Anybody own one/get hit with one? They look like a riding crop on steroids. People say they inflict devastating pain, which I can sort of see, having been hit with a riding crop.
It seems pretty brutal..The whippy effect with weight behind it. The billy club was a basically a spring with a piece of leather wrapped around it. And those are illegal because cops were doing too much damage. If you wanted to make it especially brutal you could get AIDS infested needles and glue them to the whip, so a strike from it is like being innoculated by a plagued porcupine.
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With that in mind, this seems like an honorable mention:
http://www.harrysarmysurplus.net/10074-23-expandable-steel-spring-baton.html
I'd get an expandable baton if I wanted a weapon like that.
Just as effective, cooler, made of metal and equally illegal to carry in public. Except you can actually conceal the baton.