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When You Shouldn’t Use a Weaponlight

Lights can be a blessing and a curse. I have em on my defense weapons but I ain't hunting no one. I'm hunkered down aiming at a door if it opens someone's gonne be leaking vital fluids. At work it's pretty vital to have a light on your weapon risks aside.
 
WML ?

To quote @SimonRL 😉😁

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Who needs lights…😁



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I was thankfully instructed by a salesman at on of my gun stores to use 300-lumen lights on nightstand pistols. Above that in a pitch-black house can blind you....don't need much light in a dark house or room. I was ready to buy a 1000-lumen, because more is better...
 
Tacoma236 said:
I guess I saw the early danger of WMLs (Light or laser) because it does mark your position. Additionally this means in a high pressure situation you are aiming your pistol in a search. I don't know how many here have been in a stressloaded search. Many many years ago I was in a medium sized city during a search for an "Armed Suspect" (p.s. he wasn't armed and he was actually a convenient target for the woman who was mad.

During the search my partner and I were upstairs doing our search. There was a rookie and the Sgt downstairs. The rookie with his flashlight (old days the mogamba flashlights and wheel guns). Junior turns a corner and sees a man with a flashlight and a gun at the end. He yells and then there are 3 shots in quick succession.

He blew the **** out of a mirror. Now this was a trained (albeit young) officer. The issue, he was searching with his finger on the trigger. It happens so easily. That was a 357 with a 11 lb trigger. I can only imagine if "Jim Bob is searching in the dark with his WML and suddenly the kid (who didn't follow the stay in your room directive) pops up.

Having a separate light does mean I am more or less using a single handed grip (Granted its going to be almost point blank range) I can use the light to quickly sweep around without the result of being surprised by a non target......
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I don’t like the fact that a weapon mounted light means you’re sweeping everyone and everything when you use the light. Also, gives Mr thug a great aiming point. I’ll stick with a flashlight held to the weak side with my pistol in the strong side hand. At home defense range one handed is plenty accurate to get the job done. I do have a very bright light on my 1301 12 bore because that’s a 2 handed firearm. It runs on pressure switch-still not sure I’d ever use it around the homestead.
 
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