Originally Posted by
Chuck Haggard
I challenge you to find me a CCW scenario, ever, that required a WML to fix the problem, or even would have been the better option for the scenario than how it was handled.
Even as a night shift cop for something like 25 years my actual need for a pistol mounted light was extremely low. I'm not anti light, I was carrying lights on pistols back in the days when your only choice was a Sure Fire legacy light that looked like a 6P screwed into a big ass mounting on your gun, and we were still hose clamping MagLights onto long guns. I've taught LE instructor level trainings for decades on this subject.
I like gear, I like lights, but the idea that pistol mounted lights are a necessity is demonstrably false.
The idea that training with this gear is as simple as "I'd just" or a few live fire range trips is a trap that a LOT of people fall in to. I'd wager that lights on pistols combined with smooth brain LCD "training" is THE new leading cause on NDs in the police world in real life incidents.