Massachusetts Pepper Spray or Mace Laws May Be Changing

The Massachusetts Legislature is considering a repeal on their pepper spray or mace law requiring citizens to hold a firearms license to carry it. More on this story provided by MassLive:

BOSTON – The Massachusetts Legislature is considering repealing a law requiring a person to obtain a firearms license in order to purchase mace or pepper spray.

Massachusetts is the only state in the nation with such strict restrictions on pepper spray.

“It’s an unnecessary impediment to public safety on behalf of people, particularly women, who need it for self-defense,” said Rep. Harold Naughton, a Clinton Democrat and chairman of the Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security.

The Senate passed the pepper spray provision, by a vote of 39-0, as an amendment to its version of the state budget. The House had already passed a similar provision as part of a domestic violence bill, also with overwhelming support. Although small differences between the versions still need to be worked out, several legislators predicted that the provision will reach the governor’s desk before the end of the legislative session.

Gov. Deval Patrick, a Democrat, has not taken a position on the legislation.

Sen. Richard Ross, a Wrentham Republican, first filed the pepper spray amendment several years ago. “I had daughters who were going to college and who I thought might benefit from being able to have it legally on their person to protect themselves,” Ross said.

Ross said he has since heard of a number of female students in the Boston area who have been attacked. “If they had something to defend themselves, maybe they would have been able to fend off an attack,” Ross said.

Ross said although the bill did not progress in past years, he has since suggested additional safeguards to keep pepper spray out of the hands of certain people.

The Senate version of the bill states that no one under 15 can possess pepper spray. Someone under 18 cannot buy pepper spray, but can own it if a guardian gives it to them. People who have been convicted of certain crimes, who have been treated for substance abuse problems or hospitalized for mental illness would also generally be restricted from owning pepper spray. There would be criminal penalties for people who illegally sell or buy pepper spray.

Currently, a person needs to have a firearms identification card – the same card required for someone buying a shotgun or rifle – in order to purchase pepper spray. Applying for the card requires filling out an application with personal identification information and questions about criminal convictions, citizenship, mental illness, substance abuse, and the revocation of previous gun licenses. The application must be given to the local police chief along with a $100 fee.

According to the Executive Office of Public Safety and Security, as of May 5, there were 15,974 active FID cards in Massachusetts.  The state did not have information on how many people used FID cards to buy pepper spray versus to buy guns.

Toni Troop, a spokeswoman for Jane Doe Inc., a statewide coalition against sexual and domestic violence, said her group has not come out for or against the amendment.

“We understand that there are some victims who will find having access to pepper spray to be reassuring in terms of their sense of safety, but we always caution that entering any firearm or weapon into a situation can be used against the victim,” Troop said. “So we urge people to be very careful and cautious in making these decisions in terms of arming themselves in any way.”

http://www.masslive.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/05/massachusetts_legislature_cons.html

Massachusetts Pepper Spray or Mace Laws May Be Changing

Women Self Defense in Morain Ohio

A women self defense class in Morain where Morain Police are helping women to fight back. More on the story provided by WDTN 2 News:

MORAINE, Ohio (WDTN) – No!

It’s a short response that comes with quite a punch in Moraine.

“This was actually my dad’s Christmas gift to my mom, my sister, and I,” said Jessica Schulte, taking a RAD class at the Moraine Civic Center.

For Schulte and her family, it is the gift of self-defense.

RAD or Rape Aggression Defense was taught at the Moraine Civic Center. Wednesday night was the final night of a four-week training to help women learn defensive techniques.

The training can help put a father’s mind at ease.

“I think he decided that we need to have a way to get out if we do have one of those moments where this doesn’t feel right,” said Schulte. “What do I do now?”

For the instructors, the class is meant to be more than defending against a potential attacker.

“Ninety percent of self-defense is being aware and avoiding the actual conflict istelf,” said Sgt. Mike Keegan with the Moraine Police Department. “It’s trusting your instincts and noticing that you’re going into a dangerous situation and try to think of other ways to deal with that other than to get into a violent situation.”

In case a situation gets out of hand, Keegan is one of two instructors giving women their best opportunity to protect themselves.

“I’ll get suited up in a red suit and they’ll actually get to apply a lot,” said Keegan. “They’ve been hitting on square pads to a round body where they are actually being aggressed against. That’s where you see sort of the light come on.”

It is meant to give women the courage to know no matter how daunting the challenge may be, they have the means to escape safely.

“It’s given me a lot of confidence that I have ways to get out of this,” said Schulte. “Make it out alive. That’s our thing here is to get home at night, get to the people you love, and make it out alive.”

The city tries to host the class once or twice a year. The cost is free for participants.

http://wdtn.com/2014/05/28/women-fighting-back-in-moraine/

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Pepper Spray Used in Armed Robbery for Self Defense

A woman used self defense pepper spray in an armed robbery at her home to defend herself. More on the story provided by WAFB:

AMITE, LA (WAFB) -

Authorities are searching for two men who allegedly robbed a woman outside her home. Fortunately, she escaped unharmed, thanks to quick thinking and pepper spray.

According to the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Office, the incident happened at roughly 6:30 a.m. on Wednesday, May 28. The victim reported that the suspects confronted her outside her home, which is located on Pulleston Road in Amite.

“Two masked male subjects aggressively approached the homeowner’s vehicle as she was attempting to leave her residence,” Dawn Panepinto, spokesperson for Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Office, said. “One of the subjects began to beat on the driver’s side window with his left hand, while brandishing a weapon with his right. The subject eventually attempted to break the victim’s window with a concrete block.”

The victim told deputies she pulled out and used her pepper spray when the man opened the driver’s side door. However, the other suspect grabbed her bag from the front seat.

“The subjects then fled on foot as the gunman had his handgun pointed at the victim until they were out of sight,” Panepineto added. “The subjects are described as being slim and approximately 5’10″ tall.  Both subjects were wearing dark clothing and wearing a white cloth over their faces.”

If you know anything about this incident, call Crime Stoppers at (800) 554-5245.

http://www.wafb.com/story/25642458/woman-uses-pepper-spray-on-armed-robbers-suspects-wanted

Pepper Spray Used in Armed Robbery for Self Defense

Stun Gun Use- Connecticut Could Be First to Track Police USE

Connecticut could possibly be the first state that requires police stun gun use to be tracked. More on the story provided by ABC News:

Connecticut police departments are set to become the first in the nation required by law to keep track and report every instance in which an officer discharges a stun gun.

The legislation now before Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and followed the April 13th death of 22-year-old Jose Maldonado of Manchester. He was shocked by East Hartford police after they say he became combative during his booking on an assault charge.

It was the 14th stun-gun related death involving police in Connecticut since 2005, and the 10th involving a minority, according the ACLU of Connecticut.

“We needed to act,” said state Rep. Juan R. Candelaria, D-New Haven, who sponsored the legislation. “There needs to be a mechanism in place where we can really monitor the use of these Tasers.”

The bill, pushed through in the final hours of the General Assembly session, would also mandate that departments adopt training and procedures developed by the state’s Police Officer Standards and Training Council for using the electronic weapons.

The measure was approved as an amendment, replacing language in a bill that had been originally designed to regulate license plate scanners. It passed on votes of a 102-38 in the House and 35-1 in the Senate.

Candelaria said Malloy is expected to sign the bill. Malloy’s office said the governor was reviewing the legislation.

State Sen. Jason Welch, R-Bristol, opposed the bill. He said the law will make officers more reluctant to use stun guns, which could lead to them being injured or killed.

“Although the event in East Hartford was tragic, it was a clear outlier, and should not have led to this risky policy decision,” he said.

David McGuire, an attorney with the ACLU of Connecticut, said the organization hopes the law becomes a national model. New Jersey’s attorney general collects some stun-gun data from police in that state, but this would be the first law to require it, he said.

“It will really give a lot of insight into how Tasers are being used and who they are being used on,” he said.

Cromwell Police Chief Anthony Salvatore, the legislative chair of the Connecticut police chief’s association, said every department that uses electrical weapons already trains its officers in their proper use. But Salvatore, who helped write the stun-gun procedures for the state training council, said the police chiefs are not opposed to the new law.

“We developed these policies after bringing several groups together to address these concerns,” he said.

Among other things, the policies prohibit the use of stun guns “in a punitive or coercive manner,” on handcuffed criminals or when someone can be “reasonably dealt with in any other less intrusive fashion.” It also outlines when they can be used simply to induce compliance through pain, rather than to disable a suspect.

Scot X. Esdaile, the president of the state chapter of the NAACP, said his organization has been pushing for a ban on stun gun use since 2011, when a handcuffed African-American man died after being shocked by Waterbury police.

“These have been used as instruments of torture, not as they sold it to us originally, as an alternative to deadly force,” he said. “This is an important step.”

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/connecticut-track-stun-gun-23915790

Stun Gun Use- Connecticut Could Be First to Track Police USE

Stun Gun Provided in Theft - Milwaukee

A man is convicted for providing a stun gun  in a $5 million dollar theft. More on the story provided by greenfieldreporter.com:

A man pleaded guilty Wednesday to providing the stun gun used to rob a concert master of a $5 million Stradivarius violin.

Universal K. Allah, 36, faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $50,000 fine when he’s sentenced in late July.

Allah provided the stun gun used to attack and rob a violin concert master in January, according to the criminal complaint. The concert master dropped the instrument, and the robber grabbed it, jumped into a waiting vehicle and fled.

Allah told investigators the thief was 42-year-old Salah Salahadyn, a Milwaukee man who previously served prison time following the theft of a $25,000 statue. Salahadyn had also been heard talking about stealing high-end art, and said his “dream theft” was to snatch a Stradivarius violin because of its potential value and because it could be taken from a musician walking down the street, a confidential source told police.

Salahadyn is also charged with being a party to felony robbery. He pleaded not guilty in February, but his attorney has requested another plea date. A second plea hearing typically would not be scheduled unless the accused person was considering changing a plea. That hearing is set for June 30.

The 300-year-old violin, which has been appraised for insurance purposes at $5 million, was missing for nine days before police recovered it in good condition. It was found in a suitcase in the attic of a Milwaukee home where Salahadyn’s acquaintances lived, although police said the homeowner didn’t know what was in the suitcase.

Allah’s defense attorney, Paul Ksicinski, didn’t immediately return a message Wednesday. The criminal complaint says Allah wasn’t at the scene of the robbery, Ksicinski has said.

Many Stradivarius violins, crafted by renowned Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari, are owned by private collectors who lend them to top violinists to be played in symphonies. Experts say a Stradivarius violin degrades with disuse but remains in good condition when played regularly.

Experts estimate 600 to 650 Stradivarius instruments remain — about half of what the master produced — and they can be worth millions of dollars each.

Violin thefts are rare, perhaps because thieves know the instruments would be hard to sell. Experts say high-value instruments are almost always well-documented with photographs and easily identified, even if they’re being sold halfway around the world.

http://www.greenfieldreporter.com/view/story/8adbcd155bc34f1b87a4415f4ce9e173/US–Violin-Theft-Milwaukee

 

Stun Gun Provided in Theft - Milwaukee

Women Self Defense- New class Helps Women Defend Themselves

A women self defense class is helping women learn to better defend themselves. More on the story from TimesLeader.com:

One worst-case scenario for a woman is to be in imminent danger at the hands of an attacker who is stronger, heavier or taller.

 

Emma Hivner, 14, and Sarah Stevens, 36, were among a group of 10 women who took the first women’s only self-defense class offered at Pride Lands Brazilian JiuJitsu in Clarks Summit on May 21.

 

The class was aimed at teaching women how to move their bodies in ways “they never thought they could,”black belt instructor Jason Ratchford said.

 

Hivner and Stevens have been practicing Jiu Jitsu for a few months and know their way around the mat.

 

“It gives me a lot of self-confidence because not a lot of girls can say they come down to the gym to train with the guys,” Hivner said. “It’s also self-motivating. For girls, it teaches you to stand up for yourself.”

 

In three months of training, Hivnerhas learned wrestling moves, submissions, choke holds and arm bars .

 

Stevens, who is a blue belt, believes self-defense classes provides a certain kind of strength for women.

 

“Knowing what I know gives me a peace of mind. I tell my daughter practicing Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is something every girl should do,” she said. “It’s teaches a smaller person to defend themselves against a larger person. It’s all about technique over muscle.”

 

Stature and age seemed to have little bearing on the women’s objectives to partake in the class that began with a series of strength and conditioning exercises led by assistant coach, Robert Hivner. The warm up included forward rolls, push-ups and laps around the perimeter of the room, before Ratchford and Hivner demonstrated leverage and body positioning techniques that focused on building core body strength.

 

“If your core is weak, your whole body is weak,” Ratchford said.

 

The Clarks Summit resident is offering the class to give women a sense of empowerment, “to let them know they don’t have to become a victim. … That through proper use of technique and leverage they can overcome a stronger assailant. … My sister, Sarah, my daughter Makenna and my student, Kendra McHugh all have gained tremendous confidence and technique from Jiu-Jitsu.”

 

Ratchford said that while a lot of other martial arts focus on striking or overpowering a man, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu really “engages the inevitable.”

 

Pride Lands BJJ Academy is headed by brothers Jason and Matthew Ratchford, both black belts under the Legendary Alison “Jucao” Brites, according to the academy’s web site. Brazilian Jiu Jitsu has its roots in the Japanese Jiu-Jitsu of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and found its way to Brazil in 1910, when Mitsuyo Maeda, a Japanese Jiu Jitsu and Judo expert immigrated to the country. There he became friends with Gastao Gracie, an influential businessman who helped Maeda get established.

 

Ratchford, a certified IBJJF Black Belt has been a student of martial arts for more than 16 years. In 1994, he began training and competing in Judo and earned the rank of brown belt.

 

“The main thing that differentiates this program and school from every other school is it puts the girls in a real world situation,” Hivner said. “It’s very relevant to what an attacker would do. It’s very real, live, active and engaging.”

Women Self Defense- New class Helps Women Defend Themselves

Self Defense Pepper Spray Saves a Man from a Bear Attack

A man was saved from a bear attack by a can of self defense pepper spray here is the rest of the story from Edmont Journal:

EDMONTON – A mountain biker escaped serious injury Saturday when a grizzly bear he encountered punctured a can of pepper spray in his backpack.

“(The bear) certainly shredded that can,” said Steve Malcolm, a human wildlife conflict specialist with Jasper National Park.

“That would have been a nasty explosion into his mouth.”

Around 9 p.m., the lone cyclist crossed paths with a grizzly in the Cottonwood Slough area near Jasper. The bear charged, likely because it was startled, knocking the man off his bike face-down on the ground. The bear bit into the man’s backpack, bursting the can of pepper spray inside.

The Jasper man called park staff on his cellphone. They took him to hospital where he was treated and later released.

He suffered minor injuries, mostly from the pepper spray, but he did have claw marks and bruises on his back.

Malcolm said it wasn’t a predatory attack.

“(The bear) just wants to get rid of the threat and try to take off out of the area, so it’s not really an unsafe bear,” he said.

“However if this continued to happen every three or four days … then this would be a serious concern for us.”

Bears are “extremely food-stressed” right now because they’re just coming out of hibernation, Malcolm said. All of the food is in the valley bottoms, so it’s an active place for predators and prey.

The area around Patricia Lake and Cottonwood Slough will be shut down for three to four days to allow the bear to move on and ensure visitor safety, said Kim Weir, a spokeswoman for the park.

Visitors are urged to be vigilant and to carry pepper spray and a cellphone. Hikers and cyclists should be in groups, and should notify someone of their plans before setting out.

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/edmonton/escapes+after+grizzly+bear+sets+pepper+spray+near+Jasper/9876454/story.html

Self Defense Pepper Spray Saves a Man from a Bear Attack

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You might ask yourself, Do I really need any sort of self defense weapons? Well, the answer to that is this. Most crime victims after being interviewed say that they always thought it would never happen to them. That they always thought that it happens to other people but, not them. Or they thought they lived in a safe neighborhood and they didn’t need any sort of self defense tools. Don’t be one of those people.

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The self defense tools that we offer are top of the line and are very effective against crime. Like our tasers and stun guns. The major difference between these two self defense products is how they pass electrical current. And if your attacker is able to take you by surprise and knock you down, you will still be able to adequately defend yourself. And the knuckle blaster stun gun packs a whalloping 950,000 volts, which gives you all the power you will ever need to defend yourself.

Our self defense pepper spray lasts anywhere from a few minutes to an hour, depending on how much has been sprayed. So that will give you lots of time to get out of there. Our self defense pepper spray is a very common choice for women self defense and effective to.

Our tasers are our most costly solution for women self defense or any self defense weapons use for that matter but, they are much more effective and safe for the users because they can be activated from up to five feet from your attacker. This means you have the ability to catch your assailant by surprise and regain the upper hand. A great deal, actually.

Of course arming citizens does not sit well with Law Enforcement Agencies..They are concerned that this would only aggravate an already bad situation but, remember a street fight is a potentially lethal encounter, which means your life is at stake and it is your constitutional right to protect your life and your property.


Most think the way to deal with unbridled crime is to allow the police to deal with this epidemic. How well you do in life will depend on your ability to manage the demands of each defending yourself in a bad situation.

Crime is everywhere and self defense should always be your concern. So, buying a canister of the self defense pepper spray or a taser or stun gun is surely a step in the right direction, but you have to remember that it is only a tiny step when it comes to preparing yourself against a mugging scene or a violent street fight.

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