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Early use of an electronic control device, like the TASER, by law enforcement occurred in the 1960s when American police officers used electric cattle prods to disperse Civil Rights activists. As for the earliest cattle prods, this came about when inventor John Burton of Wichita, Kansas received a patent (US427549 A) in the late 1800s for such a device.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/11/magazine/who-made-that-stun-gun.html?_r=1
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/other/are-tasers-too-deadly-be-called-non-lethal-f8C11077668
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-05-02/taser-study-deaths/54688110/1
http://www.selfdefensefighting.net/the-history-of-stun-guns-and-the-taser
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/16/us/16cover.html?_r=0
http://www.stunguninformation.com/history-of-stun-guns.html
http://www.stun-gun-defense-products.com/buy-stun-gun/TASER-Versus-Stun-Gun
