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There are a lot of examples of guns that don’t inflict permanent damage to targets, including stun guns, tranquilizer guns, and even guns that fire rubber bullets or bean bags. However, these items usually require permits to have. With a new product in the market called SALT, however, this is about to change. Not only is it nonlethal, it is also obtainable without a permit.
The SALT gun fires balls that are filled with a combination of powdered pepper spray and tear gas. That’s right, this is a weapon that fires both tear gas and mace at assailants. The company behind this product is SALT Supply Co. and according to their website, the pellets “break on contact, immediately causing temporary blindness, difficulty breathing, and severe impact distress.”
For those who think that the SALT gun sounds like a simple toy compared to actual guns, the range of the weapon is 150 feet. The pellets themselves travel at 320 feet/second, which is like getting hit with a baseball at 50mph. The combination of the tear gas as well as the pepper spray has also been used by both the military and police force, classifying the mixture as safe.
The company is also marketing the gun as being effective enough to stop assailants from breaking into homes or attacking users while walking in the city, but also being safe enough to avoid permanent harm. It won’t kill anyone who gets hit with the pellets, which happens to include children curious enough to get their hands on the SALT gun.
There’s also the matter of providing people with a means of protecting themselves that they would be comfortable with, Futurism reports. Adam Kennedy, the co-founder of SALT Supply notes how some people don’t feel good about owning lethal methods like guns, which is why they go for options like pepper sprays or stun guns.
However, the problem with those options is their range and effectiveness at actually stopping assailants. The SALT gun provides such people with an effective option that they can use from afar, keeping them well out of harm’s way, but still removes the prospect of death from the equation.
