Taser is getting some competition.

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A little competition is good for everyone.

Looks like it has a rail on top? Maybe throw a x4 scope on it. :)
 
Maybe not....

I saw the video & website a few weeks ago.
To me, it seems like a tacky Taser knock off, :uhoh:

I think Id stick with the US made Taser line. ;)

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The question is whether the Phazzer works like the Tazer or like a stungun.

A Tazer doesn't just shock you. The pulsed electric signal hitting the body is designed to work on the voluntary muscles and not the involuntary muscles. When a person gets Tazered, the signal causes uncontrollable muscle contractions on the order of 19 contractions per second. The effect of these musculature contractions is to use up the stored energy in the muscle cells, just like heavy repetative work with no rest will tire out muscles to the point of exhaustion.

Zap someone with a Tazer for several seconds and the affected muscles simply "run out of energy". When you stop zapping them, the muscles are so exhausted that the person quite literally can't move until the muscles have rested enough to recover.


Stunguns don't work with this same technology. They can be painful, but they don't have the same effect on muscles that the patented Tazer does.

Too many people simply assume that any such electric shock device has the same effect. They do not.


So...to me the question is "how does the Phazzer work?" I haven't found anything on it to be able to answer this question.
 
Am I the only one irritated by Taser's sense of restricting the long reach cartridges to LEO's? They aren't firearms, aren't regulated, why the distinction? Bothers me.
 
Because...it's just a good idea, you know.

Besides...as a civilian I'm not into defensive weapons of sub-par accuracies when it comes to defending my life or the life of my family. I'll take the accuracy of any gun I own over the accuracy of any Tazer-like weapon any day, regardless of the range.

And by "sub-par accuracies", I'm talking about the inherent accuracy problems with a weapon which must get two probes, with wires attached, actually ON the target in order to be effective as compared to the accuracy inherent with a handgun which essentially hits exactly what it's pointed at when you pull the trigger.

This link has some revealing information on hit/miss and probe spread for Tazers. Start with page 48 and read through page 66:

https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/222769.pdf

At 5 feet, the probe spread alone averaged nearly 10 inches for the Tazer. The Stinger and New Stinger cartridges were about half that.

At 10 feet, Tazer probes were about 19 inches. Stinger and New Stinger about half that.

At 15 feet, Tazer probes were about 26 inches, with Stinger and New Stinger about half that.

See where I'm going with this?
 
Still isn't it ours to decide instead of theirs? I don't carry a taser or any other less lethal hardware, I carry a .357 magnum. But I chose it. I could have chosen a .22LR or a .25ACP or a .454 Casull... But it was up to me.
 
Personally, I don't think a Tazer has much value against an active, mobile assault situation. They're probably great for immobilizing a potential attacker when you have time to actually consider which choice of weapon to use and start bringing it into play before rapid movements start.

Yeah, I can think of lots of scenarios where a Tazer would work to my advantage. But when seconds, or split seconds, count I don't want to have to depend on a wired dart system which has to get not one but two darts actually ON the perp while we're both maneuvering around during an attack scenario. And the fact that the dart divergence is significantly greater as distance increases doesn't sit well with me on a system which also has a significantly increasing accuracy problem with range.

The police can have that extra 5 feet of range. They're more likely to be in scenarios which better suit its use anyway.

Still...it is galling that there is a difference in range between civilian and police equipment.
 
I am not sure I understand how this devolved into whether or not the TASER is the best self-defense system for civilians or not, as I do not see that premise in the OP.

I have heard some rumbles about some agencies switching to the Phazzer, but a quick perusal of their site... not to mention the name "Phazzer" in the first place... seems to show that they're basically a cheapo TASER knockoff.
 
As it is not the duty of a civilian to force compliance with commands, I do not see why I would ever want to carry or deploy one.
 
As it is not the duty of a civilian to force compliance with commands, I do not see why I would ever want to carry or deploy one.
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except when someone is attacking you, in which case a potentially lethal response is a command to leave you and yours alone. non verbal, perhaps, but none the less.. :neener:
 
I just have this image in my head of Patrick Stewart commanding "Set Phazzers to stun!"
 
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