Just a boring note anything designed intended or adapted to be used to injure or incacipate is an offensive weapon, so illegal to carry outside the home. There is no general right to arm yourself in speculative self defence. So the torch with a striking bezel is illegal. Also tactical lights are only £5 off eBay so the advertised ones on social media are massively over priced and the supporting pictures were nicked off a hobbiest website and do not show the light from those torches.
When I was in Turkey on holiday a few years ago me and my mate were looking around a gift shop when the shopkeeper got us to come over and look at some “torches” he had in a secret drawer under the counter.
It was obvious what they were by the electrodes either side of the lens, he even got one out for a demo 😯 Would have been an ideal torch to be carrying incase of trouble but didn’t fancy the prison sentence for firearms offences bringing it home 😆
What about a pepper spray? What happens if you get caught with that? Or if you use it self defense?
I think the ‘full on’ stuff the police carry is illegal to carry unless you’re a PO.[/quote]
I think once you create any kind of method of spraying a noxious chemical/liquid it becomes a firearm. UK law really does seem to make it illegal for a law abiding citizen to defend themselves with anything other than their bare hands.
Infra-sound is (supposed to be) very good for making people feel uneasy without them quite knowing why
yeah – extremely low-frequency sound creates a feeling of nausea and anxiety. It was used in the film ‘Irréversible’ and people supposedly left the auditorium feeling unwell – although that might have just been the extreme sexual violence in the film
lol @ ‘the brown note’ … I’d forgotten about that! 😆
CountZero – I agree that in the right hands a strike bezel is an effective tool. But in the right hands anything can become an effective tool – from a biro to a credit card to a thumb
But in most peoples hands, like my own, it’s just an embellishment on a torch