Originally developed to ward off pirates at sea, one powerful military-grade device has become a favorite tool for U.S. law enforcement. But with no supervision to speak of, these off-label uses are ...

December 17, 2007: While U.S. efforts to deploy it's microwave Active Denial System (which transmits a searchlight sized bean of energy when makes people downrange feel like their skin is on fire) ...

SAN DIEGO, September 29, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Genasys Inc. (NASDAQ: GNSS), the global leader in Protective Communications, today announced a $9.0 million Long Range Acoustic Device® (LRAD®) order ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Mayor Ted Wheeler directed police to not use a device that emits a loud sonic tone for crowd control ahead of another night of protests in Portland. The device is called LRAD, ...

The manufacturer of the LRAD (Long Range Acoustic Device) has previously gone to great lengths explaining how the device is not a weapon — in the lethal sense anyway. As a non-lethal device, the LRAD ...

WILMINGTON -- A long-range communication device sought by the Wilmington Police Department and a specialized signage provision for the city’s largest developments both gained the city council’s ...

Nancho Lopez, vice president of product development at LRAD Corp. in San Diego, demonstrates the 100X “portable hailing device,” also called a sound cannon. LOS ...

(TNS) - The Greensboro, N.C., Police Department soon will be using a piece of equipment that has a controversial reputation. A Long Range Acoustic Device, or LRAD, was purchased by the department in ...

The company deny it is a weapon and say it can be used to "peacefully resolve uncertain situations" The Ministry of Defence has confirmed a sonic device will be deployed in London during the Olympics.

As hundreds of people marched through the streets of downtown Orlando on June 5, a booming speaker attached to the back of a nearby pickup truck announced a warning. “Orlando curfew will go into ...

New York City police officers have lately taken to blasting protesters with 21st-century sound cannons, and as far as anyone can tell, the department doesn’t have any policies governing when and how ...

UMATILLA, Ore. – The US Army Corps of Engineers, Walla Walla District will resume use of bird deterring lasers, and will be testing a Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) to prevent birds from preying on ...