Patent ID: 7900388

Claim:
An electronic weapon that cooperates with a plurality of provided deployment units to impede locomotion by a target, each deployment unit comprises a plurality of provided wire-tethered electrodes for launching toward the target to impede locomotion by the target, the electronic weapon comprising: a first user-operated control; a second user-operated control; and a signal generator; wherein: each operation of the first control launches the electrodes of one deployment unit of the plurality of deployment units toward the target; an operation of the second control does not launch any electrodes of any deployment unit; responsive to each operation of the second control, the signal generator provides a current through the target via the electrodes of each launched deployment unit respectively, the current for contracting skeletal muscles of the target to impede locomotion by the target; and further responsive to an operation of the first control, the signal generator provides the current via the electrodes launched by the operation of the first control.