You are in bad happenstance, living in a country that does not have the dealerships that you need to purchase some of the flashlight that you want. Have you tried asking CPF members to buy and send you lights of your choosing? Is there anything proactive that you can do to get what you want short of moving to another country. I feel for you and I know what it can be like to not get something that you want based on policies, etc, and in my case government restrictions. I may want to have an automatic pocket knife with a blade length over two inches, but I can not carry one in CA. In some other states yes, but not in the state that I life in. Sort of different in my case cause I can not and will not cause an automatice knife to be imported to me, but in your case you must be able to figure a way to get a flashlight of your choosing. :devil:
Bill
Bill, thanks for your kind words. You´re the first one.
The problem, in my opinion, is that I can´t see a LOGICAL reason for the prohibition. I´ve always bought Fenix, Lumapowers, Dereelights from american dealers (guys that I trust, with awesome customer service), but I can´t buy Surefires and Icon lights, and there is no logical reason for that. I found one guy here in Brazil that sells Surefire lights, but he´s NOT an official dealer, and his prices are out of scale, charging us with more than 100% from the real prices (a E1B Backup is 350 dollars!).
I swear... If they give me a
logical reason for the restriction, and
point me a local trustable dealer, I would stop rambling...
I don´t know if there are CPF members that can receive SF lights and ship them to me. I know there is a lot of trustable guys around here, but I just don´t know which one I should ask that, if I should ask that...
Other funny thing is that I can buy an automatic blade from US (I have Kershaws, Microtechs, Spydercos, SOGs), but I can´t buy a flashlight. I am a federal agent, and there are ways that I can even buy a pistol from US dealers (Glock, Beretta, H&K), but not a SUREFIRE, INOVA or ICON light!
And that´s not a government resctriction (like it is in your case - Arnie Schwarznegger?), but it´s a company restriction. American and brazilian governments doesn´t give a damn if I buy a flashlight or not, but Surefire (and Icon) and Inova does, and I just don´t know why (the logical reason...).
Do you understand that ? Neither do I...
SORRY FOR THE OFF TOPIC GUYS... :thumbsup:
