is a taser not a gun? >> you can only do so much to try to minimize the mistake between a gun and a taser. i'm sure there's a weight differential. they may be similarly sized in terms of looks like he had a five shot .38 as well as the taseer that looked to be very similar in size but that's why we train the way we do and we practice drawing our weapon and then pointing our weapon and firing our weapon so that ultimately we are intimately familiar with our gun, this is my bff if you will this is what allows me to go home at the end of the day, so when i do have to pull a weapon and discharge it it should be second nature i don't even have think about what i'm doing. just like any other occupation if i'm a chef and i use a knife and a fork, it's important that