UK police fire stun guns 2,500 times as deployment of weapon escalates 11 January 2020 Figures released by the Home Office show that the use of stun guns is on the increase in the UK. For the year to March 2019, stun guns were deployed in 23,000 incidents and fired on 2,500 occasions. https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/11/tase-j11.html