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Former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik, left, speaks in the Roosevelt Room at the White House Friday, Dec. 3, 2004 after President Bush announced Kerik as his choice to replace Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge. Kerik made $6.7 million by selling stock given him by a stun gun manufacturer that contracts with the Department of Homeland Security and who is seeking new business. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)	Jobanka Pesut inserts electronics to the circuit boards, during the stun gun assembly at Taser International, Wednesday, June 30, 2004, in Scottsdale, Ariz.(AP Photo/Roy Dabner)
Taser International employee Lucy Lazarova assembles the law enforcement version of the popular stun gun Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2004 at the company's headquarters in Scottsdale, Ariz. The company's stock has soared but there are growing concerns about whether the stun guns are truly as non-lethal as advertised. (AP Photo/Tom Hood)	The production area at Taser International, is shown Wednesday, June 30, 2004, in Scottsdale, Ariz. Taser International Inc. won a $1.8 million contract to provide stun guns to military personnel _ the company's largest order ever. The deal announced Wednesday follows a previous smaller order by the U.S. Army for stun guns and accessories used in Iraq and a $1.5 million order from a foreign military for more than 3,000 Tasers announced last year. The vast majority of the company's sales have been to local law enforcement agencies.(AP Photo/Roy Dabner)
Steve Tuttle, director of communications for Taser International, Inc., holds the X26c stun gun Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2004 at the company's headquarters in Scottsdale, Ariz. The gun is offered to the general public for about $1,000. The company's stock has soared but there are growing concerns about whether the stun guns are truly as non-lethal as advertised. (AP Photo/Tom Hood)	Minneapolis Sgt. Ron Bellendier shows the business end of a Taser stun gun, Oct. 4, 2004, in Minneapolis. Minnesota stores will soon be able to sell stun guns as powerful as those used by police, despite growing concerns about the weapon's safety and occasional fatalities. No permit or training is required in Minnesota for the $999 consumer model of the Taser, which is already available on the Internet. The Star Tribune reported Sunday, Oct. 17, 2004, that it has documented 105 cases nationwide since 1983 in which a person died after being shocked by police with an electric stun weapon. Three people have died in Minnesota in the past 14 months, the newspaper said. (AP Photo/Star Tribune, David Brewster)
Hamilton, Ohio, Police Lt. Mike Martinsen holds a stun gun Monday, Dec. 8, 2003, in Hamilton, Ohio. The gun is similar to the one Cincinnati Mayor Charlie Luken is proposing the city buy for their police force following the death of Nathaniel Jones in police custody last week. Lt. Martinsen says they have been happy with the gun they have had in use for a year. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)	This April 17, 2003 photo shows a British policeman demonstrating a new stun gun. Electric stun guns are to be authorised for police firearms officers across England and Wales following a successful trial, it was announced Wednesday Sept. 15, 2004. Britain'sHome Secretary David Blunkett said scientific evaluations had shown the Taser guns had a "very low" risk of fatality. The American-manufactured weapons have been under controlled testing by five police forces since April last year as a less lethal alternative to conventional firearms. (AP Photo/PA,
Oklahoma City Police Sgt. Tyrone Reece demonstrates how a Taser stun gun works Thursday, June 17, 2004, in Oklahoma City. Police use of the Taser in Oklahoma City nearly doubled last year compared to 2002 as officers increasingly found the nonlethal weapon useful in apprehending dangerous suspects. (AP Photo/The Oklahoman, Bryan Terry)	Los Angeles Police Officer Joel Sydanmaa displays a stun gun disguised a cellular telephone, one of hundreds of contraband items taken from airline passengers at security checkpoints, on display at a news conference at Terminal 5 at Los Angeles International Airport Friday, Aug. 29, 2003. Transportation Security Administration officials urged travelers flying this Labor Day weekend be especially careful with the items they bring along. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
Joshua Langenheim, right, stands with his attorney, Damon Billack, in Cleveland Municipal Court, Monday, Nov. 3, 2003, in Cleveland. Judge C. Ellen Connally sentenced Langenheim to three months in jail for attacking homeless men with a stun gun and videotaping it. (AP Photo/The Plain Dealer, Lynn Ischay) ** MANDATORY CREDIT **	Defendant Greg LoRe, right, talks with his lawyer during a preliminary hearing in the Blount County General Sessions court on Wednesday Aug. 29, 2002. LoRe, a intern teacher in Maryville High Schools, is charged with kidnapping a teacher and shocking her with a stun gun to take nude photographs of her. (AP Photo/The Knoxville News-Sentinel, Amy Smotherman)
Famed daredevil stunt rider, Evel Knieval shown in this March 26, 1989 photo. A judge ordered the ex-daredevil _ true identity Robert Craig Knievel, 56 _ to spend 200 hours coaching youngsters on the importance of bicycle helmets.`It's a tough law,'' he told Superior Court Judge William Martin in pleading no contest Friday Sept. 22, 1995 to keeping a .44 Magnum handgun, a .38-caliber revolver, two knives and a stun gun in his car trunk. (AP Photo/David Cantor)	Steven Caruso, 44, appears during his arraignment on weapons charges in District Court Monday, Jan. 24, 2000 in Somerville, Mass. Caruso, accused of stalking a woman who was killed by a package bomb was held on $5,000 bail Monday. A search of Caruso's Medford home Friday night uncovered four unlicensed guns: two handguns and two rifles. Police also found a stun gun and two high-capacity ammunition magazines. Prosecutors don't officially have any suspects in the murder of Sandra Berfield, 32, who died Thursday when she opened a package bomb left at her Everett home. (AP Photo/Boston Herald, William B. Plowman, POOL)
At the Greenville County Law Enforcement Centerin Greenville, S.C., Monday, May 10, 2004, Greenville police officer Chad Austin reacts to being shocked with a Taser gun by Taser instructor Sgt. Mark Huntington, right, as fellow officers Allan Johnson. left, and Mike Harmon, on right in uniform, hold him. Each officer in Taser training was shocked for one second by the Taser needles which were attached to their ankles. In a criminal situation the needles attached to wires would be shot from the gun into the suspect's skin. The needles can pierce two to three inches through clothing, said Huntington. (AP Photo/The Greenville News, Owen Riley Jr. )	Farmington, Conn., police Sgt. Keith Zengel holds a taser gun that is in use by his department in Farmington on Thursday, Oct. 28, 2004. The gun can also be used as a stun gun as demonstrated in the photo where electricity can be seen arcing across the front of the gun. Zengel says that the tasers are very useful in subduing people they may want to arrest, as they minimize the risk of serious injury not only to police officers but also to those whom they are seeking to take into custody. (AP Photo/Bob Child)
Steve Tuttle, Director of Communications at Taser International, aims the Taser X-26 model, at a target, Wednesday, June 30, 2004, in Scottsdale, Ariz. Taser International announced a $1.8 million contract to provide stun guns to military personnel.(AP Photo/Roy Dabner)	Marine Lance Corp. Cody Alford is zapped with an electrical charge from a Taser gun at Camp Pendleton, Calif., Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2004, during a demonstration at the Marine West 2004 Exposition which showed off a wide variety of new military equipment. Pfc. John Longoria, right, and Shawn Spencer from Taser International hold onto Alford as he is lowered to the ground due to his muscle incapacitation from the Taser. (AP Photo/ North County Times, Bill Wechter)
Cincinnati Mayor Charlie Luken, left, watches as Cincinnati police officer John Rose, right in forground, demonstrates the use of a taser on a struggling suspect in Cincinnati city council chambers Wednesday Dec. 17, 2003. Cincinnati may buy tasers for all of their officers. The taser being used during the demonstration was not using electricity. (AP Photo/Tom Uhlman)	Farmington, Conn., police Sgt. Keith Zengel holds the two darts Thursday Oct. 28, 2004, that are shot from the taser gun that is in use by his department and which jolt a subject with a momentary 50,000 volts of electricity. Zengel says that the tasers are very useful in subduing people they may want to arrest. as they minimize the risk of serious injury not only to police officers, but also to those whom they are seeking to take into custody. (AP Photo/Bob Child)
Cpl. Tom Shudan, center, of the Blount County Sheriff's Office is supported by training officer Sgt. Rick Baker, left, and School Resource Officer Lisa Hoard as Taser Inc. instructor Mike Voncannon fires the weapon during a training demonstration held at the Blount County Sheriff's Office on Thursday, Oct. 14, 2004. Officers from a dozen local law enforcmement agencies attended the two-day Taser school to serve as instructors for their agencies. The officers were being certified to use the tool. (AP Photo/The Daily Times, Daryl Sullivan)	A 15-second time exposure shows the red aiming laser and the blue flashes of electricity from an M26 Advanced Taser at the Marion, Iowa, Police Department Tuesday, June 7, 2004. The non-lethal force weapon uses Electro-Muscular Disruption (EMD) to override the central nervous system. A 50,000 volt, 26-watt charge causes an uncontrollable contraction of muscle tissue. A normal hit from the Taser lasts for five seconds. The time allows officers to subdue the subject before that person can recover. (AP Photo/The Gazette, Jim Slosiarek)
Fred Luddington, owner of Ludco Gun Shop in Parker City, Ind., displays one of two TASER pistols he's donating to the Parker City town marshal for use by local police officers Saturday, Nov. 15, 2003. The TASER pistol is a less-than-lethal alternative weapon for law enforcement personnel to use against a potentially violent subject. Luddington says he hopes his donation may help to prevent another occurrence similar to the incident at Ball State University in Muncie, Ind., last week were a police officer shot and killed an unarmed student. (AP Photo/The Star Press, Joe Krupa)	Margaret Kimbrell, 75, of Rock Hill, who was zapped with a police taser on Oct. 15 while visiting a friend at the Eden Gardens assisted living facility in Rock Hill, poses in her house Tuesday Oct. 29, 2004 in Rock Hill, S.C. Police say she was trespassing and resisting arrest, charges she denies. (AP Photo/The Observer, Nichole Monroe Bell)
Vermont State Trooper Andrew Campagne demonstrates his newly issued Taser gun on Oct. 13, 2004, in Rutland, Vt. The Vermont State Police have added the weapon to their arsenal to control violent offenders. (AP Photo/Rutland Herald, Vyto Starinskas)	** FILE ** Former Missouri player Ernest Blackwell is shown in this Sept. 15, 1997 file photo in Columbia, Mo. Blackwell shot his stepdaughter and attacked neighbors, then died after struggling with police, authorities said Thursday, Aug. 12, 2004. Officers used several means to try and subdue Blackwell, including shooting him twice with a Taser, which delivers an electrical jolt, during a 10-minute struggle. Paramedics eventually sedated Blackwell, who was 6-foot-3 and weighed 230 pounds during his college playing days, and put him in an ambulance. He died on the way to the hospital. (AP Photo/The Kansas City Star, John Sleezer)
** FILE ** Alfred Diaz, 29, shown in this Orange County Sheriff's Office photo, died early Sunday morning, April 18, 2004, after he was subdued with at least two jolts from deputies' Taser stun guns while in the custody of Orange County deputies who said they had to restrain him because of his erratic behavior. The exact cause of death was unknown pending an autopsy, said Capt. Bernie Presha. (AP Photo/The Orlando Sentinel)	Children's tricycles are shown out front at the Church of the Nazarene's New Horizons for Children day care center in Plymouth Township, Mich., where police officers shot and killed Robert Van Buren, 35, who invaded the facility, Friday morning, July 23, 2004. The officers claimed they used Tasers and police clubs but could not subdue him. Plymouth Township Police Chief Thomas Tiderington suggested that Van Buren might have had mental issues during a press conference at his headquarters. "He was attacking our officers. Our officers were fighting for their lives," said Tiderington. The officers are now on paid vacation. (AP Photo/Detroit Free Press, Amy Leang)
Cincinnati Vice Mayor Alicia Reece holds up a local newspaper article on tasers during a hearing Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2003, in city council chambers in Cincinnati. Cincinnati Mayor Charlie Luken has proposed the city purchase stun guns for their police force following the death of Nathaniel Jones in police custody last week. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)	Dane County Deputy Sheriff Krist Boldt, right, falls after being shocked by a M26 Taser gun (an Electronic Control Device) fired by Sgt. Pat Price during a press demonstration at the Sheriff's Department in Madison, Wis., Friday, April 18, 2003. It went awry when Boldt missed the mat hitting his head on the floor. He suffered a severe cut and possible concussion. (AP Photo/The Capital Times, David Sandell)
Clay Winn, of TASER International, demonstrates the company's Advanced M-26 model during a news conference in Las Vegas, Friday May 17, 2002. Several airlines, including United, plan to deploy the weapon on airplanes pending FAA approval. (AP Photo/Joe Cavaretta)	Tom Smith, president of Taser International, demonstrates the M-26 Advanced Taser at his company's facility Nov. 6, 2001, in Scottsdale, Ariz. In the latest steps to improve safety in the skies, United Airlines on Thursday, Nov. 15, 2001, became the first major U.S. carrier to say it will arm its pilots with stun guns. United also said it is starting a special training program for flight attendants, aimed at both self-protection and assisting passengers. (AP Photo/Matt York)