Less Than Lethal Weapons

[Timerover51]

In Murray Leinster's Med series, the protagonist, a member of the Med Service found himself needing to fight a bunch of bad guys.

Being a doc he didn't want to kill them, so he mixed up a batch of quick-acting "knockout gas" and loaded it into a battery-powered spray paint gun (the gun sprayed in a very fine mist, and with the nozzle set at narrow it had a range of ~10' and a coverage of ~2' diameter area at that distance).

That one is the "Mutant Weapon", Astounding 1957. Good story by the way.

The problem with non-lethal weapons is that they can come back and kill you later.

 

[BlackBat242]

In Murray Leinster's Med series, the protagonist, a member of the Med Service found himself needing to fight a bunch of bad guys.

Being a doc he didn't want to kill them, so he mixed up a batch of quick-acting "knockout gas" and loaded it into a battery-powered spray paint gun (the gun sprayed in a very fine mist, and with the nozzle set at narrow it had a range of ~10' and a coverage of ~2' diameter area at that distance).

That one is the "Mutant Weapon", Astounding 1957. Good story by the way.

The problem with non-lethal weapons is that they can come back and kill you later.

All of the stories in the series are in this volume: Med Ship

 

[Timerover51]

All of the stories in the series are in this volume: Med Ship

I have it in both hard cover and on computer. I can remember reading them for the first time in Analog, way back when everything was hard copy.