(NewsNation) — An entrepreneur from Boston is hoping to change self-defense and give people less-lethal options to protect themselves. That’s why Bryan Ganz created the Byrna Launcher ...

Byrna Technologies, Inc. is a less-lethal self-defense technology company, which engages in the business of developing, manufacturing, and selling innovative less-lethal personal security solutions.

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It feels like a gun. It simply doesn’t kill people like a gun,” said Bryan Ganz, CEO of Byrna. For Ganz, an entrepreneur and business from Boston, self-defense doesn’t have to mean lethal force.