Anti-Riot Tangle Gun 7
Production information
Manufacturer	Merr-Sonn Munitions, Inc[1]
Model	7[1]
Type	Snare rifle[1]
Cost	300[1]
Physical and technical specifications
Capacity	15 pellets[1]
Range	Short: 3–10 meters[1] Medium: 11–19 meters[1] Long: 20–25 meters[1]
Usage and history
Purpose	Crowd control[1]
Era(s)	Rebellion era[1]
Affiliation	Galactic Empire[1]

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The Anti-Riot Tangle Gun 7 was a crowd-control snare rifle manufactured by Merr-Sonn Munitions, Inc for use by the Galactic Empire. The gun fired a pellet that, when exposed to air, explosively expanded into a multi-meter-wide webbed net that enveloped its victim and then shrank, thus immobilizing the target. Sometimes the webbing contracted too tightly, causing the victim to suffocate and die.

DescriptionEdit

The Anti-Riot Tangle Gun 7 was a snare rifle that shot a Naorstrachem pellet mixed with a shrinking agent. The pellet, when exposed to air, explosively expanded into a webbed net several meters in width. The net automatically contracted as soon as it came into contact with a warm surface, such as a living body. It then adhered around the target and tightened, trapping the target almost instantly. However, a problem with tangle guns like the Tangle Gun 7 was that the webbing often contracted too much, resulting in the target being suffocated—and sometimes killed—by the intense contraction of the webbing.^[1]

The gun carried a load of fifteen pellets and had a short range of three to ten meters, a medium range of eleven to nineteen meters, and a long range of twenty to twenty-five meters. The weapon cost 300 credits.^[1]

HistoryEdit

The tangle gun was produced by Merr-Sonn Munitions, Inc for use by the Galactic Empire. Considered more humane than a blaster, the Anti-Riot Tangle Gun was often used when non-lethal force was needed. Therefore, when Imperial policy went from one of seduction to one of brute force, the weapon was mostly mothballed.^[1]

The gun was included in General Airen Cracken's field guide for the Alliance to Restore the Republic. The weapon's article was accompanied by an illustration of the gun along with a depiction of a Duros caught in the gun's webbing.^[1]

Behind the scenesEdit

The Anti-Riot Tangle Gun 7 was introduced in Cracken's Rebel Field Guide, a reference book written by Christopher Kubasik for the West End Games Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game, which was published in June 1991.^[1]

SourcesEdit

• Cracken's Rebel Field Guide
•  The Far Orbit Project

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