{"id":5347,"date":"2019-01-15T09:00:06","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T14:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=5347"},"modified":"2019-01-05T17:26:56","modified_gmt":"2019-01-05T22:26:56","slug":"little-new-under-the-sun-or-in-the-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/little-new-under-the-sun-or-in-the-dark\/","title":{"rendered":"LITTLE NEW UNDER THE SUN (OR IN THE DARK)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In case you\nhaven\u2019t been looking, more American police seem to carry flashlight-mounted\npistols in their duty holster in uniform, than not. WMLs (weapon-mounted\nlights) have also become hugely popular for home defense. There are even\nitty-bitty ones for small concealed carry handguns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I remember seeing an early 20th<\/sup> Century version, a Colt Police Positive .38 revolver with a crude flashlight built on.\u00a0 That, it turns out, was not the genesis of the concept<\/a>: .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That was a\nwonderful read. Also a bit chilling.  Two\nhammers, two triggers.  Pull one trigger\nto fire the lethal weapon.  Pull the\nother trigger (in the dark, by definition) to light the attached lamp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What could\ngo wrong?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The same\nreminder to readers that I give to students: consider the weapon-mounted light\nto be for emergencies, and use a separate hand-held light for searches unless\nthere is a very high-probability \u201cshoot\u201d target somewhere in front of you.  The reason: in any sort of uncertain\nsituation, you\u2019re pointing a loaded gun at everything you look at.  It\u2019s analogous to the slob hunter we all\ndespise who is too cheap or lazy to use binoculars, so he scans for game\nthrough the telescopic sight of his loaded rifle, the muzzle of which crosses\neverything else in the woods including maybe us and our little ones.  Pointing loaded guns at people who don\u2019t\ndeserve it is known in the criminal justice system as \u201cfelony aggravated\nassault.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That doesn\u2019t\nmean \u201cDon\u2019t use WML firearms or scoped rifles.\u201d Quite the contrary. We\u2019ll never\nknow how many lives were saved when a hunter at dusk saw through the magnified\nsighting tube what he couldn\u2019t see with the naked eye: what looked like a deer\nwas really a person.  Nor how many lives\nwere saved when a cop (or law-abiding armed citizen) in danger in the dark saw\na the last moment in the WML\u2019s bright beam that the suspect was holding a cell\nphone, not a weapon, and realized that pulling the trigger was not necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This time of year I like to carry a light-mounted pistol. Winter tilts our northern hemisphere away from the sun and gives us more dark time, and cooler weather allows us to wear clothing that discreetly conceals bulkier handguns.\u00a0 My carry pistol du jour <\/em>is a Gen5 Glock 19 9mm, mounting a SureFire light and loaded with sixteen rounds of Winchester Ranger-T +P ammo, which sends a 127 grain jacketed hollow point bullet out of the muzzle at 1250 feet per second, about the ballistics of the most street-proven .357 Magnum load from the two-inch barrel of a concealed carry revolver.\u00a0 The Bravo Concealment<\/a> outside the belt scabbard it presently rests in conceals it very well with my January wardrobe, and if I need deeper concealment, I have an inside the waistband hybrid rig to fit it from Concealment Solutions<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve come\na long way, baby!\u201d  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In case you haven\u2019t been looking, more American police seem to carry flashlight-mounted pistols in their duty holster in uniform, than not. WMLs (weapon-mounted lights) have also become hugely popular for home defense. There are even itty-bitty ones for small concealed carry handguns. I remember seeing an early 20th Century version, a Colt Police Positive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5347","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5347"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5354,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5347\/revisions\/5354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}