Step aside tasers, stun guns, and even particle weapons. This stuff’s right out of Star Trek, with a little reality in physics.
Two types of laser gun are being developed for use by police officers in the US, it emerged today.
The next generation of police weaponry could include a laser which produces a “plasma flash bang” to stun and disorient crime suspects, New Scientist magazine reported.
read more…Another laser-based prototype is described as a “the first man-portable heat compliance weapon of its kind” by the US agency funding its development.
A third device – a radio-frequency stun weapon – has also secured funding from the research arm of the US Justice Department, the National Institute of Justice (NIJ).
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