Abstract: A battery operated, personal, non-lethal defensive weapon capable of projecting a high intensity beam of light and, a fraction of a second thereafter, a highly concentrated spray of fluid capable of temporarily disabling an attacker features a unique structure for installing a battery and placing it in a circuit for energizing the lamp which produces the high intensity beam of light and also includes simple and effective apparatus for closing the circuit and immediately thereafter producing the spray facilitating its rapid fire use. The arrangement of the circuit closing contacts enables a rapid fire use of the weapon. In installing the battery according to a preferred embodiment, a thin board or plate of insulating material is provided to one face of which are secured strips of conductive material having free ends bent about edges of the board to project to and from the opposite face of the board.