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pnichols
Jul 01, 2013Explorer II
The Texan wrote:
Bear spray and pepper spray are basically one and the same. Bear spray is a little more potent but the basic ingredients are the same.
This does not jive with what I was told in a gun store the other day.
I did notice when in the store that bear spray was in a completely different, larger, and more expensive container than that of the pepper spray ... lending credence to his explanation of them being maybe enough different so as to make use of bear spray on a human a felony (at least in CA).
Here's an interesting discussion on use of both of them and their similarities and differences:
http://thefiringline.com/forums/archive/index.php?t-259877.html
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