Paintball gun on steroids crafted for crowd control.

AuthorWilliams, Robert H.
PositionTECH TALK: A TIP-SHEET OF THE LATEST GADGETS

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Beware bad guys:

This weapon will knock you down from as far away as 80 meters and will tag you for subsequent identification and apprehension.

Weapon developers at Picatinny Arsenal, N.J., have acquired a non-lethal, but still potent, paintball gun that is a compressed air fired semi-automatic that dispatches non-toxic 8.5 gram, .68 caliber projectiles down range with about double the force as the kind neighborhood kids play with.

The balls are filled with paint and bismuth, a white, crystalline, brittle metal with a pinkish tinge,

One of the main...

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