Comments on: Random Thoughts on Weapon Lights, Flashlights, Training, and The Gun World’s Cancel Culture

By: Dan Zimmerman

Dan Zimmerman — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 16:56:06 +0000

In reply to I Haz A Question. We have our system guy on it. Thanks for the heads up.

By: I Haz A Question

I Haz A Question — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 16:06:07 +0000

I tried multiple times yesterday to post a comment on this page, but I was blocked because it always loaded as being under Dan Zimmerman’s logon. Literally. The upper right said “Welcome, Dan!” and the area at the bottom showed his name. It wouldn’t complete the post(s) because the site then said it didn’t recognize my IP, and redirected to the admin logon splash. I completely closed out my browser, opened a fresh instance, but still the same, again and again all yesterday.

Dan, you may wish to look into SNW’s back end loadup.

By: Dude

Dude — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 14:12:09 +0000

Here’s a very similar example story (2014):
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/officer-shoots-own-daughter-16-in-mistaken-intruder-identity-after-teen-sneaks-back-home-9673392.html

A police officer shot his 16-year-old daughter mistakenly believing her to be an intruder, then crashed his car on the way to the hospital, after the teenager came back home following a night out.

Sergeant Easton McDonald, who works for the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office in Virginia, was at home getting ready for work at roughly 3.30am on Tuesday when he heard the garage alarm sounding.

As he approached the interior of the garage he heard bangs and sounds coming from within, so grabbed a gun.

He opened the door and saw the dark figure of a person walking towards him and fired his weapon at her torso.

By: .40 cal Booger

.40 cal Booger — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 21:06:16 +0000

Yeah, you can give cases where a weapon light was used by a home occupant or maybe outside the home some place. There are those cases, no doubt about it so not saying a weapon light was useless there. But some of these stories told about how a weapon light was a life saver, well, some of them don’t make sense and sound like they were made up or the light was just just cause and wasn’t even needed as they try to justify the light. Its your gun, put on it what you want and you don’t need to justify it.

Like the tale I read once on a forum: The guy was at home and heard a scratching noise at the door. Not loud, but enough to hear from the room he was in. He went into the hallway and listened and heard the scratching noise again followed by a loud “THUMP THUMP” on the door. He grabbed his gun and dialed 911. But while dialing 911 the door opens, (and, according to him, in a sequence of just a second long all happening at once as he had practiced) he turned on his weapon light, dropped the phone, presented, then realized it was his wife that had just entered the house. She had an issue with her key (thus the scratching noise) and then the “THUMP THUMP” as she thumped on the door to get his attention to come open the door for her, but then the key worked and she opened the door. As she stepped into the house he said a “silent prayer” that he had a weapon light and could identify her with it “15 feet away”. But then at the end of his story he writes “She asked why I was using the weapon light when all the lights were on and everything was brightly lit. I told her it was to make sure.” — so end of story —- ok, well, they were only about 15 feet apart in a well lit room and he needs a weapon light to identify his wife?

Sometimes something doesn’t make sense in some of these tales of how a weapon light saved a life.