Police call it a “40-millimeter Less-Lethal Launcher,” but to those who have found themselves on the business end of the weapon during recent protests, the wounds feel deadly serious. And unjustified.
A Los Angeles police officer aims his "less-lethal" weapon at a demonstrator in June 2020. (Jae C. Hong / Associated Press) Los Angeles police officers fired 40-millimeter projectiles intended to stop ...
A SWAT officer suffered a serious injury Wednesday morning when a large projectile launcher exploded in his hands, officials said.The officer of the Middleborough Police Department, who was not ...
LAPD officers were caught in a bizarre shootout at an apartment when a man emerged from his unit and began shooting with a projectile launcher that fired .50 caliber rubber balls. Recently released ...
MADISON, Wis. -- Madison police used a projectile launcher to subdue a man who they said was threatening to harm people with a knife on State Street Wednesday evening. Officers found the man in the ...
The Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department will be granted funds to purchase new equipment for its SWAT team, including night vision goggles and a projectile launcher that can fire rubber balls and, ...
St. Louis police are still searching for a projectile launcher after a 25-year-old man was charged and accused with sneaking into a SWAT bunker and stealing a shotgun, ammo and other gear. ST. LOUIS — ...
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) – A federal judge issued an order Monday restricting the use of certain less-lethal projectile launchers by Los Angeles police officers. It restricts the use of 40mm and 37mm ...
SAGINAW, MI — Before a group of Saginaw police officers shot and killed a homeless man wielding a knife on July 1, officers made attempts to retrieve a "bean bag gun" that was later found to be locked ...
For several years now, America has been toying with the idea of railguns, weapons that fire not through gunpowder or chemical explosives, but through electromagnetic fields. Yes, these are ...
A Glens Falls man is accused of firing a pepper projectile launcher into a vehicle. Police say it was a case of road rage. Joshua P. Alexander, 43, was involved in a dispute with another driver while ...
Police call it a “40-millimeter Less-Lethal Launcher,” but to those who have found themselves on the business end of the weapon during recent protests, the wounds feel deadly serious. And unjustified.