| Stun Guns are weapons that can incapacitate | | | | |
| crowds of people by sweeping a lightning-like | | | | What are Stun Guns made of? |
| beam of electricity across them. Stun guns | | | | |
| send electricity with a very high voltage and | | | | The design of the conventional stun gun is |
| low amperage to the assailant's body. The | | | | very simple in construction. They are about |
| effect of a stun gun temporarily disables an | | | | the size of a flashlight, and they work on |
| attacker for several minutes by disbalancing | | | | ordinary 9-volt batteries. The circuit also |
| his nervous system. | | | | includes a number of transformers to boost up |
| | | | the voltage in the circuit. It also includes |
| The function of stun guns is to interrupt the | | | | an oscillator and a capacitor. The capacitor |
| electrical signals that communicate messages | | | | builds up a charge, and releases it to the |
| back and forth from the brain to the rest of | | | | electrodes. The electrodes are two plates of |
| the body. It basically disrupts the | | | | conducting metal having a high voltage |
| communication system of our body by | | | | difference between them positioned in the |
| delivering a very fast high voltage current | | | | circuit with a gap between them. If somebody |
| combined with a low amperage charge to | | | | fills this gap with a conductor i.e. the |
| temporarily disable an attacker for several | | | | attacker's body, the electrical pulses will |
| minutes. When somebody presses the stun gun | | | | try to move from one electrode to the other, |
| against an attacker and hold the trigger, the | | | | dumping electricity into the attacker's |
| electricity stored in the stun gun is dumped | | | | nervous system. |
| into the assailant's nervous system and the | | | | |
| whole body signals get mixed up with noise. | | | | How do Stun Guns help us? |
| The muscles and brain are no longer able to | | | | |
| communicate because the messages are no | | | | It helps us in stopping social crime and |
| longer understood. This results in temporary | | | | defends ourselves from sexual assault, |
| imbalance affecting the nervous system and | | | | kidnapping, murder, robbery, and many more |
| the muscles in our body. Its specialty is | | | | terrors which happen more often than we would |
| that if the attacker is touching you, the | | | | care to imagine. Having the right protection |
| current will not pass to your body. Because | | | | can dramatically decrease your chances of |
| of its certain features the stun guns have | | | | being harmed during these occurrences. Stun |
| become one of the most effective and reliable | | | | guns protect us with the best self defense |
| non lethal weapons of our time. | | | | equipment. |