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Since their inception TASER devices have saved hundreds of thousands of lives and prevented unnecessary deaths. Haaving a less than lethat option is a critcal part of the Spear and Shield system and essential as you lool at the use of force paradigm. Taser has released the Pulse, a subcompact device that is easy to conceal. Many citizens are choosing to add this to their every day carry aresanal as well as carry them where firearms are not authorized.
The History of TASER
Jack Cover a NASA researcher, began developing the Taser in 1969.By 1974, Cover had completed the device, which he named after his childhood hero Tom Swift (book "Thomas A. Swift's electric rifle", by "Victor Appleton". The Taser Public Defender was released in 1976, but because it used gunpowder it needed to be registered as a firearm. This led to a lack of adoption and the project was tabled.
Taser International CEO Patrick Smith cites the catalyst for the development of the device was the "shooting death of two of his high school acquaintances" by a "guy with a legally licensed gun who lost his temper". In 1993, Rick Smith and his brother Thomas began to investigate what they called "safer use of force option[s] for citizens and law enforcement". At their Scottsdale, Arizona, facilities, the brothers worked with the "...original Taser inventor, Jack Cover" to develop a "non-firearm Taser electronic control devices.
HOW DOES A TASER WORK?
TASER® devices utilize "electro-muscular disruption (EMD)" technology. TASER® devices use a powerful 50,000 volt electrical signal to completely override the central nervous system and directly control all muscles. This EMD effect causes an uncontrollable contraction of the muscle tissue, allowing the TASER® device to physically debilitate a target regardless of pain tolerance or mental focus. TASER® devices are specifically designed to stop even the most elite, aggressive, and focused combatants. Rather than simply interfering with communication between the brain and muscles, TASER® EMD systems directly tell the muscles what to do, resulting in muscle spasms, until the target is in the fetal position on the ground. The TASER® device provides for maximum safety for both the user and the assailant by bringing dangerous situations quickly under control before force escalates to lethal levels. There have been hundreds of reports that TASER® devices disabled attackers and probably saved the owner's life.
Upon firing, compressed nitrogen projects two probes 15 feet at a speed of 180 feet per second. An electrical signal transmits through the region where the probes make contact with the body or clothing. The result is an instant loss of the attacker’s neuromuscular control and any ability to perform coordinated actions. It uses an automatic timing mechanism to apply the electric charge. This cycle ensures that the nervous system of the target does not recover instantly to allow him to remove the probes. If you are a law enforcement official, this gives you a chance to place the target under custody. If you are a citizen, simply pull the gun back, run, then call the police. It is highly unlikely the assailant will be able to walk, much less run after you.
HOW CAN THE TASER® DEVICE BE SO EFFECTIVE YET NON-INJURIOUS?
The TASER® device does not depend upon impact, pain or body penetration to achieve its effect. Its pulsating electrical output interferes with communication between the brain and the muscular system, resulting in loss of control. However, the TASER® device is non-destructive to nerves, muscles and other body elements. It simply affects them in their natural mode. More importantly, no court of law has ever ruled that a death has ever been directly attributed to the TASER® device.
WHAT HAS TESTING REVEALED REGARDING THE TASER® DEVICE?
Anesthesiologist and specialist in medical electronics, Dr. Frank Summers, MD of St. Joseph’s Hospital, Orange, California, directed tests of volunteers at St. Joseph’s in 1971 and 1974, after the invention of the first TASER® device. Dr. Summers stated, "We conducted this [volunteer test] in the operating rooms at St. Joseph’s Hospital. We had an assembly of cardiovascular surgeons, cardiologists. We had a real [TASER]. We tested extensively and made movies. The tests were impressive. We monitored all parameters of physiology, including electrocardiographs. The tests did not produce any lethal effects and we found that the background work that had been done did indeed pan out in practice."
DOES THE TASER® DEVICE AFFECT THE HEART OR A CARDIAC PACEMAKER?
The TASER’s output is well below the level established as "safe" by the federal government in approving such devices as the electrified cattle fence. In a medical study of electronic stun guns, Dr. Robert Stratbucker of the University of Nebraska Medical Center confirmed that the T-Wave does not interrupt the heartbeat or damage a pacemaker. Any modern pacemaker is designed to withstand electrical defibrillator pulses that are hundreds of times stronger than the TASER® device's output. The TASER® device current of 0.3 joules is well below the 10-50 joule threshold above which cardiac ventricular fibrillation can occur.
When an X26C/P, M26C, X2 C2, Bolt or Pulse Conducted Electrical Weapon is used in self-defense, the weapons may be deployed and left behind providing the Purchaser a window of opportunity to get to safety and call law enforcement. TASER International will replace the TASER X26C/P, M26C, X2 C2, Bolt or Pulse weapons free of charge, with the same product or a like product, at TASER International’s option, if the Purchaser provides, within one year following the event, the following information to TASER International:
Purchaser is responsible for any expedited shipping or handling costs for the replacement weapon. A replacement product assumes the remaining warranty of the original product or 90-days from the date of replacement, whichever provides longer coverage to the Purchaser.
TASER International’s Safe Escape Product Replacement Guarantee is not available or applicable:
