If you’re in a position to be tased, you’ve typically got one (not very impressive) advantage: the police officer or rent-a-cop trying to send 20,000 volts through your body has to be pretty close to you. But your advantage is about to disappear in a hail of electric shock cartridges.

Taser International is teaming up with crazy-ass Australian electric gun company Metal Storm Ltd. to produce a bowel-liquifying stun shotgun called — seriously — MAUL. Picture, if you will, a 12-gauge shotgun that stacks stun cartridges on top of one another and uses electricity to fire them out, railgun style. Five of Taser’s XREP cartridge come flying at you from 30 yards away — “semi-automatic fire as fast as the operator can squeeze the trigger,” the company boasted on Thursday.

Yes, an electric, semi-automatic Taser shotgun. Full reload of all five cartridges takes all of two seconds. Not even a steroided-out Ben Johnson can run 30 yards that quickly.

MAUL is “ideally suited” for “law enforcement and military applications,” Taser explains — a kind of remote crowd control of pain. Or, as Taser founder Tom Smith put it, “We developed the XREP to provide an extended range for situations where a close approach was dangerous or not possible.”

This isn’t the first collabo between Taser and Metal Storm. (The company is really called Metal Storm! That’s not a defense company, it’s a Dirty Rotten Imbeciles 7?.) The ostensible “million-rounds-a-minute” gun manufacturer worked with Taser to create a ground robot that zapped you, way back in 2007.

Yet Metal Storm has endured a rocky few years, getting dumped by financial indices and losing a fair amount of public confidence. It’s been buoyed by lucrative and super-secret military contracts. Still, Taser has confidence that Metal Storm can get MAUL to market, as it’s a stun-gun variant of one of the company’s existing shotguns.

But don’t call the XREP’s charge an electric shock. (Even though it is.) Call it a “Neuro Muscular Incapacitation bio-effect,” Taser tut-tuts.

Whatever you want to call it, think twice before you interrupt a baseball game by running out onto the field. The cops may not have to tackle you to fill you with a stun charge. And your drunk self doesn’t run so well, anyway.