The baton gun has been in regular use in Northern Ireland but has never been deployed on the mainland. Billed as a safer alternative to conventional firearms, it fires a 3in plastic bullet and is ...

The Metropolitan Police were today showcasing the plastic bullet-firing baton guns that will soon be deployed to firearms officers. The Home Office authorised the weapon as a "less lethal" option ...

Nara prefectural police believe Tetsuya Yamagami, 41, the murder suspect, used commercially available bullets with his homemade gun. The gun ... metallic barrels and plastic pieces that appear ...