A long time standard among US federal law enforcement agencies, the small, one (1) once canister and popular “trigger-top” firing mechanism has been the choice of the FBI and the Federal law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) for naerly twenty (20) years.  

Since the consolidation of Customs, the Border Patrol, and the inspectional functions of the Immigration and Naturalization Service into a new parent organization called the Customs and Border Protection Bureau (CBP), CBP has researched and evaluated a number of weaponry options to increase the safety of their personnel. The below items meet the physical, operational, and quality requiremnts of CBP.

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