Patent ID: 6922931

Claim:
A weapon comprising a firearm having a butt-end and a fore-end, a barrel through which a projectile may be propelled, a mechanism including a projectile firing trigger, wherein said butt-end includes a first hand-grip and said projectile firing trigger is mounted adjacent said first hand-grip said projectile firing trigger operable by a digit of a first hand of an operator grasping the said first hand-grip, and a fluid ejection mechanism for selectively ejecting a stream of fluid in a direction substantially parallel to the axis of the barrel, wherein said fluid ejection mechanism includes a housing mounted on the fore-end of the firearm said housing having a longitudinal axis and constituting a second hand-grip, and mounted in the housing a fluid containing canister having an outlet moveable between fluid retaining and fluid releasing positions and biased by a biasing force into the fluid retaining position, a nozzle mounted in the housing upstream of the outlet with fluid released from the canister passing through said nozzle, and a fluid release mechanism, and wherein said housing comprises a front face and a rear face each spaced radially from the said longitudinal axis of the said housing, said front face including an opening, wherein fluid ejected through said nozzle passes through said opening, and wherein said rear face includes an opening, and wherein said fluid release mechanism includes a fluid releasing trigger accessible through said opening and, in use fingers of second hand of the operator extending around the said front face of the said housing, and a thumb of said second hand passing through said opening and engaging with said fluid releasing trigger and closing on itself to operate said fluid releasing trigger, characterised in that the said fluid releasing trigger is movable in a direction substantially opposite to the direction of the biasing force biasing the said nozzle to its closed position.