Electroshock weapon

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An electroshock weapon ("EW")—sometimes referred to, imprecisely, as an electronic weapon or electrical weapon, and generically known as an electroshock device—is a type of less-than-lethal weapon that functions by delivering an electric shock to a target to temporarily immobilize it. Several broad sub-types of electroshock weapons exist, and, depending upon the jurisdiction and specific technology or design in question, these devices are officially categorized by law enforcement and regulatory bodies as conducted energy weapons or conducted electrical weapons, and rarely as conducted electronic weapons (CEW); or as conducted energy devices or conducted electronic devices (CED). Colloquially and generically, electroshock weapons are frequently referred to by the Axon brand name and generic trademark Taser, a proprietary eponym derived from the company's original projectile electroshock device, the TASER (an acronym for "Thomas A. Swift's Electric Rifle"); they are also broadly termed stun...

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