Flashlight - GUN

No, not a flashlight for your gun... a couple of flashlights that ARE guns!

http://www.autoweapons.com/photos06/apr/csgflash.html

http://www.autoweapons.com/photosv/dcellgun.html

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http://www.autoweapons.com/products/othergoodstuff.html

I guess these would help someone who is attacking you see the light....

Kind of cool. But it concerns me that now a police officer could (should) consider our flashlights as potential guns. I don't see it as being a huge problem, but... :shrug:

Well, you do have to be approved by the ATF to own one....

cchurchi said:

Well, you do have to be approved by the ATF to own one....

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Well that leaves me out. I'm only an expert in the A and T. Still an amatuer in the Firearms dept.

cchurchi said:

Well, you do have to be approved by the ATF to own one....

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I love the Atlanta Falcons! I'm sure they'd approve me right away, once they find out what a huge fan I am!


(yuk, yuk)


I believe (I know) these lights, or something similar, have been linked to and discuss previously, although, I kind of thought I remembered them being modified Maglites. So, either, there's another similar product out there made of a modded Mag, or my memory is just slight skewed.

I think we should steal the design and make a 52mm version in a C cell maglight....Talk about a ROP!

Seriously, the "light" is pretty cool. I was looking at buying a Mont Blanc pen version once... but decided not to go through the hastle.

Nice..........as long as they don't get into the wrong hands.

I made one very similar. But out of a D size mag.

Uh oh. Looks like flashlights and pens will end up on the TSA's ban list...

Those flashlights guns were a limited production thing years ago. Last I heard the company no longer makes them or even supports them. They're an AOW, so it's ATF and tax stamp time.

Dr. K, what's the design of that like? Seems like a Mag body's an odd thing to use as a host if you're going to the expense of a Form 1. Or are you an SOT?

Dr.K said:

I made one very similar. But out of a D size mag.

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did you get a sign-off from your sheriff for form 4?

All legal in my neck of the woods.

I just wanted to see how cheap I could make a durable, viable, suppressor for my 10/22.

If you don't count the 200 buckarooskies for the form 1 stamp, then it cost me about $250 gun included.

sweet. looks very clean.

Does it use wipers or hard baffles?

Just ported barrel with choreboy copper scrubbers stuffed around them.

I'd hate to wake up in the middle of the night and reach for this flashlight, accidentally hit the wrong button and end up firing the weapon into myself.

Jayman said:

I'd hate to wake up in the middle of the night and reach for this flashlight, accidentally hit the wrong button and end up firing the weapon into myself.

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In America we practice safe firearm handling. You don't have to be a cop or a soldier to know how it works.

in order to do what you fear would happen you would have to:

-load the firearm with a round in the chamber.

-have the safety off.

-have a loaded firearm in a place where you can accidentally reach thinking it's a flashlight.

-have the said firearm pointed at yourself while doing do.

-mistaken a trigger of a firearms for a button of a light.

-pull the trigger and aim it at your person.


that doesn't sound very safe to me....

I was referring to the fact that the barrel of the weapon is at the end of the flashlight, so that when you aim the flashlight you're actually pointing the gun at yourself. I jokingly insinuated that an AD(accidental discharge) could inadvertently occur if the wrong button was activated.

Would the recoil destroy the lamp?

I assure you all that this is a rifle with a silencer, there is absolutely no way to confuse it with a flashlight.

Unless Murphy and his whole batallion showed up I think anyone would be OK.

Very safe if handled correctly.

Besides, it's locked up most of the time anyway.