Wireless Tasers Fired from Shotguns

The new "XREP," for "extended range electronic projectile," can be fired from a standard shotgun, making it possible to send a Taser stun bolt through the air.

Taser has turned its weapon into a connected series of six darts arranged in an arc. The company says the device can be extended in a chain or stacked "like Lego," depending on the needs of the user.

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The first electrode hooks on to the target, the second electrode falls and makes contact elsewhere on the body, completing the circuit and activating the shock. It can blast someone as far as 30 metres away, and, unlike the current stun guns, whose shock lasts five seconds, the XREP lasts 20 seconds, enough time to "take the offender into custody without risking injury to officers."

Tasers: the next generation [TheStar.com via Crime Scene KC]

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