two significant follow-on orders for TASER(R) X26(TM) electronic control devices (ECDs) and related accessories.” -not naming the countries involved. Particularly interesting is a statistic in the middle of the release (in bold): “More than 16,200 public safety agencies in 107 countries rely on TASER(R) electronic […]
[[ Summary / Comments : Note this is a google translation from the Portuguese: the original text follows these notes. The important issue is that 190 tasers are part of the hardware provided to military police in the Paraíba – a state on the Atlantic coast in northeastern Brazil … In brief, confirming that Brazil […]
[[ SUMMARY / COMMENTS: Taser International Inc. announced Monday it has received an order for 550 stun guns from the South Korean National Police Agency as that country seeks to expand the use of such devices.]] Biz Journals http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stories/2008/12/29/daily8.html Taser International Inc. announced Monday it has received an order for 550 stun guns from the […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS : TASER Inc. President Tom Smith announced: ““After the success of the Swiss operational trials, technical and medical reviews, we are elated to see Switzerland approve our TASER brand conducted energy weapons,” said Tom Smith, President of TASER International, Inc. “Switzerland also becomes the first European country to authorize the use of […]