Types of Stun Guns

There are many types of stun guns on the market today.
Which one you choose depends on what you feel comfortable
with and which one best suits you.

Standard stun guns are fairly simple. They are about the
size of a flashlight and work on a single 9-volt battery.
This type of stun gun gets its electric supply from the
battery and it is distributed to the various electrical
components. The standard type of stun gun has small
electrodes at the end where the current is released.

Cattle prods are similar to stun guns. They use an
electrical current that works off the two electrodes on the
end. But the cattle prod serves a different function.

A cattle prod only causes pain, the charge not meant to
disrupt the nervous system but to get the person or the
animal moving. The main difference is in voltage. The
voltage in a cattle prod is lower, only meaning to shock
instead of stun.

Another variation is the taser gun. It is still basically
works the same way, but instead, the electrodes are not
permanently joined to the housing. They are positioned at
the end of conductive wires.

Pulling the trigger releases the electrode, shooting it a
distance into the target, the wires still attached to the
housing. The electrodes have small barbs, which grip on an
attackers clothes. The current travels down the wire and
into the attacker, stunning him the same way. The main
advantage to this is that the attacker can be kept at a
distance, anywhere from 15-20 feet.