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STUN GUNS PROHIBITED

Sally Ramage | 01.09.2005 06:51 | World

Stun guns are prohibited and consumers cannot buy them in Hawaii,Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, WisconsinAnnapolis, Baltimore, Chicago, Howard County, Philadelphia, and Washington.D.C.
Yet TASER is selling stun guns to the public as well as to official government agencies. House of Commons Hansard Written Ministerial Statement on 27th January said there were 6099 firearms officers in England and Wales. So where are all these stun guns?

TASER INTERNATIONAL, Inc.
7860 E. McClain Drive, Suite 2, 85260
(Zip Code) Scottsdale, Arizona
(Address of principal executive offices)
(480) 991-0797

part two
by
Sally Ramage
[We continue with the case of Taser Guns and the plan to bulk-buy Taser Stun Guns to be supplied to every policeman throughout Britain.]
The issues raised in this article are as follows:-
1. There is litigation proceeding at present against Taser Inc,.
E.Alverado and J.Medina v State of California
E.Alverado & J.Medina v Los Angeles Police Department and
E.Alverado & J.Meredith v P.O.Roca and P/O/Platzer,
E.Alverado & J,Meredith v TASER INC,
In April 2003, these parents of the dead boy Eduardo Elvarado, claim that he was killed by a Taser gun.
They seek unspecified Monetary damages.
2. At that same time, Taser issued the following statement in its 2003 Report and Accounts.:
3. They made $23.5 million dollars profit. and their share price zoomed up from $4 to $83.
Hot stuff.
4. They bought out their ONLY competitor TASERTRON in June 2003. So now they are a
monopoly.
Anti-Personnel Munition, or TAPM. (It can shoot from a helicopter.)
5. Now they’re making TASER ANTI-PERSONNELL MUNITION (TAPM) which can shoot people down from as far away as a helicopter.
6. They have 12 valuable PATENTS.
7. Plus a ladies version of the Taser Stun Gun, 60% smaller and called it TASER X26. It can be fitted on every officer’s police belt and the police embraced this product.
8. All police in Phoenix, Cincinnati and Charlotte –Mecklenburg have a TASER X26 and they bought three times the amount they bought of the TASER.


9. These guns are their products . Their brand names are -
TASER
TASER-Wave TM
T-WAVETM
AUTO TASERTN
ADVANCED TASER TM
SHAPED PULSE TECHNOLOGY TM
AFID TM
ADVANCED TASER M26
TASER ANTI-PERSONNEL MUNITION TAPM
TASER X26.
and they have only penetrated 6% of the United States market.
What is puzzling is that they made a profit of $23.5 million in 2003, which means that they must have sold about 235,000 stun guns on average. And if, as they say, 89% was sold in the U.S. , ie, 188,000 average stun guns, then they sold only 47,000 guns to the UK and other countries.

Sally Ramage

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  1. INSURERS OPINION OF TASER GUNS/WEAPONS — Sally Ramage
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