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Friday, February 6, 2009

HowStuffWorks "How the TASER Shotgun Shell Works"

How the TASER Shotgun Shell Works

by Jonathan Strickland



There are times when law enforcement officers or military personnel need to subdue a person or group of people without using lethal force. They rely upon a variety of tools and tactics to achieve this goal. Some of those tools include items like riot shields, batons and tear gas. One less-than-lethal tool is the Thomas A. Swift Electric Rifle, or TASER....

With that in mind, TASER introduced a new concept in ECD technology -- the TASER eXtended Range Electronic Projectile (XREP). The XREP looks like a high-tech shotgun shell. That's not by accident -- TASER designed the XREP so that military or law enforcement officers could fire one from a standard 12-gauge shotgun. But instead of firing pellets or a slug, these shells fire a small, self-contained TASER device capable of delivering the same NMI effect as a handheld TASER gun.

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http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/gadgets/other-gadgets/taser-shotgun-shell.htm

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