NON-LETHAL guns have to be accurate, otherwise they risk killing people
rather than merely incapacitating them. The first study of its kind has found
that more than half of all non-lethal guns are so wildly inaccurate that they
usually miss people-sized targets.
In a study due to be published in January, researchers from the Los Angeles
Sheriff’s Department and Pennsylvania State University tested 79 different types
of munitions fired to injure a target. These included rubber and plastic
bullets, cloth “bean bags” full of lead shot, and capsules of pepper and tear
gas, which are increasingly popular.
The researchers told…
