Two British police forces are considering introducing stun guns to protect officers from the threat of criminal attack, it emerged today. The Metropolitan Police hopes the "taser" gun, which ...

The controversial Taser stun gun was fired for the first time by police in Britain but didn't work. Tasers, which deliver a 50,000-volt electric shock, have been on trial in five police forces ...

Attorneys for former Harris County Deputy Garrett Hardin have suggested the alleged pain he felt as an accused shoplifter grabbed his Taser and pulled the trigger was justification enough to shoot and ...

Neighbourhood police officers will be given stun guns as part of a force's plans to tackle knife crime. Northamptonshire Police is to train 50 extra officers on how to use a Taser, bringing the ...

An officer can then be heard saying "Taser, Taser, Taser" - normal police procedure before firing one of the stun guns. Mr Wright is seen to get into his car and drive away, while the same officer ...

In 2023, more than 12 million BB and pellet guns ... sale and possession of non-powder guns. Thirteen states – including New York, Wisconsin and California, where the three minors were killed by ...

In the early 2000s, when police began buying the stun guns in significant numbers, Taser International marketed them as a “non-lethal” or “less lethal” alternative for controlling ...

An audio-video forensics expert has called into question the integrity of Palo Alto police conduct following a March 15 incident in which police shot a man three times with Taser guns.

The Connecticut Office of Inspector General determining that an officer acted justifiably in discharging his firearm at a ...

Fort Pierce Police have new information about an officer-involved shooting. Investigators say 62-year old David Taylor pointed a taser at officers ... the other officer's gun.

27 stun guns and more than 1.6kg of cannabis. “Concerningly, a large number of these were all set up and ready for sale,” Robertson said. Police recovered more than 1.6kg of cannabis during an ...

A robbery suspect was armed with what turned out to be a BB gun when he was fatally shot by El Paso police officers during ... The officer fired his Taser electric stun gun, hitting Hobbs, but ...