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3 Flashlight Recommendations to Get You Started

Riley’s Flashlight Starters

These 3 are great affordable starters

Here is a short vid on my $.02 worth of flashlight “wisdom”.

A modern compact flashlight with a LED bulb is powerful, very durable, a potentially effective “weapon of opportunity” if needed, yet is often neglected in an Every Day Carry inventory. These 3 affordable flashlights will cover most of your portable lighting needs from general utility to portable floodlight.

These are not the final say at all on flashlights. This topic is always good for a vigorous conversation. However, these three will cover a wide variety of needs from general use to wide illumination, and tactical/self defense needs.  Even if you bought all three at once, you would not break the bank.

Streamlight ProTac 1AAA

This little guy is so convenient to carry it eliminates all of your excuses to carry an actual flashlight.  True, it’s not quite up to the eye blinking chores of the “tactical” or defensive lights, but it puts out a very decent amount of light and will certainly be useful when you are trying to find your way out of a darkened office building when the normal lights go out.

SureFire G2X Pro or G2X LE

Now we’re into some eye flinching power.  Yet, both of these are affordable, compact, and quite heavy duty.  It you could only pick one light to take with you, one of these would be fantastic.

Streamlight HL4 &
Streamlight 18650 recharging kit

This is quite the bargain considering you almost can set things on fire with it.  Just kidding, but it is really bright at 2,200 lumens of diffused light coming out of a moderately sized package.

It doesn’t have the same focused hotspot as some other lights, but that’s an attractive feature.  With the high output, this light is a handheld floodlight in a small size.  The optional 18650 recharging kit lets you reuse batteries for repeated usage while maintaining the option of using a fresh pack of CR123 batteries if the rechargeables are down.

There’s More

Of course, this is not the last word in flashlights.  We haven’t even started to talk about weapons mounted lights, head lamps, filtered lights, etc.  And what about all of the different sizes, types of batteries, form factor, price, etc.  Look for another post on other lighting categories.

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DFI’s Use of Force and Self Defense Laws Class

DFI UoF & Self Def Laws Class
DFI Use of Force & Self Defense Laws Class

Defensive Firearms Instruction conducted a Use of Force and Self Defense Laws Class at Angeles Shooting Ranges.  This class was an introduction into the world of criminal law and law enforcement procedures that is not often taught.  However, in this increasingly litigious world where even the most righteous acts of self-preservation are microscopically criticized with vicious social bias, it is imperative that a personal defense plan include more training than came in the gun box.  When contemplating the legal aftermath and potential consequences of a deadly-force incident, the knowledge on how to become “hard to convict” is most valuable.  Jeff Cooper referred to this as the Second Battle.

The class started off with a video clip of a couple out for a walk in a semi-remote park area.  When they are suddenly targeted in a “knock-out” style attack the realities of violence immediately grabbed the DFI students’ attention.  Even though the video clip was a planned and supervised stress inoculation training exercise, it graphically demonstrated how fast and how violent people can be to each other.  The audience was then challenged, with their present level of legal knowledge on the topic, to justify the actions of the defender in this “pre-quiz”.  Some tactical answers were proffered, but this class was more about the legalities of a defender’s actions, not whether or not the tactics were “good”.  This set the tone for the remainder of the day where vigorous student-instructor interaction was a constant theme.  Learn the laws of use of force.  Be able to legally justify your use of force.  Stay out of jail.

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Learn the Law, Stay Out of Jail

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Be hard to convict!!  Just doing the “right thing” may seem simple TO YOU at the time you are being attacked, but the reality of an uncaring and politically motivated prosecutor bearing down on you from the comfort of an office, complicates your world immensely.

You may have noticed during recent publicized events that the defender in a use-of-force incident can come under withering scrutiny and criticism.  The attacker…not so much.  No, it’s not fair, but these are the cards we are dealt with and this is the table at which we are playing.  What to do?  LEARN TO BE A BETTER PLAYER.

DFI regularly conducts a seminar on the California specific Laws of Self-Defense at Angeles Shooting Ranges.  You will be given an in-depth view into the criminal justice system of California, the applicable statutes, case law, and jury instructions by which YOU WILL be held to account if you use force to defend yourself, your family, or an innocent third party.

Current events, and social “attitudes” will also be discussed.  Even if you are tactically correct in your resolution of a deadly attack, if you make one misstep, one mis-spoken word or action, in any one of the parts of the ensuing criminal investigation, your actions may be found to be “legally incorrect” and you may face criminal, financial, and social ruin.

DO NOT rely on the lifetime of misinformation from television, movies, and sensationalistic news reports to which you have been exposed to justify your actions.  Learn to make yourself as legally invulnerable as possible within the confines of the laws of self-defense.

You will learn the elements of an impending crime and the elements of legal self-defense that must be present for the law to agree that you have used legal force to defend yourself.  This is mission critical knowledge you must have to protect yourself from the second battle…the courtroom battle.

Fees are $125.  Sign up at Use of Force & Self-Defense Laws on DFISOCAL.COM

LEGAL DISCLAIMER:  Riley Schrader is not an attorney and does not practice or offer legal advice.  There is no privileged or confidential relationship generated in this seminar.  This seminar is an educational event that will provide general information on the criminal legal system specifically related to the legal use of force.  You will learn when your specific legal circumstances will require consultation with an attorney licensed to practice in your legal jurisdiction.