Does a flashlight really belong on your defensive handgun?
23 Responses to “Does a flashlight really belong on your defensive handgun?”
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August 24th, 2012 at 10:53 am
Handgun? No.
Rifle and/or shotgun? Yes please.
August 24th, 2012 at 11:10 am
I prefer the bayonet over the flashlight. It speeds up my melee attack.
On a cc gun, I just don’t think there is room. A laser would make more sense…but I don’t have one of those on my EDC gun either.
If I were OCing, I would be tempted to use a light.
August 24th, 2012 at 11:18 am
Yes, but it should not be your only or primary flashlight.
I use my regular pocket flashlight as often as I use my pocket knife. Its a great day-to-day tool that simply happens to have tactical/SHTF applications.
Some of my firearms have lights, but if I simply need to see in the dark I do not use the entire gun as a flashlight pointer. I use the light in my pocket.
August 24th, 2012 at 11:20 am
I would use the CT lightguard on a cc gun, if they would ever make it for a gun I own.
August 24th, 2012 at 11:31 am
I am with Adam. Handgun, flashlight off the gun. I have my 590 and AR with light mounted and thankfully have never had to use them.
August 24th, 2012 at 11:32 am
Nightstand .45 is lighted and I love it.
August 24th, 2012 at 11:36 am
Have one on my Glock 20 that I hike and backpack with. Very useful in the woods.
August 24th, 2012 at 11:50 am
I’m with cayton. A CT Lightguard with lasergrips would be a good combination for a carry gun without adding significant weight or a lot of bulk. There are some non-CT rail mount laser/light combo units out there too, if you can’t get CT accessories for your particular gun (like mine), and they aren’t noticeably larger or heavier than just a plain laser, so there’s no disadvantage there.
Now CT just needs to make a Lightguard with a laser.
August 24th, 2012 at 12:07 pm
Yes, because Race Gun, no, wait, I mean NINJAS!
August 24th, 2012 at 12:12 pm
i regularly conceal my G23 with an M6 light/laser “hanging off the end.”
It’s all in the holster.
August 24th, 2012 at 2:54 pm
Your butler should illuminate the burglar with an electric torch, whilst you shoot your burglar with a Howdah pistol.
“Burglar for you, Sir …”
August 24th, 2012 at 3:59 pm
The crimson trace lightguard weighs 1.2oz, doesn’t increase the length or width of the pistol, and allows you to see the profile of your sights in low light. There is no reason not to have one on your compact or larger handgun (other than they don’t make one for it yet).
If your carrying a sub-compact a laser is going to be more use.
If you think the light adds too much bulk… you have the wrong light.
August 24th, 2012 at 6:12 pm
Rule #4: Know your target, it’s foreground, and background. Yes, I have a light both on my gun as well as another on my person whenever I am carrying (uhhh… that’s always).
August 24th, 2012 at 6:13 pm
No, no, no. You can range on lights and you can return fire down them. No lights on guns. Period.
August 24th, 2012 at 6:39 pm
I just bought a Glock 19 for use as a carry gun (I am/have been carrying a Browning Hi-Power: excellent gun with serious logistical problems). Almost the first things I bought for it were CT Lasergrips and a CT Lightguard. The laser speeds up target acquisition, the light makes target recognition possible in the dark. Seems like a good combo, to me.
August 24th, 2012 at 8:42 pm
Maybe I’m old fashioned but i’m with Lou and Sheriff Jim. I haven’t been able to reconsile Rule 2 (Never point the weapon at anything you’re not willing to shoot) with a light on the pistol. You’re pointing the pistol at someone or something before you have decided it is a shootable threat.
August 24th, 2012 at 10:58 pm
Mike V: 100 lumens in a dark room is a pretty fair amount of light. Not as much as a 60-watt light bulb, but it’s easily the difference between not being able to see anything and being able to see almost everything, when bounced off the floor or ceiling.
August 25th, 2012 at 7:08 am
That thing I hide in my pants? No. The P-14 on the, um, errr,….Doe’s Maglite make a rail mount for a 4D?
August 25th, 2012 at 4:24 pm
I’ll bet 100% of the people who have shot loved ones, mistaking them for intruders, wish they had had a light mounted on their handgun.
August 25th, 2012 at 4:34 pm
I’ll bet 100% of the people who have shot family members or coworkers, mistaking them for BG’s, wish they had had a light mounted on their handgun.
August 25th, 2012 at 6:34 pm
The thing is, it is not a choice between no light at all and a weapon mounted light. There are several flashlight techniques that work well and allow a person to shoot accurately.
August 27th, 2012 at 5:06 pm
I use one on my hand gun. I have mixed feelings about it though. #1, the person would know exactly where to shoot. However, when I turn the strobe on it blinds the shit out of them.
August 28th, 2012 at 11:34 am
Exactly, David. If they can range on and deliver accurate fire faster on 100 lumens at, say, 5 Hertz than you can on a target being illuminated (and shillouetting your sights for extra contrast) by that same light, they’re fast enough and good (or lucky) enough they would have killed you without any light.