What is up everybody? We are back down at Vortex Edge on the 100 yard line. We are

podcasting a new setting here Jim. I like it. Yeah, it works. It works. I got Jim to my left.

Further left, we've got instructor Pete. We're going to talk today about I think probably

one of Pete's favorite subjects. Weapon lights, which I feel like in general, lights in general,

our Pete's favorite lights in general are our Pete's favorite. And oftentimes I feel like he

as important as the firearm itself. So Pete, let's talk, let's talk about lights in general. Now Mark

Pete and I also talked about this side. You know, we both sit down right next to each other. So we

kind of concluded that we would stick to mostly pistol. Yeah, for the sake of kind of not being all

over the place, there's, you could take this lot of different directions. Right. Right. So Pete's got a

couple just for reference here. If you're not watching on YouTube, we got a couple of, we got a

blue gun and a Glock 19, both with different styles of weapon lights on. And of course, Pete has his

handheld, which we might get into later on here. But yeah, so Pete WMLs, sometimes they're called

weapon mounted lights dive on in lights are cruise component. Okay. If you want to have a handgun,

if you want to use it for self defense, okay. Before we shoot something, we have to identify it.

We teach a lot of home defense classes and light is extremely important. Okay. If you want to be a

responsible gun owner, it's a really good idea to have some kind of weapon light or a handheld light

with you. Weapon lights have a lot of advantages. They have a lot of disadvantages. And I know we're

talking about weapon lights, but you can't really talk about weapon lights without handheld lights. I

feel like they kind of go together. One's not really a replacement for the other. You know, if your

average Joe citizen, you know, you could probably get by without having a weapon mounted light. It's

it's a kind of a nice to have. It's not necessary in necessity. Okay. Probably the biggest thing is

in order for me to light up something, I have to point whatever is attached to this firearm at

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