25 A projectile electric shock weapon A projectile electric shock weapon and cartridge. An electric shock projectile – barbed dart A projectile electric shock weapon that their use in drive-stun mode should be prohibited.37 The Committee previously recommended that “electrical discharge weapons are used exclusively in extreme and limited situations – where there is a real and immediate threat to life or risk of serious injury – as a substitute for lethal weapons and by trained law enforcement personnel only”.38 In Concluding Observations issued to the United States of America in 2014, the UN Committee against Torture recommended that “(t)he State party should revise the regulations governing the use of such weapons [electrical discharge weapons], with a view to establishing a high threshold for their use, and expressly prohibit their use on children and pregnant women.”39 The UN Committee on the Rights of the 37 38 39 UN Committee against Torture, “Concluding Observations on the Sixth Periodic Report of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland”, UN doc. CAT/C/GBR/CO/6, 7 June 2019, para. 29, <https://www.cypcs.org.uk/ufiles/UNCAT-conclusions.pdf>. Ibid., para. 26. UN Committee against Torture, “Concluding Observations on the Combined Third to Fifth Periodic Reports of the United States of America, UN doc. CAT/C/USA/CO/3-5, 19 December 2014, para. 27, <https://digitallibrar y.un.org/record/790513/>.