Flash-Ball is a registered trademark for a French less-lethal hand-held projectile launcher designed in 1990 by the hunting firearms manufacturer Verney-Carron and produced from 1995 onward as an alternative to lethal firearms, bean-bag rounds and plastic bullets for riot police. Built in side-by-side and over-and-under two-barrel versions chambered for a 44x83mm cartridge, it is a striker-fired, double-action launcher used by police forces in France, by Macau's Special Operations Group, by Portugal's Public Security Police and by Indonesia's National Police. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Weapon Classless-lethal projectile launcher 1 Introduced Year Classification
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1. Wikipedia: Flash-ball
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1995-present
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Flash-Ball is a registered trademark for a less-lethal hand-held projectile launcher developed by French hunting firearms manufacturer Verney-Carron.
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Wikidata Q15984574, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
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