| Stun guns are an increasingly popular self defense | | | | will temporarily incapacitate a potential attacker |
| tool especially among women. Stun guns are not | | | | who is out to get you. |
| lethal like firearms and not lacerative like knives. | | | | What are other types of stun guns? |
| These stun guns have the ability to put down an | | | | There is a law enforcement edition of a stun gun |
| attacker with a simple push of a button. It is the | | | | called the Taser. Most popular among law |
| voltage in stun guns that can put down an | | | | enforcement personnel is the M-18 Taser stun |
| attacker. | | | | gun. A Taser stun gun contains two metal darts |
| What is a stun gun? | | | | that are connected to fine, threadlike wiring. Once |
| Traditionally, a stun gun is a handheld device that | | | | a Taser stun gun is fired upon a perpetrator, the |
| has a trigger and two metal prongs at the end of | | | | two darts stick to the person's body. The |
| the unit. One must make contact with the | | | | handheld unit of the Taser stun gun contains the |
| perpetrator by placing the two metal prongs of | | | | trigger that, once pulled, will send an electric shock |
| the stun gun anywhere on his body and pulling the | | | | through the wiring, through the darts, and into the |
| trigger. The stun gun is operated by a power | | | | person. The ultimate result will be that the |
| source provided usually by a 9 V battery. | | | | perpetrator will fall to the ground in agonizing pain. |
| How does a stun gun work? | | | | This particular stun gun is very effective in short |
| An electric shock will be delivered to the | | | | range (up to 15 feet) confrontations without the |
| attacker's muscles thus causing severe muscular | | | | user having to come into physical contact with |
| contractions that will produce lactic acid. Lactic acid | | | | the perpetrator. |
| is a byproduct produced by the muscles when a | | | | Stun batons are another kind of stun gun device. |
| muscle is being overworked from the effects of | | | | Stun batons are a fan favorite among security |
| the stun gun. Lactic acid will result when fatiguing a | | | | guards. With their extended reach, one can |
| muscle that is exposed to repeated electric shock | | | | maintain a distance between himself and the |
| from a stun gun. | | | | perpetrator. These stun batons have two metal |
| Furthermore, the electric shock from the stun | | | | strips on each side of the baton. If the |
| gun will interrupt the attacker's nervous system | | | | perpetrator attempts to grab the baton, he will |
| and minimize communication from the brain to the | | | | be electrified. Our stun batons come in two |
| peripheral nerves. This interruption in "nerve flow" | | | | flavors, 300,000 V and 500,000 V, and measure |
| as well as the electrifying effects of the stun gun | | | | 16" in length. |