Report Links Stun Guns To Deaths
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Medical examiners have found that Taser electric stun guns may have played a role in at least five deaths, contradicting the manufacturer&#39;s claim that the weapons never killed or injured anyone, a newspaper reported Sunday.
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Shares of stun gun maker Taser International Inc.  soared on Wednesday after the United Kingdom, which does not allow most police to carry guns, said it approved use of its stun guns for some officers.
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GRETNA, La. - Now in Jefferson Parish: Tasercams. Any time a sheriff's deputy turns off a stun gun's safety, a tiny camera will roll.
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A police officer used a stun gun on a 75-year-old woman who became distraught when she could not locate a sick friend at a nursing home, according to an internal report.
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Human rights group Amnesty  International called on U.S. law enforcement agencies on  Tuesday to suspend use of Taser electric-shock weapons,  demanding an independent inquiry into the devices, which  Amnesty says have contributed to more than 70 deaths.
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Taser International Inc.'s claims for  the safety of its stun-guns got a boost on Thursday from early  results of a Pentagon study and an article in an independent  medical journal.
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Between 1995 and 2007, at least  82 children and adolescents in the United States died as a  result of playing the "choking game," according to a report  released Thursday.
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Health and safety officials are urged to act after a report finds one in three industry deaths occur on building sites.
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Gun manufacturers are gearing up for the scheduled expiration next week of a 10-year-old federal ban on assault weapons, according to a report released on Tuesday.
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Taser stun guns used by police are potentially deadly and must be controlled, a human rights group says.
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NEW YORK  - A spray used by UK police to  subdue aggressors may cause greater injury than anticipated,  according to new report.
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A man dies in hospital after being shot with a stun gun by police who went to a domestic dispute.
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HOUSTON -- Roiled by allegations of using unjustified deadly force against Latino suspects, the Houston Police Department began using stun guns two years ago so officers could avoid pulling the trigger of an automatic weapon.
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US army doctors working at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq helped design abusive interrogation methods and failed to report deaths triggered by beatings, according to a study to be published in the Lancet journal on Saturday.
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Stun gun maker Taser International  Inc., responding to a news report that its newest weapon failed  to subdue some suspects, said on Friday it is providing  software that lets stun guns fire at full power for a longer  period.
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And robots get stun guns Taser, the stun gun company, has announced a shotgun cartridge which fires a wireless electric shock round to knockdown a person up to 65 feet away.â¦
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The gunman who killed three people and himself in a shooting rampage last month had small amounts of alcohol, marijuana and lithium in his system at the time of the attack, a toxicology report says.