Electroshock weaponとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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electroshock weapon (複数形 electroshock weapons)

1. a hand-held weapon mainly used by the police, such as a stun gun or taser, which is designed to incapacitate (not to kill) a person with an electric shock.
   • 2015, "The Sordid Hypocrisy of to Protect and to Serve: Police Brutality, Corruption and Oppression in America" by Thomas Fensch, BookBaby ↑ISBN [1]

     FPD officers seem to regard ECWs as an all-purpose tool bearing no risk. But an ECW - an electroshock weapon that disrupts a person's muscle control, causing involuntary contractions - can indeed be harmful.

   • 2012, "Guns & Special Weapons" by Brian Kevin, ABDO Publishing Company ↑ISBN [2]

     Like tear gas grenades, electroshock weapons are nonlethal police weapons. Electroshock weapons such as Tasers offer a less dangerous option than firearms.

   • 2004, "Non-lethal Weapons as Legitimizing Forces? Technology, Politics and the Management of Conflict" by Brian Rappert, Routledge ↑ISBN [3]

     It is not only human-rights organizations that have taken a stern critical position about electroshock weapons. For purposes of export controls from Britain, electrical devices such as taser and stun batons have been classified as instruments of torture since 1997 and their export is strictly forbidden.