usmarine0352_2005
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The police already have these in .68 caliber. This is a .70 caliber version, most likely so you don't accidently fill it with plain paintballs. Now they are making it for the civilian market for home defense and touting 2 big differences over a gun. One, you don't kill your attacker and two, kids hopefuly won't kill themselves if they get their hands on it.
I've always thought these were a good use for crowd control and to have them use a paint color just like paintball, so that you can stop a rioter or suspect and also mark them so that if they run into a crowd you can easily identify them.
However, that's in an open enviroment. I can tell you that if you shoot a pepperball inside an enclosed space like a bedroom you have a very good chance of getting blowback and incapacitating yourself. Do you want to take the chance that you'll also incapacitate your attacker while they in fact may not be incapacitated. A lot of people aren't effected by mace/OC, because they are drunk, high, or just aren't effected by it. If they aren't affected and you are, then you're in big trouble.
Fill a room with OC/Mace and see what happens if you're in it. It's not pleasant.
http://wtvr.com/2015/10/28/new-weapon-designed-for-home-defense-is-called-salt/
I've always thought these were a good use for crowd control and to have them use a paint color just like paintball, so that you can stop a rioter or suspect and also mark them so that if they run into a crowd you can easily identify them.
However, that's in an open enviroment. I can tell you that if you shoot a pepperball inside an enclosed space like a bedroom you have a very good chance of getting blowback and incapacitating yourself. Do you want to take the chance that you'll also incapacitate your attacker while they in fact may not be incapacitated. A lot of people aren't effected by mace/OC, because they are drunk, high, or just aren't effected by it. If they aren't affected and you are, then you're in big trouble.
Fill a room with OC/Mace and see what happens if you're in it. It's not pleasant.
http://wtvr.com/2015/10/28/new-weapon-designed-for-home-defense-is-called-salt/
New weapon designed for home defense is called ‘Salt’
POSTED 6:38 PM, OCTOBER 28, 2015
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — A startup is making a new kind of gun for home defense: one that incapacitates, rather than kills, the intruder.
Salt Supply Co. has designed a paintball-style gun that shoots pellets filled with pepper spray that rupture on impact. The Salt gun is designed to be a safe alternative to traditional firearms so that nobody gets killed, including children who might discover the gun and think it’s a toy, or a family member that’s mistaken for a burglar.
“We keep it in our nightstand because it’s not deadly, you don’t have to lock it up,” said CEO Adam Kennedy. “You should feel comfortable having this by your bed, because your kid can’t kill himself with this.” Kennedy said that he co-founded the startup with his Chicago neighbor Andy McIntosh. Both men travel a lot for work and they don’t want to leave their wives alone and defenseless in a neighborhood where shootings are frequent. But their wives didn’t want guns in the house. So they came up with Salt.
The $300 handgun is powered by CO2 cartridges and holds seven .70-caliber slugs. They contain ghost pepper extract encased in a ball that breaks on impact like an egg. He said it causes the lungs to constrict, as they would during an asthma attack. He said the shooter does not have to hit the intruder directly, since every shot releases a five-foot spray of pepper extract.