The bean bag round penetrated two inches into Ellis’s leg. Two weeks later, Ellis’s leg still hurts, and he’s having trouble sleeping. “I had a big personal awakening,” he said.

The bean bag gun has the capability of striking a target up to 75 feet away. Shipley said while the bean bag bullet likely won’t kill, it will sting. “Oh no!

The sound of the gun is jarring, but these bright orange weapons are not firing bullets. Instead, they are filled with bean bags. “What this bean bag round does is gives us another opportunity ...

News 8 recovered one of the bean bag rounds at the scene of the La Mesa protests. It consists of a small, cloth sack filled with lead shotgun pellets about 2mm in diameter.

Police in Fairfax County, Virginia, are repurposing a long-carried weapon in patrol cars — the shotgun. But now, those weapons are being converted to only contain “less-lethal” bean bag rounds.