I always assumed the 'drive stun' was putting the cartridge against someone to complete the circuit, and that a 'dry fire' was what some officers refer to when they took the cartridge off and used the Taser as a 'stun gun', if you will. In the email, he was telling all the other officers to read my report and learn from it, but was calling the move I described a 'dry fire'. In response, he sent out our Taser policy to all the officers since most of us are new.
This was the first Taser deployment I've had (only been carrying it for 2 weeks), so I had some questions for me Chief. A TASER device, with cartridge removed, making an electric spark between its two electrodes Police issue X26 TASER device with cartridge installed Raysun X-1, a multi-purpose handheld weapon. We were taught this was called a 'Drive Stun'. In fact, even when I got tased in training, it only affected the parts of my body between the two probes (one leg from hip to ankle in my case). When I went through Taser training, we were all taught that if you shoot someone with the barbs and they don't make good contact, you could push the end of the taser cartridge against their body to complete the circuit. It's possible to get secondhand tased if you touch a part of the body which is between the two probes from the Taser or the probes themselves.
CHECKED LUGGAGE, IT CANNOT BE CARRIED ON BOARD. EDIT: Title of this thread should read 'DRIVE stun' or 'dry fire', not 'dry stun' or 'dry fire' IF GOING ON AN AIRPLANE, YOU MUST PUT THE TASER CONDUCTED ENERGY WEAPONS IN YOUR.
