This will not stand. For years, courts and the police have claimed that Tasers are “less than lethal” weapons. The police, especially, adore Tasers because they can use them in many circumstances where guns cannot or should not be used, and the use of blunt weapons, like billy clubs, leaves a lot to be desired.
The idea that they must be licensed will set off alarm bells in every police outfit in the state. Because the police are more than aware that if *their* Tasers are licensed, then their use of them is controlled by someone else.
And what if some bureaucrat decides that they don’t need Tasers, because he, the bureaucrat, doesn’t like them?
Having an essential, often life- or injury- saving tool taken away at the whim of some clod is *not* a good situation, as far as the police are concerned. I don’t blame them.
Right now, I expect the police union lobbyists are bending the ears of state legislators. This is about as personal as it gets.
Police are part of the reason for this rule.
Tasers have hurt and killed people, often when the officer was using them incorrectly. They were supposed to replace nightsticks, but the statistics are causing some people to worry they are more dangerous and legally liable.