POWAY, Calif. — Knees bent and elbows locked, Christian Ellis stood in a swirl of gun smoke, clutching the base of a 9 mm Glock 17.
It's the same firearm carried by police officers across the country, but seconds before firing, Ellis pulled out an orange slide and snapped it onto the weapon. A metal sphere now hung in front of the muzzle.
When he fired, the bullet buried itself into the sphere, sending it hurtling toward a target down range.
"It knocks the person down. It's going to break some ribs," said Ellis, chief executive of Alternative Ballistics, the maker of the device. "It's going to feel like a professional baseball player swung a hammer and hit you in the chest."
But it's unlikely to kill.
After a year of controversial police killings that have inflamed cities across the country, police departments have embarked on an urgent search for new tools that can spare lives while protecting their own.
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Right. Like the cop is going to put that on before he pulls the trigger.
ReplyDeleteOh now they want to use non-lethal weapons...
ReplyDeletegee what ever happened tot he ones they were supposed to be making back in the 80's and 90's??? where they boasted about them, talked and raved about them???
Yet never used or implemented them?
Only to want o try now because they keep getting shot at by people who have had enough...
Cops should just walk away, criminals lives matter. The public wants cops to not shoot thugs, so be it. Then lets see them cry for a cop when the criminal is killing, or raping their girlfriend.
ReplyDeleteYour sickening. Criminal or not ! All lives matter! I bet you think a man stealing hotdogs to feed his family after exhausting all resources deserves to die! Pathetic p.o.s!
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ReplyDeleteOh now they want to use non-lethal weapons...
gee what ever happened tot he ones they were supposed to be making back in the 80's and 90's??? where they boasted about them, talked and raved about them???
Yet never used or implemented them?
Only to want o try now because they keep getting shot at by people who ARE CRIMINALS...
March 12, 2015 at 10:08 AM
Fixed that for you idiot!
Not everyone who shoots at a cop has a record. Most but not all. And I have no record and will kill one in a heartbeat if I feel the need. I'll take my chances with 12 not 6!
DeleteI would rather be shot with a clown nose being pushed by a 9mm bullet than with just the 9mm bullet itself. Please aim at my center of mass and not my head.
ReplyDeleteyou going to give them to the crooks and lawbreakers too?
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