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Super Talon Net Gun

Many of today's better less-lethal options are actually decades old. Beanbags date back to the 1960s. The TASER® has its origin in the 1970s. OC spray dates back to the 1980s. So it is with the net gun. It was popularized in the 1987 Arnold Schwarznegger film, "The Running Man," just like the TASER gained recognition after the 1976 Clint Eastwood film, "The Enforcer." Today's net gun is the Super Talon(TM) from Advanced Weapons Technology.

Many less-lethal options handle problems in the 7- to 21-foot range. In practical terms, only impact munitions are options at longer ranges. These are good to distract, deny and disperse...but not so good to apprehend. Enter the net gun, a way to ...

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