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| | Earth Island Institute: Earth Island Journal - Winter 2001-2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) |
 | | Many shotguns specially adapted for police use (e.g., by Ithaca, Mossberg, Remington, Sage International and Wilson Arms) are literally sawn-off shotguns whose wider spread increases the number of likely targets. |
 | | Modern snoopers can buy specially adapted laptop computers and simply tune in to all the mobile phones active in the area by cursoring down to their number. |
 | | Back in 1984, it emerged that US export regulations had special customs codes for "specially designed instruments of torture." Category codes in the export administration regulations had been extended to include: saps, thumbcuffs, thumbscrews, leg irons, shackles, handcuffs, stun guns, shock batons, electric cattle prods, straightjackets and specially designed implements of torture. |
| www.earthisland.org /eijournal/new_articles.cfm?articleID=279&journalID=49 (3940 words) |
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