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May
In Argentina, the Buenos Aires municipality of Lanús is the first to use the new non-lethal weapons and place them in the hands of the Citizen Security teams. They are Bersa air rifles and pistols called "Byrna". This type of weapon uses a compressed air system to fire 68 caliber projectiles that use kinetic force to knock out the aggressor. Diego Kravetz, interim mayor of the municipality of Lanús, appreciated its application and managed to use it. "They are useful when there is no firearm in the middle, in case it can be a knife, or a person who can…