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From: boardman%cancer.unm.edu@ariel.unm.edu
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Subject: Re: laser sights
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Date: 4 Jun 91 20:04:26 GMT
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	I feel that I should point out something regarding the subject of
  Laser sights on home-defense guns which I don't believe has been mentioned
  before in this thread.  When I was talking to an employee at a local police/
  military/gun store, he strongly recommended against laser sights for the
  following reason: if you're in your home at night and it's dark, and you hear
  a noise and take your laser-sighted gun to investigate, and you detect an
  intruder and turn on your laser, what do you see???  Answer: a 1/2" red
  dot of light on something!  How can you possibly identify a target as friend
  or foe under these circumstances?  A good lawyer could have a field day in
  court if you were to actually shoot someone with no better identification
  than this!  Additionally, the red laser makes a fine target for the intruder
  to shoot at if he is also armed.  I was told our local SWAT personnel do not
  use lasers at all.  Their entry weapons are all mounted with extremely high-
  intensity flashlights equipped with pressure switches like a laser.  This
  allows them to not only identify their targets properly, but also blinds
  the target momentarily (he shined one of these flashlights in my face in
  the store in normal daylight, and even with light-adjusted vision, it did
  blind me momentarily - they _ARE_ bright!!!).  These arguments seem to make
  a lot of sense, and should be considered by anyone thinking about a Laser
  sight.

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