Key point: You can protect yourself with a good stun gun while also avoiding really hurting the other person. There are many tools available for self-defense, but when you really need to stop an ...

There are many tools available for self-defense, but when you really need to stop an attacker but want to do so without causing any permanent damage, there is no better tool than a stun gun. Stun guns ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — A federal judge has decided that Rhode Island’s law against residents owning stun guns and Tasers is unconstitutional. U.S. District Court Judge William Smith ruled in favor ...

In general, a stun gun is intended to be used to get someone in custody, not to create serious bodily harm or death. A stun gun manufacturer said its devices are lighter than a firearm and have a ...

It wasn't supposed to be this way. When first pitched to police a decade ago, stun guns and particularly Tasers — the brand most widely used — were heralded as a way to deal with violent individuals ...

While writing my book The Future of the Gun I interviewed a lot of firearm designers at major gun companies, and a handful of mavericks using the software program SolidWorks to build guns of the ...

Lethal police shootings in Ferguson, Mo., and St. Louis this month, and a chokehold death in New York City in July, have been met with a question: Why didn’t the officers use a Taser? Although the use ...

Brent Woodall of Salmon Creek tossed a black TASER-like device to the ground before surrendering to Portland police June 20 after an alleged crime spree that spanned Washington and Oregon, according ...

German defense company Rheinmetall has unveiled a new rectangular, pocket-sized stun grenade for military and law enforcement. About the size of a smartphone, it's also designed to be easily ...

The California Supreme Court set strict limits Thursday on the use of stun belts to restrain defendants in the courtroom, ruling that the electric shock devices -- which deliver an eight-second jolt ...