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Originally Posted by ApS

A 30-second video where a training officer called for a Taser, but used a sidearm instead:

https://youtu.be/n9qRZhEp8P0

Well, as far as I know, a taser and a police hand gun are more or less similar in shape, black color, and use by pulling the trigger so it's easy to see how a gun can get used, thinking it's a taser, in the hurried rush of a confrontation.

..... comments anyone?

Before there were tasers, i believe the police used to carry something like a 16" billy club, and probably no one ever mistook a billy club for a gun, and then proceed to shoot someone with their billy club.

Tasers involve too much technology, so police go to their hand gun when a 26" night-stick would be effective. "In New York City, the police used to use two kinds of batons depending on the time. The one for daytime was called a day-stick and was 11-inches length. Another baton, that was used at night, was 26-inches long and called a night-stick."