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A little history of pepper spray and stun guns

January 11th, 2012 | Add a Comment

Even though using pepper spray didn’t start to be popular as a self defense product until the 1980′s, history discloses that red chili pepper was in use for personal protection in ancient India and China. There are quite a few historical documents showing it’s use in China thousands of years ago. Chinese people and even warriors had a innovative technique of making use of this spice; and it included wrapping grounded cayenne in rice papers making it easy to throw in the faces of people and break. It was favored as a weapon of choice for self defense because it would incapacitate a person momentarily. The secret martial art society in ancient Japan called the Ninjas has been using grounded pepper for disabling their adversaries for hundreds of years. Historical data … Read entire article »

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