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Taser wants judge to clear it of homicide
Stun-gun maker says its weapons don't kill people
Tuesday, April 22, 2008

The company that makes Tasers often gets dragged into court. Families have filed dozens of lawsuits claiming the stun-gun-type weapons kill. But it's Taser International that filed the lawsuit being heard this week in Summit County court. It wants a judge to override the county medical examiner " changing her rulings in three deaths from homicide to accidental. It also wants the judge to cross Taser off the record as a cause of death.

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The X26 Taser is rated at about 2mA "average", but earlier revisions of the specification sheets also mentioned 151 mA RMS. Most experts agree that the safety standard (where only 5% of the normal population would experience VF) is 30mA. Curious that such information has been expunged from the later revisions of the spec sheet.


Posted by: Dave (Pussarmpit, VA) on April 23, 2008 11:02AM
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