Sure, guns are great protectors of freedom, but how many frickin' lasers do you have?

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It's becoming apparent that these are great for ruining surveillance, sensors, drones, etc.

Some countries are already starting to ban them.


Realistically though, it takes a lot of them to disrupt the human element.
 
It can be very vertigo inducing in a rotorcraft. Probably more so than a fixed wing aircraft.
 
What they don't realize is the laser can be tracked exactly back to where the beam originated from.
 
after watching some videos on various types, this what i bought:
https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Blue-laser-beam-star-sky-pointer_60703591715.html

essentially, if the internet doesn't lie, in the US,
it is illegal to sell a 5W, but not illegal to buy or possess one.
of course, the Chi-Coms don't care about that.
so, yes, i have one and it really does ~4W.
after installation of laser sights on 4 of
my pistols, i am a believer...the rifles
get red dots.

and, as the Crazy Russian Hacker (who lives in Waynesville) says:
Safety is Number One priority.
wear your laser glasses.
 
chiefjason said:
I had some moron shine one in my truck. Had a nasty headache within about 10 minutes that lasted until I could get home and go to bed. I was pissed.
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Had someone do it to me early one morning on a two lane road. Unluckily for them it was nice out and I had the windows down, so they took a big sweet tea to the windshield.
 
This little one is all I have.
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So all this discussion got me looking some up. I'm not sure how much you can trust from any of these sellers.

There's the "Spyder 3" from Wicked Lasers, claiming to be "the most powerful handheld laser" at 3.5W - but you can only buy a 1W or 2W version, based on the dropdown. Alibaba has that 5@ one previously linked. CoolLaserPointers has 3 that claim to be 5ooomW (5W), and then there's this "30,000 mW (3oW)" one on EveryOneToBuy, for less than most of the others.

I'm certain that last one is bogus, but not really sure how to tell what's legit and what's not.
 
wicked lasers is legit.
usually, the Chi-Com power is bogus.
sometimes, even, they advertise legal limits,
but what is shipped is waaaay more powerful.
other times, they say 5W and you get 1.5W.
check out Styropyro on You Tube.
 
wickedlasers says they don't ship to the US (and a few other countries).
 
The aforementioned Styropyro


Shows some frickin' lazers that can be readily found on Ebay.
 
Y'all be careful with those. You know how eye protection is no joke with firearms? It's even more so with lasers. I helped set up a 75W blue laser at work as part of another system - that was scary as hell; it would slice right through a razor blade, and we set stuff on fire by accident more than once (burning RF absorber stinks like hell, btw). We bought the mounted laser diodes off ebay, and I did the power and drivers.
It's often the reflections that will get you. When I was at BNR I knew a fellow who lost an eye because he disconnected a fiber carrying a multi-watt IR comm signal, and the bounce off some IR-reflective surface blinded him.
 
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