Re: self protection with a spray

July 18, 2009

At 05:05 PM 7/17/2009, you wrote:

>thanks, . guess I won't get a holster for my wasp spray, ny being

>the #1 litigious state in the union. sad state of affairs.

Do check the state laws. Any gun shop will tell you them. Ask at

two store, even the local camping or sports store, Big 5, have pepper

spray. Do not believe just one store clerk. You've been warned.

The cost of such a holster would equal the cost of getting a combined

package of 2 or 3 pepper spray bottles, each with a holster. Check

your local camping store, or gun store (more expensive there most likely).

You will find key chain size ones, good to spray 1 or 2 people in the face,

and then it runs out. You must be within 5-8 feet and aim accurately.

You will find purse size ones good for 3-5 people, enough air pressure

to be 8-12 feet away and still aim accurately at their face.

Then the large size good for 20 feet with accurate aim, but up closer,

5-12 feet, you just have to get within a foot or two of their face, and it

can control 8-10 people.

Then, the extra large size with a wide spray angle, good for crowd control

at 20 feet, just spray across an arc, and you get every one, without aiming.

However, it can the have the plume of spray be blown by the wind back

your way, and disable your eyes, and hurt your nose.

So, if you have poor aim, you need not the pinpoint spray, but the wider

spray type.

Do consider getting two. Practice ONCE with one of them. It's air

pressure is reduced, and not as good anymore, but you know what

to expect now. Be sure to be upwind of the target zone. If you need

to practice aiming, then do so. Take short shots, not long ones.

To get more value out of aiming practice.

Also, know that some 5-8% of the people so sprayed will be allergic,

some will go into shock and die within 3-12 minutes. So, you have to

be sure your life is in danger if you spray someone. You can be liable

for ... murder, second degree, at the worse, or involuntary, depending

on the story you told, the cops backing your story, the DA, the judge,

the city, the county, the state and it's laws, and most of all, who you

sprayed. A judge's son vs a loner criminal with long record of assault.

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