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  Explosive Dynamic Entry
A stun grenade, unlike the traditional grenade, the purpose of which is to kill or wound, is designed to stun and distract by producing a temporarily blinding light and a temporarily deafening concussion, but without the propulsion or dispersion of shrapnel.
To disorient the occupants of the porch and the residence, the officers detonate a stun grenade.
Before entering the residence, the officers detonate a stun grenade in the rear of the house for the purpose of distracting or frightening the occupants of the house.
www.mapinc.org /drugnews/v03/n1148/a08.html?397   (5301 words)

  
 More Bang For The Buck: Ultra-Tech Grenades
When the grenade is activated, it generates a pulse of concentrated sound that liquefies flesh and bone, doing 6d+6 damage to anyone within a four-yard radius around the target hex.
Stun Grenade: Basically a lower-powered sonic grenade, a stun grenade emits a wave of sound that affects the nervous systems of all beings within its area of effect.
Tangler rounds are available as booth hand grenades and launched grenades; the effect is identical to a normal tangler round, but with range, etc., appropriate to the way it is thrown or fired.
www.sjgames.com /gurps/Roleplayer/Roleplayer25/Ultra-Tech-Grenades.html   (785 words)

  
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The government's evidence showed that stun grenades had been classified by the ATF as destructive devices around 1980, that they contained a high explosive flash powder with a fuse to detonate the grenade, and that they functioned as designed.
We therefore hold that the defendant's intent to use the fully assembled stun grenades as a weapon is not a necessary element.
Stun grenades are supposed to be used by law enforcement as an offensive tactical weapon, and function for their designed purpose.
www.constitution.org /2ll/bardwell/us_v_ruiz.txt   (1648 words)

  
 Hand Grenades
Stun hand grenades are used as diversionary or distraction devices during building and room clearing operations when the presence of noncombatants is likely or expected and the assaulting element is attempting to achieve surprise.
Once the grenade is thrown, the pressure on the safety lever is released, and the striker is forced to rotate on its axis by the striker spring, throwing the safety lever off.
The M84 diversionary/flash-bang stun hand grenade is designed to be thrown into a room (through an open door, a standard glass window, or other opening) where it delivers a loud bang (170 to 180 decibels at 5 feet) and bright flash (1.5 to 2.5 million CP) sufficient to temporarily disorient personnel in the room.
www.inetres.com /gp/military/infantry/grenade/hand.html   (3696 words)

  
 Using Hand Grenades
Fragmentation, concussion and stun grenades are used to clear the enemy from rooms and basements.
Stun grenades are used primarily during precision clearing of an urban structure when the presence of noncombatants is likely.
The M84 stun hand grenade is designed to be thrown into a room (through an open door, a standard glass window, or other opening) to deliver a loud bang and bright flash sufficient enough to temporarily disorient personnel in the room.
www.inetres.com /gp/military/infantry/grenade/use.html   (1795 words)

  
 Grenades
TN Grenades are formed of solid compunds or liquid; when the device explodes, the liquid is dispersed as an aerosol.
The MK3A2 offensive hand grenade, commonly referred to as the concussion grenade, is designed to produce casualties during close combat while minimizing danger to friendly personnel.
The XM84 Stun Grenade is a non-fragmentation, non-lethal "Flash And Bang" stun grenade that is intended to provide a reliable, effective non-lethal means of neutralizing and disorienting enemy personnel.
www.members.tripod.com /Price_Of_Blood/Grenades.htm   (635 words)

  
 The Hindu : Kerala / Thiruvananthapuram News : Grenade not of the type used recently: police
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The police suspect that the grenade that was produced in the Legislative Assembly on Thursday could be the one that was used in July last year when Left organisations took to the streets protesting against the Government's education policy in the wake of the suicide of a self-financing engineering college student, Rajani S. Anand.
Though the police were yet to inspect the grenade, the department has ordered an "informal inquiry" to ascertain the nature and quantity of "non-lethal" ammunitions used against violent demonstrators in the State in the past 10 days.
The grenade is used by all police forces in the country as per the recommendation of the Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPR&D).
www.hindu.com /2005/07/08/stories/2005070818230300.htm   (527 words)

  
 Jabba's Rancor, Part 2: The Birthday Present
Stun Grenades: Among the wreckage, Bidlo found a case of stun grenades.
He gains the ability Stun Grenade Case (range 3, save 8, stun damage 30) for one use only (this detonates the case).
Characters starting outside of Area B may gain the Stun Grenade special ability by ending their turn adjacent to any other character that started in Area B. This includes Bib Fortuna and his henchman.
www.wizards.com /default.asp?x=starwars/article/Rancor2   (1178 words)

  
 What's a stun grenade? By Brendan I. Koerner - Slate Magazine
Since then, stun grenades have become a staple of army and police arsenals, often used to "soften up" rooms or buildings before armed personnel come storming in.
Cops or soldiers who toss stun grenades are advised to wear earplugs and visors and to take cover once the device has been sent airborne.
There are other grenade varietals, such as the ABC-M7A3 CS, that are specifically designed for that purpose; they typically emit vast plumes of irritating smoke in order to discourage throngs from marching forward.
www.slate.com /id/2108577   (834 words)

  
 CNN.com - Israeli troops throw stun grenades at journalists - April 5, 2002
At that point, about six stun grenades were thrown into the midst of the journalists by Israeli soldiers.
A stun grenade detonated under Holmes' foot as he fled the scene.
Stun grenades produce a blinding flash and a very loud explosion, designed to disorient those targeted
archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/meast/04/05/mideast.journalists/index.html   (260 words)

  
 Photographer hurt by stun grenade thrown by police : print   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Reporters Without Borders today condemned the police use of a stun grenade against Georges Bartoli, a freelance photographer working for the news agency Reuters, while he was covering a protest against genetically-modified crops on 25 September in Valdivienne.
Bartoli said he was on his own, at some distance from the demonstrators and just a few metres from the police, and clearly identifiable as a journalist, when the stun grenade was thrown in his direction.
In a joint statement, they said they were filming the demonstration from a place where they were on their own and easily identifiable by their cameras when the police threw tear gas and a stun grenade from a distance of one metre.
www.rsf.org /print.php3?id_article=11467   (372 words)

  
 Harmless Grenade Stuns Terrorists, Spares Hostages
The stun grenade is also reusable, making it feasible as a training tool.
Diversionary devices -- also called stun grenades or flash-bangs -- are used in interventions practiced by most police departments and some Washington agencies.
Prison officials require a grenade that, if remaining whole after use, is too soft and flexible to be used as a fljack by rioting convicts.
unisci.com /stories/20022/0409024.htm   (535 words)

  
 Maltese Assault Forces AAO Clan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The M84 Stun Grenade is a non-fragmentation, non-lethal "Flash And Bang" stun grenade that is intended to provide a reliable, effective non-lethal means of neutralizing & disorienting enemy personnel.
This is a heavy concentration white smoke grenade used for screening small unit movements.
To ignite the grenade a string is pulled activating the internal friction match.
www.mufor.org /mafia/weapons/nades.html   (321 words)

  
 Stun Grenades Used To Nab Poachers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Armed fisheries officials used stun grenades during the chase and capture of two Asian fishing boats poaching off the coast of Mozambique last week, South Africa's Department of Environmental Affairs said on Friday.
"A stun grenade was thrown onboard the Sin Iu Peng to ensure access of the South African and Mozambican fisheries officers," the department said in a statement.
"Two stun grenades were thrown at the deck, but the vessel kept steaming...
www.flmnh.ufl.edu /fish/InNews/stun2004.html   (401 words)

  
 NewStandard: 8/1/96
The case of Derek Garner, 25, charged with armed robbery while masked, aggravated rape, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, and illegal possession of a sawed-off shotgun, reached a single judge of the Supreme Judicial Court yesterday.
Grimes said that if the court accepted the case for review, one option would be to give police a new category of search under "extraordinary circumstances," including but possibly not limited to the use of stun grenades.
Besides snipers and the rest of the Special Reaction Team, the stun grenade was thrown through a rear window as a diversion.
www.southcoasttoday.com /daily/08-96/08-01-96/c02lo086.htm   (772 words)

  
 Wired News: A Stunning New Flash-Bang
A new and less hazardous breed of stun grenade is soon to make its presence felt in the vicinity of terrorists and other would-be bad guys.
Stun grenades -- designed to bamboozle terrorists or kidnappers with a blinding and deafening, but ultimately harmless, explosion -- are supposed to be non-lethal.
Sandia Labs also created the MK 141 stun grenade that has been used for diversionary tactics by the military for the last 15 years.
www.wired.com /news/gizmos/0,1452,51760,00.html   (713 words)

  
 Hand Grenades   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Hand grenades give the soldier the ability to kill enemy soldiers, destroy enemy equipment, give signals, and control riots.
Filler -- chemical or explosive substance in the grenade, which determines grenade use and characteristics.
Fuze assembly -- causes the grenade to function by igniting or detonating the filler.
www.fas.org /man/dod-101/sys/land/grenade.htm   (127 words)

  
 NYPD curtails stun grenade use - Newsday.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
In the three years since Alberta Spruill was literally scared to death in a botched raid, the New York City Police Department has all but eliminated use of the stun grenade, the device officers used the day they burst into her Harlem apartment, Newsday has learned.
By contrast, in the 5 1/2 months before her death, the device was used 85 times, and in 2002 it was used 150 times, police statistics show.
The grenade, designed to disorient suspects with a flash and a loud boom, frightened Spruill so much she fell to the floor of her bedroom.
feeds.newyorkcitynews.net /?rid=a044eed6a4044d2b&...   (714 words)

  
 stun grenade definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta
stun grenade definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta
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flash and bang explosive device: a nonlethal grenade that creates a loud bang and a bright flash when it explodes and is intended to temporarily disorient people
encarta.msn.com /dictionary_701710141/stun_grenade.html   (74 words)

  
 Explosive Dynamic Entry - Professor Wilkes - University of Georgia School of Law   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Stun grenades are regarded as nonlethal weapons, but they are inherently dangerous and can, as the killing of Alberta Spruill proves, cause death.  “The term ‘nonlethal’ refers to the goal which is to avoid fatalities,” Lt. Col.
June 5, 1994    A Tucson, Arizona police SWAT team executes a search warrant at a residence at an unspecified address, detonating a stun grenade in the process.  The residence raided turns out to be the wrong house, occupied not by drug dealers but by a 75-year old woman, her son, and three small children.
June 13, 1997    In Dane County, Wisconsin, police execute a search warrant at two neighboring apartments at unspecified addresses.  Before entering one of the apartments, police detonate a stun grenade inside.  At the time of the explosion three persons are present in the apartment.  See State v.
www.law.uga.edu /academics/profiles/dwilkes_more/44explosive.html   (1243 words)

  
 Prohibition in the Media: Niagara Falls Stun Grenade Incident Shocks Residents -- DRCNet and LEAP Quoted
An article in Friday's Buffalo News, 'Stun' Device Burns Woman in Drug Raid, quoted yours truly as well as upstate New Yorker, retired police captain Peter Christ of Prohibition in the Media partner organization Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), to whom I had referred the reporter after he called.
One of those points is about the extremity of the current drug war, the use of paramilitary tactics such as stun grenades.
Check out Dan Herbeck's and Bill Michelmore's critical examination of stun grenades in drug enforcement here, and click here for letter to the editor information or here to submit one online.
stopthedrugwar.org /blog/archives/2005/01/buffalo_stun_gr.html   (729 words)

  
 Israeli Troops Throw Stun Grenades at Journalists
West Bank (CNN) -- Israeli troops on Friday fired stun grenades and rubber-coated bullets at a group of about two dozen journalists waiting for the arrival of U.S. Mideast envoy Anthony Zinni at the compound of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
A stun grenade thrown by an Israeli soldier explodes in the middle of a group of journalists in front of Yasser Arafat's compound in the beseiged West Bank city of Ramallah Friday April 5, 2002.
Journalists attempting to cover the scheduled meeting between PLO leader Yasser Arafat and U.S. envoy Anthony Zinni were turned back by Israeli soldiers.
www.commondreams.org /headlines02/0405-04.htm   (430 words)

  
 Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance for PS2 on Gamerhelp.com
FA Connecting Bridge Stun Grenade at Strut A side lower level.
DE Connecting Bridge Stun Grenade and USP Bullet on Strut E side.
Shoot her when she's moving from one spot to another and when she's about to throw a grenade.
www.gamerhelp.com /ps2/MetalGearSolid2Substance/101480.shtml   (7200 words)

  
 Metal Gear Solid Walkthrough 3
The right one contains 1 box of diazepam, 1 box of stun grenade, and a ration - but the place is covered with claymore mines.
When the missile is on its way, quickly equip the chaff grenade and throw it.
Use your stun grenade, go back and fire Liquid with stinger missiles.
members.tripod.com /jonchen/mgswalkthrough3.html   (4386 words)

  
 Jedi Counseling 86
This has created situations that seem unlikely, such as low-level characters taking down a high-level Jedi simply by throwing stun grenades every round (it's almost impossible to miss the target entirely) while the rest of the group attacks with normal weapons.
When a character is hit by a successful attack from a weapon set to stun (or a stun-only weapon such as a stun grenade or stun baton), the character must make a Fortitude saving throw to determine the effect of the attack:
You'd be better off holding something in your off-hand such as a grenade or a medpac, if only to save you the move action to retrieve it later, or perhaps a melee weapon in case you need to make an attack of opportunity.
www.wizards.com /default.asp?x=starwars/article/sw20060406jc86   (2065 words)

  
 Stun grenade??? - StoneDragon's Guitar Discussion Forum
posted April 05, 2002 04:31 AM A stun Grenade is a grenade that knocks you out instead of blowing you up
One story I recall, Israeli soldiers fired a stun grenade into a schoolyard in the divided West Bank city of Hebron, burning 10-13 children.
They reportedly used the device because they knew it wouldn't kill the children, but it would burn them badly enough to require medical treatment and removal from the school.
www.zentao.com /ubb/Forum2/HTML/000846.html   (206 words)

  
 MK Barakeh hurt by stun grenade at anti-separation fence rally - Haaretz - Israel News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
During the clashes, which also included fist-fights, an Associated Press photographer was lightly hurt, apparently by a stun grenade thrown by police officers.
He said he had identified himself to the commander of the forces and that while exchanging words with him, the stun grenade had been thrown.
Later in the day, Barakeh sent a letter to Attorney General Menachem Mazuz, Military Advocate General Avihai Mandelblit and the head of the Justice Ministry's police investigations department, Herzl Shviro, demanding that a criminal investigation be opened against those responsible for the firing of the stun grenade.
www.haaretz.com /hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=570137   (940 words)

  
 non-lethal interference grenade
Midé's innovative design includes multiple xenon flash lamps and piezoelectric materials, that produce a high pitched scream, positioned on the perimeter of a compact, hand-deployable package.
Also known as the Innovative Piezoelectric Flash-bang (IPF), the MIG44 is a result of a Phase I SBIR contract examining the feasibility of a non-pyrotechnic stun grenade.
Thus far, Midé has constructed a feasible, re-usable stun grenade system design based on Phase I trade studies and technology analysis, and has a patent pending.
www.mide.com /prod_mig44.html   (837 words)

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