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Dart gun
Non-lethal gun used to paralyze animals / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see Dart gun (disambiguation).
A dart gun is an air rifle that fires a dart.[1] The dart is tipped with a hypodermic needle and filled with a sedative,[2] vaccine[3] or antibiotic.[4] A dart gun containing a sedative is called a tranquillizer gun (also spelled tranquilizer gun, tranquilliser gun or tranquiliser gun), derived from the word "tranquil", which means "calm".
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