The Bravohood

Methos wrote:Still happy with the flashlight I bought. I'm going to get some more of the one from your video Bravo so I don't have to remember to carry the same one around with me everywhere.

thats what I just did

I bought 4 from Amazon, a few extras for me and a few gifts

Interesting... This would be helpful where I live, unfortunately Australia is the kind of country where you get arrested and treated like a criminal if you carry weapons around to defend yourself. This would be perfect and fairly inexpensive as well.

monteray are you allowed tac pens where you are? The flashlights and tac pen would be a good combo too

monteray wrote:Interesting... This would be helpful where I live, unfortunately Australia is the kind of country where you get arrested and treated like a criminal if you carry weapons around to defend yourself. This would be perfect and fairly inexpensive as well.

The flashlight should be fine assuming you don't hit someone with it (assault with a weapon).

I'd be wary of the tac pen for that reason too. I got a lawyers opinion about it and ku baton key chains. There is case law of people being charged with assault with a weapon. Anything that is designed or commonly used as a weapon counts ie. baseball bat.

It has to appear as something opportunistic to not get you in trouble. Ie. a chair. Or a normal pen. Or your fist. And you have to prove that there was no way you could otherwise escape and avoid the fight.
Otherwise you enter a murky area and are at the mercy of the judge/jury.

This is not a super bright flashlight or anything tactical but they sure come in handy and require no batteries.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002MF ... UTF8&psc=1

Ice wrote:monteray are you allowed tac pens where you are? The flashlights and tac pen would be a good combo too

Not sure man, I just looked it up and guess it would be okay.. How do you use something like that? is it just hit them in a certain spot and they are defencless for a moment? Ive honestly never seen anything like that before.

@bond

yeah I totally see what you mean, last year there was a case of a junkie who broke into a house and threatened the owner with a taser gun, when the owner (a 60+ y/o man) grabbed a knife from his kitchen and stabbed the guy the junkie ran off and drove away in his car, didn't go to hospital and ended up dying. well the fucked up thing is that the police tried to charge the home owner with murder. There was a public outrage and they dropped the charges but thats the kind of rubbish that goes on here.

the thing is you get into dramas with the police even for just having any weapons with you, regardless of whether you are on your way to use them or they are just there for self defence.

Strike them repeatedly anywhere there is soft tissue - neck, chest, sides, legs, etc

I have used streamlight and Surefire daily for 15 years, Patrol, SWAT, Detective plain clothes, and I can say that LEDs are the way to go. I have had streamlights shit the bed, but not Surefire.
The only thing I didn't like about the Surefire was the concentrated beam with very little splash, they now offer in a diffused lens. Buy CR123 in bulk.

just picked up this bad boy

http://www.surefire.com/eb2-backup.html

500 lumen

tactical tail cap so light press is low, firm press is HIGH

and it can blind people during the day


not crazy about the clip and a TOUCH bigger than I want- but it is fucking outstanding!