I was seeing ads for this pistol all over the place for a while. The "Legal in 50 states" claim is not something I have researched. There was a time that Mace was illegal in Wisconsin - had a bad effect on the cheese - but that was many years ago. (Decades ago?)
It is basically a CO2 pistol that shoots either hard rubber bullets, or pepper balls. I suppose the hard rubber bullets would be available everywhere.
The Tactical Rabbi decided to put the weapon to the test, which you can see in the one minute video below. I think it might work with a combination of hard rubber and pepper balls. And in places where you can't have a firearm, at least you would have something.
This is the Tactical Rabbi video Can this PISTOL Stop an Attacker?!? #byrna
Yeah, this will get you shot with real guns by both criminals and cops. It might scare off a dog, but not a determined dog. Might scare off a racoon, but trash pandas, from my personal experience, are much tougher than people believe (I tried drowning one that attacked me, it lasted 6 minutes under water and still came up angry and pissed. Shot another one 10 times in 'critical mass' areas with a .22 and all it did was snarl and get even more pissed.)
ReplyDeleteLess Lethal is only useful if More Lethal is available. Even the vaunted taser or stun gun work about %50-60 percent of the time and can be invalidated by neural issues, heavy clothing or copious amounts of street pharmaceuticals.
What stops someone? Penetrating deliveries of kinetic energy and force. Usually accompanied by a bad case of heavy metal poisoning. Multiple times. Until the threat is immobilized. Because single-shot stops to the attack aren't reliable unless you're using something measured in big calibers.