Feb. 19—Question : Are pepper ball launchers legal for adults in Honolulu to own and carry outside of one's home ? The launchers are similar to a paintball gun except it shoots a ball filled with ...

UCLA police, who were called on to handle some of the nation’s largest campus protests over the Israel-Hamas war last spring, are asking for approval to double their stockpile of pepper balls and ...

An LAPD officer holds a less-lethal launcher as fellow officers take a protester into custody during recent demonstrations in the Fairfax District. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) Police call it a ...

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — The Los Angeles Police Department will have to restrict its use of less-lethal projectile launchers against crowds at demonstrations, a federal judge ruled Monday. In the order, ...

MUNCIE, Ind. — A correctional officer at the Delaware County jail has been fired over allegations he discharged a PepperBall launcher into a cellblock, striking a prisoner with a projectile. In a ...

LOS ANGELES — A federal judge Monday issued orders restricting the Los Angeles Police Department’s use of 40mm and 37mm projectile launchers against crowds of protesters, allowing their use only ...

A Glens Falls man is accused of firing a pepper projectile launcher into a vehicle. Police say it was a case of road rage. Joshua P. Alexander, 43, was involved in a dispute with another driver while ...

MADISON, Wis. -- Madison police used a projectile launcher to subdue a man who they said was threatening to harm people with a knife on State Street Wednesday evening. Officers found the man in the ...

Police call it a “40-millimeter Less-Lethal Launcher,” but to those who have found themselves on the business end of the weapon during recent protests, the wounds feel deadly serious. And unjustified.