So two of my handguns have rails and mounting spaces for any number of goofy tacticool stuff. But none of it has appealed to me at all. I shoot just fine without an optic. Lasers seem like a gimmick that don’t work either because the dot isn’t visible enough or because the dot never stays zeroed. And a flashlight doesn’t seem necessary when I can just also hold a flashlight. Is there anything I’m not considering that might be more useful?
An underbarrel shotgun would be awesome but I doubt they’re made small enough for a pistol lol
If it helps at all answer, my guns are largely for shooting at ranges, and also for the hopefully never self-defense situation.
I’ve always been of the same opinion basically. The only one that makes any sense at all is a flashlight, but I’d far rather have my flashlight separate. 99% of situations in which I want to point a flashlight at something, I don’t also want to point a gun at it. And 99% of situations where I want to point a gun at something, I don’t need to point a flashlight at it also.
You really have to work hard to invent a situation where a pistol mounted flashlight is actually useful, and in those situations it’s never the best option.
Not a gun person for the most part. They do seem fun, I would just need a place that isnt my house to keep it and im left handed so i gotta know ahead of time if a rifle will burn my face cause I dont know. Anyway a strong general gun rule that I have heard of and agree with is never point a gun at something you don’t want to kill. A gun mounted flashlight is for doing exactly that. Using a gun as a flashlight seems really dangerous
It’s not really meant to be used as a flashlight as much as a way to distract/blind whatever is coming at you. A separate flashlight is better for actual flashlight related activities
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