Have you ever wondered how stun guns actually work? And why it doesn't electrocute someone even though they've
been hit with a 300,000 volts stun gun, or higher? Here is a brief explanation of the workings of a stun gun and the affects of the stun gun effects on a body.
The inner workings of a stun gun are simple, transformers boost the voltage from as little as
9 volts to 100,000 volts and more depending on the model and how many batteries it uses. It directs the voltage to one electrode
and then whoever it touches becomes the conductor to a second electrode and all that juice to passes through their body.
According to the laws of electricity, the amperage goes down as the voltage goes up and a 9 volt battery
starts out with very low amperage. So the mechanical stun gun effects are that it sends a lot of electricity into
someone but with very little real power behind it. This is the key to why stun guns don't elecrocute you.
The body end of the stun gun effects is that it disrupts the
neuro-electric impulses from the brain to the muscles. Because this is done with electricity and
high voltage, it sends false signals directly to the muscles, causing them to rapidly contract, depleting them of their blood sugar and leaving them temporarily unable
to produce more for more energy. The person who is stunned no longer has the strength or control of their muscles to hold themselves
up and they wind up on the ground. After some time has passed and nutrients return to
the muscles, they start working again and the stunned individual is fine.
Stun guns have been steadily gaining in popularity as a self defense tool with law enforcement agencies,
as well as private citizens, because they pretty much always
do the job they were intended for. There are often good reasons for someone to need a powerful self defense
device but carrying a stun gun whose effects are meant to disable temporarily rather than a gun whose effects
are meant to kill permanently seems to be a choice that can protect your conscience as well as your body.
This could easily qualify as the most important of the stun gun effects.
