First.

Yes, first to be banned today.

haha as seen on Rob and Big...

I want one of these... bad

I like how the target stands still. Ensure your target does the same for proper use.

Side Note: In one clip, the guy had a gun. I've got a feeling someone would get shot.

A net gun that works! All of the net guns I've ever had just manage to mess up the guy's hair a little bit. I am SO getting one of these.

Rob and Big approve

Steps closer to a real ZF-1.

"Now a real killer, when he picked up the ZF-1, would've immediately asked about the little red button on the bottom of the gun."

@clyparkr: Thats the first thing I thought. Poor Drama...

Well, that was a minor inconvenience.

Somehow "don't net me bro" just doesn't have the same ring to it.

Approved Product of the Guild of Calamitous Intent

"This is the first net gun I've used that actually works!"
-Brock Samson

Yeah I'm also impressed by the "workiness" of this thing. Can we get a sub-$500 grappling hook launcher that actually works now???

@Lorne:
+10 points for brock samson reference

@TonyTriple:
Ah, you beat me to it by 9 minutes, and you got Brock's quote right.
Go Team Venture!

Soon to be a favorite tool of fascist/communist governments and tin-pot dictatorships everywhere. It doesn't stop dissent, it prevents it!

Not impressed until the net is electrified and/or automatically constricts after ensnarement.

@GiltProto:
Oh i think they'll stick with tried and true rubber bullets and water cannons. Only the most special of escaped genetic engineering experiments warrants such an over-the-top capture.

it's SPIDER-HAM!! this simpsons crap of spider-pig is just wrong. SPIDER-HAM fits way better. who could forget peter porker? loved that mag...bring it back!

Eh ghads, netted again, thankfully I've got my trusty sewing scissors!

I'm holding out for the "all-new Ice Cube System".

Bring me the priest.

these are only for no can shoot straight leetle feesh, no?

@Jesus Diaz:
Nice. TY. Saved me entering in my usual "WTF are you 14 yrs old?!?!" comment.

@nutbastard:

"Where DO you get those wonderful toys...."

Jay (not the Joker)

Wow this would work really well against silent film villains. They always flail around like 5 year olds having tantrums when someone throws a tarp or whatever over them. I have to assume that an actual gun or knife wielding assailant would just shoot or stab through the thin nylon webbing. After that they could cut through or untangle it at their leisure, while watching your corpse cool.

Of course this weapon was designed by the Chinese government. What better tool to haul of tibetan monks for torture.

@strider_mt2k:
Once again, just dont push the red button.

Comic geek moment: It wasn't a "genetically modified radioactive spider". It was either a genetically modified spider, or a radioactive spider. Depends on which timeline you want to pay attention to. If you're talking about the movie (given the Kirsten Dunst reference) then there's no radioactivity involved.

Carry on. :)

At least its not organic...don't get me started on that one

@CColdsmoke: I second that.

@Claystil: Tazers?

They need to make it easier to load. Maybe have disposable single use cartridges.

Great product though. Could be so much better for law enforcement to use than tasers and guns.

Didn't someone use one of these on Arnold Schwarzenegger in "The running man"?

Didn't know Giz was a half-season behind on their Rob & Big watching. Looks like they were catching up on their TIVO this weekend...

Don't net me bro!

I'd feel a lot better about this if the "good guys" wielding this weren't the Chinese military. But I suppose it's more humane than their usual tools of "persuasion".

While I'm not a huge fan of the way the Chinese police operates, must I remind you folks that western police forces use "less-than-letal" weapons that make this seem like a very tame alternative?

@Guizzy: you're right, but the point is what happens AFTER they're captured. The PAP (pictured firing the net) are notorious for torturing those they capture.

rob and big

@Claystil: And the CIA is not?

Isn't it the US where presidential candidates consider waterboarding to be a a-ok way of obtaining information?

Reading the Amnesty International files on the USA and China, they pretty much both seem to be pretty awful. Before pointing the failings of another country to make themselves feel better about their own human right abuses, perhaps americans should put the effort into cleaning up their own act.

This bad boy is a Bolo Trap, I learn that from Kraven the Hunter

I almost bought one last year. The modle you are looking at is the gunpowder fired one. You cant order it in single quantities. They do have a spring loaded one that is single shot for about $300... and that pic is olllldddddddd

@Guizzy: @Guizzy: I've been a member of amnesty for more than a decade. I'm fully aware of the publicly released info on torture perpetrated by the U.S., and I believe whole heartedly that torture runs deeper than we know.

That said, I have met several people tortured by the Chinese government and having studied Chinese history (as well as American), I can promise you that torture in China is as commonplace as prisons an execution.

I can also assure you the U.S. government doesn't use rubber bullets and nets trying to capture the folks they torture. If they've captured someone it's because they surrendered their arms before they were killed. The Chinese, since they're typically torturing civilians, are more inclined to use non-lethal methods of capture.

There's also, to me, a pretty big difference betwene water boarding and decades of electricl torture, beatings, starvation. All of which the Chinese will readily extend to the family of the "criminal."

yeah...I feel like that would work on...no one. Sorry, It may wrap a net around someone standing still waiting for it to happen, but someone running away? Not a snowballs chance...

@Claystil:
"Damn, that used to be a gimme."

@MasterSauce:
Presumably the most appropriate time to use such a device would be when they were coming right at you.

oh kiki, she ain't been right lately:
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@Claystil: Thing is, the american government abroad has blurred the line between civilians and enemy soldiers with their war on terror, so I wouldn't say that the US would be above using this on civilians. And protesters would probably have a lot to say about the police not using rubber bullets and nets to capture the folk they torture.

I don't mean to minimize what happens in China, I'm simply sick and tired of the double-standard that is regularly applied to China. Had this weapon been developed in the United States, we wouldn't heard had any concerns about what this would be used for. Might even have had a few people thinking this is a "freedom weapon to catch 'em all stinky terrorists".

@Lorne: Point taken. The debate is pointless.

@Guizzy: I understand where you're coming from. Likewise, I wasn't trying to minimize human rights violations perpetrated by the U.S. government by mentioning some perpetrated by the Chinese government.

@Claystil: Aww, now you just deprived me of the witty retort I was preparing:

The US military develops a microwave pain ray: cool!
The Chinese police develops nets: evil!

Its like spider-man but with less crying

When will Britney use one of these things on the paparazzi?

@Abnormal: Comment of the day material.
Short and silly and I'm still giggling.

The people of Tibet are not peacefully demonstrating this time. They broke into shops, police stations, kiosks, and attacked the Chinese Embassy in London.

The Dalai Lama cannot justify any police brutality. It's going to happen (people dying) if you start attacking. They even attacked innocent Chinese citizens.

There's two sides to every story.

If they keep this up, I have no sympathy for them. It's a slippery slope downward.

** Disclosure: I am Chinese.

@Guizzy: AGREED. Although I'm not saying anyone here is but I'm tired of the typical know-nothing American who just joins the band wagon for fun.

Peng Xiaobo, who sells clothes in Lhasa, told state television seven family members were forced to jump from an upper floor when a mob set his ground-floor shop on fire.

His uncle and cousin were burned to death, while his wife suffered serious injuries, CCTV said.

"My cousin only turned 18 in December. She didn't dare jump when the stairs below were burning," Peng said in tears.

@Guizzy: And I was going to talk about the hundreds of thousands of Chinese (including Tibetans)held in "re-education" camps where they're tortured and often executed but decided this discussion was a bit silly.

@MBPro: Right, So Tibet has no right to riot after the Chinese government has exhibited decades of effort to systematically erase Tibetan culture by torturing and murdering ten's of
thousands of Tibetans - what they received for protesting peacefully? Oh, but CCTV says otherwise. My apologies.

This would be sweet to use with a Predator suit!

@Kaiser-Machead: You let me down. If you read what Serolf David said, you would not have wasted the 2 seconds of my life it took to read what he clearly stated as being a waste of time, and the 15 seconds it took to scroll all the way back to his comment to find who said just so I could tell you how bad you are at reading comments....21 seconds.

@Claystil: Never once did I say there's no pent up frustration and yea, the Chinese government did do horrendous things in the past.

But for modern China now things are different. Don't tell me they're murdering tens of thousands of Tibetans and etc, etc. You want to pull that bullshit then I'll bring in what the Japanese did to the Chinese, what Nazi Germany did to Jews, what US did to African Americans and the Native Americans, and so on.

Every country has shit to deal with.

PEACEFULLY demonstrating is the BEST way to get international attention. You think countries want to rally on for Tibet now as there are VIOLENT RIOTS? Hell no.

Tibetans have NO RIGHT to destroy property and attack other citizens. The Dalai Lama needs to stress PEACEFUL demonstrations before condemning China. Two wrongs don't make a right.

Now if you want to actually debate instead of typing in a quick cocky response, I'll dignify you with a response next time.