Pepperball
Pepperballs (pepper spray bullets) are ammunition that is used by the police in a similar way to pepper spray , but is fired over a greater distance with a gun, comparable to being shot by a paintball . The capsules are filled with pepper dust.
commitment
Their use is controversial and was apparently the first time in practice at the resolution of sit-ins against a neo-Nazi - demonstration in Dresden on 19 February 2011. Shortly before, the State Ministry of the Interior issued the Pepperball regulation “VwV PeBa SEK” and regulated that the Saxon Special Operations Command (SEK) was allowed to fire the capsaicin II-filled bullets at people.
effect
The irritant is fired as a capsule with a special firearm. When hit, this bursts on a person and covers them with the irritant. In Germany, such weapons were approved for the first time in February 2010 by administrative decision for the Saxon police only up to chest height and below, in the rest of the country only to protect against attacks by animals . A subspecies of this weapon, the "TAC 700 Launcher" from Pepperball Technologies Inc., was partially abolished by police forces in the USA after a passerby in Boston was shot in the eye in 2004.