Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 26, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press May 1985 pages 1928 one Zap and you Render your attacker helpless for 15 minutes by Ron Laytner special to the free press while the United states and Russia argue future Star wars a Texas company is Al ready marketing a tiny electronic self defence weapon that trans forms anyone into a similar in size and shape to a portable electric the Nova xr5000 stun gun can drop a body contacting attacker or rapist at the flick of a Finger in the United states More than of the nonlethal devices have been purchased within the past 10 months and More than 250 police departments Are using the stun gun As a no deadly Force weapon instead of the stun guns electronic pulse Jolt of volts can Knock Down any but its so weakly powered with a 9volt rechargeable Battery and has such a tiny current of one Ampere that medical experts say it cant cause Perma nent the self defence weapon was in vented As a result of a Challenge to private Industry by a presiden tial crime commission to invent a nonlethal self defence weapon that would Stop the mounting escalation of violent crime in the United the powerful weapon keys itself into and Short circuits the nervous system into telling the brain that the body voluntary Muscles Are totally the brain of a stun gunned at Tacker believes his body has per formed 200 pushups within one Sec helpless collapse the assailant Falls and lies weak and without balance for up to 15 medical reports show the stun gun has no effect on involuntary Muscles controlling the brain and lungs and there have been no lasting effects or the device puts out a Maxim mum of Joules Watts per Sec medical authorities place the lethal Range of Power output which can cause heart attacks at above 10 to 50 William executive vice president of austins Nova techno we designed our de vice from test data we had seen on electronic devices and gave it an extra margin of then we got the worlds top medical experts in electronic pulse technology to Check our machine out and give us a total clean Bill of health As far As safety Safe weapon one of Theodore Bern a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Wisconsin evaluated the unit extensively and the Nova xr5000 is electrocardiograph attached to police volunteers have demonstrated that the electric charge has no effect on the human heart and show no Trace of being we Hope to save thousands of lives by replacing guns with a self defence weapon that disables an attacker without said Nova is committed to reducing the level of violence in a nonlethal stories Are beginning to appear of the stun gun in a women stun gun and its immobilizing effect is demonstrated by company sales representatives at a recent Security conference at which there were representatives of major North american police carrying one captured a rapist in a new York City court room Brawl was ended by marshals using the stun if Only Bernaed Goetz new Yorks subway vigilante had been earring a stun gun instead of a said Nova president James Scroggins a former Texas police four Young men would not have ended up wounded or crippled and Goetz the privately held company Hopes Nova stun guns will replace Many of the 40 million guns owned by the theory is that a quarrelling husband and wife who end up using a stun gun on one or the other could end up seeking a divorce next Day instead of making funeral arrangements and facing violence is said we talked to a gathering of professional women recently and several Hack guns in their its there carrying some police forces have re placed clubs with the stun gun the Sake of humanity and financial this is the first no Impact police said police using the device can Over come and handcuff a violent person within a few seconds without physical police clubs which have cracked knocked out eyes and smashed Teeth could become in Florida where police have been testing the a act National association for the advancement of coloured pie local president Anita Davis praised saying it should re Duce injuries during Dallas police who have used the Nova for several months said its extremely effective 60 per cent of the Nova maintains officers did not properly charge weapon transforms anyone into a Superman what will happen if criminals get hold of the stun gun Nova advocate Gary Young told Ohio if someone were attacked by this they would survive they might not survive an attack by a tire tool or a knife or every la abiding citizen should have the right to possess a device like this so he can choose whether he wants to resist or whether he wants a although there Are no Perma nent the Nova stun gun can leave tiny red Marks on the skin for about one Treyve helped the stun gun receive bad in new York which has been trying out 50 stun guns in a police Mark charged he had been tortured for information on a marijuana there were 30 stun gun Marks on his a women in san califor Nia said a rapist had used one to overpower her and keep her under his in april two men used a stun gun to disable a clerk in a Holdup of a supermarket in los negative stories Are getting us More business than positive said were grow ing we have equipment to put out 100 thousand units each we have distributors in 15 states and More than 500 More wanting to join but we Are just Flat out and not taking on any keep it Legal Nova technologies works at keeping the stun gun employing legislation specialists to fight what it thinks Are unrealistic controls of the police trainers Are schooled in the use of the stun gun at Texas Law enforcement training Academy and then go Back and train their own said Texas train ing Academy is one of the Best investigative groups in the a women in Houston was beaten up pretty badly because she was overconfident and her machine was not properly said what about overseas sales the state department says this is the perfect abusive said Chile has abused every Type of weapon it has South Africa Turkey has and the state department just Doest want that to Nova officials said ramp agents told them Canada would not Wel come the stun gun within its Bor said someone made an exact copycat of our unit in Tai it didst do anything except the Man who made it is going to he violated Canadian Laws by bringing in an electronic electronic weapons which Are capable of immobilizing or otherwise incapacitating were prohibited in Canada by a parliamentary order on March said a gun control officer with the Winnipeg police if people smuggle our units into countries that not our Trou the first country Well go to is Greece and the distributors there will watch carefully for any units smuggled anyone who does will go to greek survivor fights for safety Lisa Ehrich wok a passenger on air Canada flight 797 from Dallas to Toronto on june the plane made an emergency Landing at Cincinnati after a fire broke out on 17 other passengers and the Crew but 23 passengers most were victims of the smoke that engulfed the Interior of the the events of that fateful night have a Texas Art to become an advocate for improved passenger safety on comic rival by Lisa Ehrich special to the Washington Post when the Cabin of air Canada flight 797 began to fill with Black my husband Randy and i were sitting in seats 12d and Over the right i will never forget the feeling of sheer i still have nightmares remembering that Day in june Randy and i both thought we might but we knew we were sitting by an and we were determined to stay put until we could use that see this decision saved our be cause we knew where the exit was and didst have to see to get the smoke got worse As the minutes ticked by the time we landed at greater Cincinnati inter National about 10 minutes after the fire broke the smoke was so bad i see Randy sitting in the seat next to i even see my hand in front of my Crew members instructed the Pas sengers to move Forward in the plane in an apparent Effort to Speed evacuation of the Jet once we i believe the air Canada Crew did everything it could to minimize the that the Pilot was Able to land safely at All is virtually Siracu but the hard fact is that while 18 passengers and five Crew members 23 passengers needlessly i remember thinking at the they just they just see their Way out of the fortunate Randy and i were we were sitting very close to the Emer gency and he was Able to open we crawled out on the Wing and several others followed us but even outside the smoke was so thick we see the we jumped to safety after flames came out the i have become a Strong believer in improved passenger safety on All commercial one improvement appears to be the requirement that aircraft be equipped with fire retardant Materi another is that the Federal Avia Tion administration will require air lines to install escape lights or marking systems near the floor where the smoke is theoretically less dense and where the exit lights Are most Apt to be these must be installed on commercial airliners by november although these new evacuation regulations Are they just dont go far enough to see approved Page 28 ask about crazy 6 year nation wide extended warranty plan 40 Witt am7fm cassette Auto Roitt Cut to Auto reverse cassette Auto reverse cassette by clock Minte f Nolte reduction Cha Trutwi of Xref 11 or Frati hour video recorder i 100 Watt 3wav speakers Kenwood Kenwood Jeff Ami cassette kic4m Kenwood Renov Haiir Wotal 20 xl100 26 xl100 color to console electronic factory 14 xl100 color to factory warranty cassette color to electronic tuning factory warranty stereo in dash cassette player Auto reverse Builtin clock e Power unt Unno signal seek tuning 4way Lader Complete with 60 Watt 6x93 Way or pm Ailt e 5 band Equaler dolby e High Speed dubbing detachable 2 Way and s More Sharp e with detachable speakers oq98 triple nose Cone to tit any vehicle e 2 warranty e com plete with a set of 60 3way Auto reverse cassette player 4 Speeker t program to Torch Sharr tape 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