Originally Posted by
oldtexan
Tokarev, there's a chapter in Marshall & Sanow's 1996 book, Street Stoppers, that describes the development and production of Hydra-Shok, Starfire, and Quik-Shok. It's written by Tom Burczynski, who invented them. And maybe I was wrong about when Federal acquired the rights to Hydra-shok; Burczynski says it was 1987, not 1988 as I had said in my previous post. He says he invented Hydra-Shok in the "mid 70s", and Starfire in the "1970s", but didn't do any development work on the latter until the 1980s. He says they share a design concept, but it's not clear from my reading which one was originally invented first.
Thanks for the history lesson.
I have a copy of Street Stoppers somewhere.
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