Oakley4life
Newly Enlightened
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- Oct 29, 2012
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Hey guys, new here but love collecting flashlights. Is it just me or is there not much Streamlight love on here, just wondering.
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Military directly to the armed forces. They need a NSN (Nato Stock Number) before they can sell. Surefire, Streamlight, even Maglite can supply NSN numbers for military approved flashlights.
(Many companies claim their lights are used by the military. Maybe individual soldiers buy them but unit purchasing officers can only buy using NSNs. No NSN not an official military flashlight.)
(Tactical on ebay means the flashlight has a pointy bezel that you can poke someone with. Tactical on Streamlight means you can get a gun mount.)
Great duty lights. Not so great edc lights.
......I picked up a couple of Batonlights when they came out. I really like the basic idea, but wish they did not say "Batonlight" on the side....
This was actually the reason I got into flashlights in the first place.
A couple of female friends and relatives carried kubotans, but being here in NY, kubotans can get you into trouble because they are a weapon.
The ladies concerned used to have their kubotans on their keychains, so they often dropped them on the counter when in a store etc, and it was only a matter of time before they caught a cop on a bad day and got into trouble.
A flashlight is primarily a flashlight, but could also be used as a kubotan, so it does the same thing but legally.
I don't really rate the kubotan as a weapon, but if they insisted on carrying one, then I thought that a suitably sized and shaped flashlight would be a safer option, so I did some research.
The Streamlight batonlight seemed to be an ideal solution to the problem, until I realized that it has 'Batonlight' written on the side, thus completely negating the whole reason for such a light's existence :shakehead