According to wbay.com, the Green Bay (WI) police are adopting the TASER XREP round. I didn’t see anything wrong with their story. But then I don’t work for TASER’s PR department. Steve Tuttle does. What’s more, he points out that the distinction between a shotgun round and a TASER XREP round is the difference between life and death. Literally. “I’ve worked here for 16 years,” Tuttle told TTAG. “In that time, I’ve seen police load the wrong (i.e. lethal instead of non-lethal) round into a shotgun about a half dozen times. In one case, they shot a poor kid in the chest and killed him.” That’s one of the main reasons why TASER joined forces with Mossberg to create an all-yellow, non-lethal, X12 shotgun; a weapon that can’t fire regular shotgun rounds. (The firing pin doesn’t penetrate a non-TASER round deep enough to ignite the primer.) Question: why aren’t more police departments buying the X12 (instead of using “old” pump-action guns, some of which they paint in bright colors) and why are X12 sales restricted to law enforcement? Money and . . . we’re looking into it. Meanwhile, here are Mr. Tuttle’s correx . . .
