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knew of one case of a tranquilizer dart being used against a criminal. This was in 1961 in a prison in Athens, Georgia. A 220-pound prisoner went berserk and the guard shot him with a tranquilizer dart. Six minutes later, the prisoner lost consciousness. The common method of subduing an inmate for cell extraction is to instead fill their cell with
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if the target is a human. "If you shot somebody that was small, it could kill them. If you shot somebody who was big or had drugs in their system, it might not do anything." says Newett, of the
Justice Department. Harold C. Palmer, president of the Palmer Chemical and Equipment Company, said he only
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because they would easily be detected in a public place such as a bar or restaurant. As "Drugged beverages are so much easier to conceal," explains Dr. Theodore
Davantzis. The only person who has been suspected to have used one criminally is Barry Morphew, who is suspected to have chased his wife
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arsenals because a human can easily be wrestled to the ground, the pain induced by the dart may cause a suspect to pull out a weapon or panic and run until they are far away resulting in the officer having to track down the unconscious suspect, a human can have a deadly allergic reaction to a
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sedative, and because effective use requires an estimate of the target's weight — too little sedative will have no effect, and too much sedative will result in death, which can lead to a lawsuit or being convicted of
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around the house after shooting her with a tranquilizer dart and then murdering her before the drugs could take effect to prevent her from calling the police.
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pistol were made and tested. In the second half of the 1980s, the standard tranquillizer gun in the USSR was a single-shot
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