this post was submitted on 03 Nov 2025
23 points (100.0% liked)
guns
2636 readers
17 users here now
Rules (Under review):
-
- NO BUYING, SELLING OR TRADING of guns or accessories. Take that to Reddit and /r/GunAccessoriesForSale or Armslist.com
-
- Censor all personally identifiable information in posts including serial numbers on firearms.
-
- Any post or comment advocating illegal action will be removed and the poster warned. A second infraction will result in a ban.
-
- Unironically suggesting the SKS as a usable rifle in the 21st Century when there are things like the AK and AR that cost only a bit more might result in a ban, it depends on how we feel.
-
- Discussion of hunting is acceptable but please put "CW: hunting" in post titles. Debating the ethicality of hunting is also fine, but keep it civil and don't derail other people's threads.
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Wouldn't that jusr be giving someone something to shoot at? If i had a gun and wanted to kill someone else with it ans there was a bright light in my eyes id shoot at it
You might be surprised how much a flashlight blinds you. If it's dark and someone is pointing a flashlight at you, all you can see is the light. You've got no idea where the person holding it is in relation to it. Is it out to their side? Is it at the end of a gun? Is it mounted on their head? If you want to shoot them, you have no idea where center of mass is to aim. It is a pretty big deal.
But that's most useful if you're some kind of spec ops goon raiding a house full of armed people that you know are going to shoot at you. It's pretty irrelevant to most of us.
Yeah, it's irrelevant unless you want to cosplay tacticool. Maybe useful if you're like hunting coyotes close range or something, but even then a separate flashlight is probably easier.
Still, I'd say in terms of usefulness as a handgun attachment, it goes laser then flashlight, then like, hot dog holser, then everything else.
I guess.the thing is it would still make me start shooting at the light pointed in my face where I may not have been shooting otherwise, hypothetically. In general I csn agree it for sure isnt for normies. Like...I get it under the assumption that a professional soldier would sometimes be someone who's pointing a gun at someone they don't wanna kill just by the odds of holding s gun that often and be trained to compensate more. This is the ideal situation
Well, there's an interesting detail there. Are you sure you'd be more likely to make the snap judgment to shoot a disembodied flashlight than a big man in tactical gear with a shotgun? I'm pretty sure I'd be more likely to shoot the guy I can tell is pointing a shotgun at me than the person who may or may not be pointing anything more at me than a flashlight.
Depends on the circumstance i guess, if im expecting to be shot and theres a disembodied flashlight id most likely unload in a panic. A big man in tactical gear with a shotgun which is presumably pointed at me like thr flashlight would be would probably lesd me to dropping my gun and surrendering because a big man with tactical gear and a shotgun is pointing his shotgun at me. Cause not dying is generally the prerogative in a gunfight