It's no surprise, that bad guys commit more violent crimes under the cover of darkness. Flashlights and laser aiming modules are becoming more and more common in the civilian market.
Rule # 1 - The weapon mounted flashlight does not replace the handheld flashlight. Always keep a handheld flashlight. Surefire and Streamlight are king.
Rule # 2 - Unless your running night vision, lasers, suck during the daylight and well lit environments. Commercial lasers are not strong enough to really be useful. Full power LE/MIL lasers are available in fbe private market, just be prepaired to pay for them when you come across them. Even so, iron sights. are forever. Zero your laser, know the axis your zeroed on and how distance effects your point of impact. Understand that once you change ammo, it will impact your zero.
Now lasers can certainly be advantageous in dark environments, and do have an intimidation factor. After all, nothing says stop fucking with me, more than a steady laser beam on someone's chest.
Rule # 3 - You can still miss with a laser. It doesn't magically do the work for you. You still need to master trigger control and good body mechanics. Lasers make great training tools to show you what your doing with the gun as it recoils and how your grip, trigger control and stance can all impact recoil management and shot placement.
Come take a low light no light class. Test out some flashlights, weapon mounted lights, red dots and glow in the dark sights, fiber optics and see what you like what you don't before you spend your hard earned money. We teach the tactics during daylight, and continue practicing into the sunset and in complete darkness. Learn how to own the night.
Green eyes black rifles night vision class, will change the way you peer into the darkness forever. The biggest mistake people make is believing that they can not be seen and feeling invincible, just because you can see just about everything doesn't mean we can't see your back lit silhouette...
The worse thing you can do, is buy stuff and think stuff means skills... in fact, often times, less is more.
