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(Tasers)...
While they claim their product isn't designed to be used on animals, there are other reports that it works effectively againt them.
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It might work just fine, and in a lot of situations a Taser would be great. But a raid is not one of those places for two reasons:
1. Tasers occasionally fail. One of my friends in a Florida dept. had his fail (ctg. popped out or somesuch; don't recall exactly) and one of his deputies ended up having to shoot the guy instead.
2. If you're busy operating the Taser whilst the subject is shooting you, the dog has done it's job. They are not "fire and forget".
Similar to other posts here, 9mm and 5.56 just do not incapacitate a determined dog quickly enough, IME. Even half a mag of hollowpoints from a canned MP5 take awhile. Pity you cannot shoot the jerks who deploy these poor critters. And even buckshot will sing right through a wall, etc.
I would suggest 12-ga. *frangible* slug. Total energy dump and minimal risk of overpenetration. Many of the common Breaching slugs (like AVON) will work, and have the advantage that if someone pops up firing at you, it'll work on them as well.
FWIW...
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