carry a stun gun
Topic: Self Defence Weapons. Activity pages act as clean lookup hubs rather than a second content source.
Activity overview
What this hub is for
This activity currently has 23 starter country rows in the reset dataset. The current sample leans toward restricted outcomes, which is enough to test browse flows without pretending the dataset is complete.
Starter comparison cards
These show the countries currently mapped for this activity in the reset dataset.
Belgium
Belgian Justice lists portable devices that use electric shocks to neutralise persons as prohibited weapons. Prohibited weapons cannot lawfully be possessed, bought, transported or carried by civilians.
Canada
Carrying a compact stun gun is not lawful in Canada for the public because the device is treated as a prohibited weapon.
Finland
Finland’s Public Order Act prohibits the manufacture, importation, trading, and possession in a public place or a vehicle in a public place of electric stunners and stun batons. A taser falls within that electric-shock category for this row.
Hong Kong
Carrying a stun gun in Hong Kong is not lawful for the public because a stunning device is treated as arms and possession requires a licence.
Ireland
Irish government guidance says stun guns are totally prohibited items and that importation or possession of stun guns is illegal without lawful authority. Tasers fall within that electric incapacitation category for this row.
Netherlands
Dutch weapons law treats a stroomstootwapen as a regulated category II weapon. The official sources reviewed do not identify a lawful ordinary civilian route to carry a stun gun for self-defence.
Norway
Norway’s weapon rules treat pepper spray and electroshock weapons as prohibited civilian self-defence weapons. The weapons regulation forbids acquiring, owning and possessing electroshock weapons, pepper spray and similar means.
United Kingdom
Carrying a stun gun in the United Kingdom is not lawful for the public because stun guns are treated as prohibited weapons under firearms law.
All current country rows
The table remains useful for auditing coverage and row state while the data is still sparse.
| Country | Status | Row state |
|---|---|---|
| Australia | Depends | verified |
| Belgium | No | verified |
| Canada | No | verified |
| Colombia | Depends | verified |
| Denmark | Depends | verified |
| Finland | No | verified |
| France | Depends | verified |
| Germany | Depends | verified |
| Hong Kong | No | verified |
| India | Unclear | verified |
| Ireland | No | verified |
| Japan | Depends | verified |
| Netherlands | No | verified |
| New Zealand | Depends | verified |
| Norway | No | verified |
| Poland | Depends | verified |
| Portugal | Depends | verified |
| Singapore | Depends | verified |
| South Korea | Depends | verified |
| Sweden | Depends | verified |
| Switzerland | Depends | verified |
| United Kingdom | No | verified |
| United States | Depends | verified |