The Z-Ro Retinal Obfuscation weapon mounted to a handgun.
Posted on 04/17/2015 9:44:39 PM PDT by Perseverando
The Z-Ro Retinal Obfuscation weapon mounted to a handgun.
Last summer’s riots in Ferguson, Missouri, prompted much talk by President Obama and certain members of Congress about the need to demilitarize local police forces. Nearly a year later, the opposite is happening.
New and more powerful weapons are flowing into local police departments daily, and still others are new to the marketplace.
One weapon about to make its debut is the “Z-Ro Retinal Obfuscation” gun. When fired, the gun allows an officer to temporarily blind his targeted subject for up to 15 minutes.
The new “compliance weapon” made a splash at the Urban Shield trade show last October in Boston. It is not yet available for purchase but recently entered the manufacturing stage, according to its maker, Reno, Nevada-based Shield Defense Systems LLC. It can be weapon-mounted or hand-held.
“We are currently developing and manufacturing numerous proprietary technologies, don’t be left behind,” the firm says on its website. “Contact us now to be on the priority list for information and demonstrations at info@shielddefensesystems.com.”
The company refers to “recent controversies” in making its pitch for the sight-stealing gun, and says the weapon is safe to use against humans.
“With the rise of recent controversies directed at law enforcement officers … Shield Defense Systems has dedicated its personnel and resources with primary objectives in providing non-lethal and less-harmful but effective, deployable defense systems to proactively subdue would-be assailants. Our systems focus on the PRESERVATION OF HUMAN LIFE, and POST QUALITY OF LIFE, while delivering effective compliance techniques to quell both foreign and domestic threats.”
John Whitehead, a constitutional lawyer, founder of the Rutherford Institute and author of the new book, “Battlefield America: The War on the American People,” finds
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Equipment like this is the product of cops wanting more and more equipment to militarize themselves. Like tanks and ever more present and dangerous SWAT teams.
I was wondering about that, too. I’m not a physicist, but it seems to me if something is powerful enough to blind you for 15 minutes, I would think it’s powerful enough for there to be a chance to cause permanent eye damage.
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Correct. However if they pass some fed standard for output and exposure time, they will be considered harmless. And we will be unable to claim damages caused by them. Think taser, beanbag, pepper spray, etc.
There ya go. Cops today are expected to arrest the new breed of whiny-ass crybaby without harming them. When I started I had a revolver and a night stick. Over the next 30 years we got pepper spray. It killed a few people. We got Tazers, more people got killed. They banned the “choke” hold although it was one of the most effective ways to make an arrest. Now it’s so politically incorrect and considered to be “deadly force” that if you use it you might get charged or fired.
I say bring back the ‘good old days’ when a cop could pull a black-jack out of his pocket and deliver one smack to the forehead. Fight over.
Frankly, I have so much crap on my belt I don’t have room for any more. I don’t even want to wear the “bulletproof” vest let alone all the new politically correct snivel-gear you have to carry now. Any real street cop doesn’t want more electrical gadgets and foo-foo sprays, they want to deliver a good, old-fashioned wood shampoo.
When I started a guy that needed an ass-kicking got one and it was over with. Now after you look at them cross-eyed they want to run to their lawyer.
Within a year thugs will have these blinders and be using them to mug their victims.
No way this technology is restricted to LEOs.
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Cheap Chinese copies on eBay within a year fo shure yo!
That is true. I’m thinking that the cops would go with a green wavelength laser (500~600nm?). The human eye is most sensitive to the green-yellow part of the spectrum, and a laser in that range would be the most effective at blinding someone without causing permanent damage. I would start their for a suitable pair of safety glasses.
...Urban Shield trade...
How nice. The gear queers, boot lickers and tyrannical statists have a place to meet.
When I started a guy that needed an ass-kicking got one and it was over with.
I sounds like you ought to be in jail.
Feels like batman running with all that crap on the utility belt. Now comes a camera.
It doesn’t seems like militarization to carry yet another non lethal device to go along with OC, taser, and a baton. Now if your department is buying an MRAP that’s a different thing entirely.
SEIU
had to look up what SEIU was. You’re probably right. At the time “The Jungle” was written, unions were needed. Now, not so much. I think I read that one out of FIVE federal employees spend their ENTIRE day doing union work. I could be wrong. But like peloser said, “there nothing left to cut”
Er, you do realize that imminent blindness and loss of life or limb are justifications for use of lethal force in the military, right?
This is going to get people killed.
brilliantidea by the authorities.
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