News 8 recovered one of the bean bag rounds at the scene of the La Mesa protests. It consists of a small, cloth sack filled with lead shotgun pellets about 2mm in diameter.

Each cost about $500 for the gun, conversion kit and the bean-bag shells, he said. A bean-bag round consists of a mesh sock filled with No. 9 lead shot and mesh tails to improve accuracy.

Bryan Ellis turned and fled after Tampa police fired tear gas and bean bag rounds into a crowd of a couple hundred Black Lives Matter protestors on Sunday, May 31. He felt something hit his left calf.

LOST HILLS (CBSLA.com) — Authorities have issued a public safety alert following the possible theft of a bean bag shotgun from the trunk of a sheriff's patrol car. Deputies with the Lost Hills ...

MESA, AZ — Mesa SWAT is facing scrutiny after a video posted on Facebook shows them shooting multiple bean bag rounds at a man at an apartment complex in Mesa Thursday.

Deputies had the weapon, used to subdue people by hitting them with bean bag rounds but able to be loaded with lethal shotgun shells, in a black canvas bag when they left the Lost Hills Sheriff's ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – Oklahoma City police fired bean bag rounds to subdue an armed man who was suspected in a domestic disturbance. Officers were called Friday evening to a home on Hefner ...

The bean-bag guns are one of those tools. “It’s got a bigger distance than a taser, taser is typically good up to about 21 feet give or take whereas this is something that is good out to 75 ...

However, Phoenix Police, Goodyear Police, and the Arizona Department of Public Safety have suspended their use of shotguns that fire beanbag rounds (also known as stun bag shotguns), after ...

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