A Weapon-Mounted Light on Your Everyday Carry Gun? Read This First

Among the many internet gun debates that tend to clog up cyberspace is whether or not weapon-mounted lights should be on carry pistols. Discussions of weapon lights often devolve into a debate of weapon lights versus handheld lights. That doesn’t make sense to me. The addition of a weapon-mounted light (WML) doesn’t require the user … Read more

SIG SAUER Introduces the FOXTROT1X Rail Mounted Light

If there’s one piece of kit I’m embarrassingly short on, it might just be pistol mounted weapon lights. Firing 450 lumens in a compact package at an MSRP of $129.99, SIG’s new FOXTROT1X Rail Mounted Light may well find itself in my house soon helping to fill that gap. SIG SAUER’s press release is pasted … Read more

Weapon-Mounted Lights Vs. Handheld Lights for Home Defense

If you’re protecting your home and family from threats that are in your house — and it’s dark — how will you illuminate the intruders to ensure you can make the right shot on the right target? You gotta have a light for that bump in the night, right? In the video below, Clint Smith … Read more

Weapon-Mounted Light: Everyday Carry Pocket Dump of the Day

Today’s pocket dump comes from Florida and features a Wilson Combat Protector Professional with a Surefire X300. WMLs – weapon mounted lights – are good idea on your carry gun if you know how to use them. Simply turning them on and shining the light all over the place is not a good way to … Read more

Weapon Mounted Light: Everyday Carry Pocket Dump of the Day

  This pocket dump includes a GLOCK 43 and a small folding knife but what I’m interested in is the WML. It’s a Streamlight TLR-6 which has both a light and a red laser. The light is only 100 lumens, so a bit less than ideal, but it’s a nice little trigger guard-mounted WML (and … Read more

“What Was That?!” Are You Prepared to Confront a Bump in the Night?

Gun owners and concealed carry permit holders know that being prepared is a key factor in successfully defending your own and our loved ones’ lives. A biometric safe next to your bed, frequent trips to the gun range, taking a self-defense firearms course…. But are you prepared to successfully confront a home intruder in the dead … Read more