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Choosing the Right Personal Protection Items

by: sumfun_1( 1647Feedback score is 1000 to 4,999) Top 10000 Reviewer
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My name is Billy owner of Sumfun's Wholesale Products. My ebay user name is sumfun_1

Personal protection

Items like stun guns and pepper sprays are owned by 1 and 7 people. These numbers are increasing as more people need and want to protect themselves.

If you are buying these items please make sure that all OC contents are over 10% or your attacker will still be able to attack. The best pepper spray for the money that I have seen on the market is X Factor. The OC is 17% it's the hottest on the market for consumer use. Most police officers use 5 to 7% OC because they do not want a lawsuit as pepper spray stops the attacker from breathing for several minutes depending on the OC content. The best price I have seen on eBay for this pepper spray is We Got Security.OC 17% will stop an attacker from breathing for 12 to 20 seconds, long enough for you to get away. it has a red dye so that the attacker can be indentified. After the attacker looses breath there eyes will burn and they will not be able to see.

What is in a typical canister of pepper spray?

A: All pepper sprays have in common the following 3 components: 1) oleoresin capsicum (OC for short; the oily residue extracted from hot red peppers that naturally contains the active ingredient - capsaicin - that elicits an intense burning sensation), 2) a carrier, or base, fluid into which the oleoresin capsicum is mixed to thin and dilute it, and 3) a propellant that supplies the energy to expel the carrier and active ingredients from the can.

So a 17% OC with 2 Million SHU is a really super hot pepper spray. This spray is made by Police Magnum. The number one hottest spray on the market is X Factor it is 20% OC and 3 million SHU. Very very hot stuff.

What exactly is the “oleoresin capsicum” we see listed on the cans of pepper spray?

A: Before proceeding, a short vocabulary lesson is in order. Capsicum is the Latin word for pepper and is the genus-level designation for all peppers used in seasonings for hotness. Hence, oleoresin (oleo = oil and resin= extract obtained from a plant) capsicum (pepper) means quite literally "pepper extract in oil". When jalapenos (moderately hot), habaneros (fiery hot), or even bell peppers (no hotness at all) are finely ground, this pepper slurry mixed in vegetable oil literally becomes 'oleoresin capsicum'.

Oleoresin capsicum (abbreviated O.C.) is the oily mixture produced when the burning compounds, which naturally occur in hot red peppers, are extracted. O.C. is comprised primarily of a) carotenoids: the red pigments found in many vegetables, b) vegetable oils and, c) capsaicinoids, the compounds responsible for pungency. There are over 25 capsaicinoid compounds found in O.C., but only 3 are considered ‘active ingredients’ and are responsible for the "heat" or pungency of the solution: capsaicin, nordihydrocapsaicin and dihydrocapsaicin. The other capsaicinoids, while comprising a larger percentage of the O.C., are relatively inert with respect to their ability to elicit the burn response.

Above it was stated that OC is the oily mixture extracted from red peppers. But red peppers aren’t naturally oily. The oil in OC results from the process used to extract the active ingredient from ground peppers. Since capsaicinoids are highly soluble in oil, the slurry of freshly ground red peppers is saturated with vegetable oil then strained through fine sieves, leaving behind much of the plant cell wall matter. Some manufacturers use volatile solvents in combination with vegetable oil during the extraction process to reduce viscosity. This shortens the filtering time. Afterwards the volatile solvents are removed.

This capsaicinoid-rich oil is a deep red hue, however, because carotenoids in the peppers are too fine for the sieves to remove. Most oleoresin capsicum originates from red pepper growers in India and Africa. Further extraction and separation of capsaicin from the oil is expensive and since the target industry for most of this product is the commercial food business, vegetable oil is a choice medium for export and sale. Commercial food companies use OC to add hotness to everything from chili to salsa. The pepper spray manufacturing sector purchases this “food grade OC” in its thick, red state and combines it with a carrier chemical which dilutes and thins it out. Then, by adding a propellant to the canisters containing this mixture the contents can be expelled as “bear spray”.

Stun Guns

There are several out there. Depending on your taste and the amount you wish to spend. I do sell the Raptor brand stun gun. From my experience they have been an excellent brand for the money. With a full Lifetime Limited  warranty to the original owner. They range from 100,000 volts all the way up to 900,000 volts. The common buyer should only need 500,000 volts as this will do some serious damage to an attacker.

My Advice is choose a brand and item you feel comfortable with, check all prices as sometimes the cheap items are, get what you pay for type items. Most stun guns come with a 1 or 2 year warranty. All Raptor stun guns are warranted for Life. So make sure you consider that when purchasing your protection items. You can find Raptor stun guns at We Got Security. Stun guns will affect the bodies muscles, the attacker will lose body function and will fall to the ground. In most cases the attacker will loose motor function for 5 to 9 minutes. It only takes 3 seconds up to 1 minute for the attacker to fall to the ground, temporarly paralized ( depending on the voltage of the stun gun ). In my tests the stung gun gets the attention right away and they fall fast. In all of our tests the attackers once shocked fell to the ground within 3 seconds with a 500,000 volt Raptor stun gun. it took more than 4 minutes for them to stand and 8 minutes befor they recovered. The longer they are shocked the longer there muscles contract leaving them unable to move.

We also sell

Firefly Stun guns

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Black Cobra Stun Guns

 

Hope this was helpful information

 

Sincerely,

 

Sumfun's Wholesale Products

 


Guide ID: 10000000000026206Guide created: 10/13/05 (updated 09/05/08)

 
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