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Keeping Bad Guys at Bay
See how SureFire is taking away the cover of darkness from bad guys who go bump in the night.
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Blinding a Blind-Sider
I went out for a run one night and, as always, took my 6P® Defender® with an ultra high-output P61 lamp in it. I'd been running for a while, and it was starting to get late when I noticed a car was creeping behind me slowly. I got over on the grass so it could drive by, which it did, but then it stopped about 20 feet in front of me.
Just as I was passing the car, the rear passenger door flung open, and someone from inside tackled me! Luckily, I already had my SureFire in my hand, and as soon as I hit the ground I brought it up and shined it in my attacker's eyes. This caused him to shield his face, and I used this opportunity to lash out and nail him in the forehead with my 6P Defender's crenellated Strike Bezel®. He let out an agonizing yell and crawled back into the car before it sped off.
I only had a little scrape on my arm from being tackled, and feel incredibly lucky that nothing worse happened. I know I owe it all to my SureFire. Keep up the great work, guys!
Max W.
San Marcos, TX
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Muggers Don't Count on G2
It was three in the morning, and I had just come from a downtown bar in Toronto, when suddenly, out of the alleyway, appeared two large, intoxicated men. One of them pulled out a knife and said, "Your wallet or your life."
I went cautiously into my pocket, but, instead of pulling out my cash, I took out my Surefire G2 Nitrolon®. I shined it directly into the goon's face and, when he was dazed, kicked him back onto his buddy. The two fell down, and I ran away to safety, thank the Lord.
That SureFire saved my life...and my wallet!
Harry C.
Markham, Ontario
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Red & Blue Light Makes Thugs Reconsider
Walking out from an Italian restaurant in a so-so neighborhood, I saw three men, from about 25 yards away, attempting to mug a waitress, who was walking to her car. I pulled out my Kroma®, twisted the tailcap to constant-on, and frantically cycled the selector ring back and forth, creating a flashing of red and blue light. The assailants immediately stopped what they were doing and moved on.
Jordan M.
Rockford, IL
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Red-Dotted Perp Agrees: Strike Bezel Works
I am a frequent purchaser of SureFire products and am extremely impressed. I recently purchased a SureFire E2D Defender® and regularly carry it with me. One day I was at a bar until about 11:00 pm. On the way out a rather short man stopped me and said, "Give me your money or I’ll cut you!” I noticed an old fishing knife in his hand.
I reached for my wallet but instead whipped out my SureFire E2D light. I rapidly shined it in his eyes. When he closed his eyes, I struck him in the forehead with the built-in strike bezel. He screamed in pain and dropped the knife (which was smaller than it appeared). Once he dropped the knife I tackled the assailant. I restrained him and called for my bar buddies. They appeared and one went to retrieve some rope. Once he was tied up I told them what had happened.
They were amazed when I showed them my SureFire flashlight. While waiting for the police I told my friends where they could purchase one. When the police finally did show up and arrested the mugger, I saw a big red-dotted circle on the man’s forehead from where I hit him. Thanks, SureFire, for making fantastic products.
Daniel P.
Palmdale, CA
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Defender Lives Up to its Name
My wife was recently pursued by a stalker. We noticed him slowly at first, but when I awoke at about 2:30 a.m. and found him looking through a window at us sleeping, we knew it was serious. I did not have my pistol handy, but I did have my SureFire E2D Executive® Defender®. I fired it into his face from about 10 feet away as I was struggling out of bed. He jumped like I had hit him with a bat. I will never forget the look of pain and surprise on his face. He ran so fast that by the time I made it to the door he was out of our yard and gone.
The next time we saw him he had followed us 20 miles from our house to downtown Indianapolis. After we parked and were walking to dinner I saw him trying to follow us in his car. Luckily, he got stuck in the downtown traffic. I ran into the street as I pulled the E2D from its Velcro pouch and put the beam on his face. Same look! He about jumped through the roof. As I kept it on him and he tried to shield his eyes I wrote his plate number on my hand. After I was done I used my SureFire to light my hand so he could see what I had done. At that point he blasted out of the turn lane he was in, almost hitting me, and sideswiping another car.
I gave his plate number to a friend who is a prosecutor, but before they found him he was picked up for stalking another woman. In his trunk was a "Rape/Murder kit” of duct tape, a shovel, and other items the police said were for his women.
I am an engineer and use my SureFire everyday, but on those occasions it really saved the day and my wife. It is impossible for some one who has not actually seen or used a SureFire flashlight to believe what they can do!
Doug W.
Ormond Beach, FL
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Don’t Pay for Parking? Better Pay for a SureFire
I work in Washington D.C. and have to get to work by 5 a.m. just to miss traffic. One of the benefits of getting in early is free parking on the street outside my office, saving me $150 a month. The downfall is it’s very dark in the morning and I have to walk up an alley.
Last week, I had just gotten out of my car with my SureFire G2Z CombatLight in hand, and was about to open my trunk to pull out my computer bag. I must have been very tired because I never heard anyone walk up behind me. The next thing I knew someone was asking me for my wallet. I hit him with 90 lumens of light and checked his hands for a weapon. He had none so I pushed him as hard as I could. He toppled over onto his backside, then scrambled up and ran down the street. I'm glad I had the light to disorientate him while I could asses the situation.
Richard M.
Woodstock, VA
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Four Hundred Dollars Well Spent
I am an EMT in New York and work. I was dispatched for a psych evaluation for a patient who had been off his meds for several days and was beginning to become violent.
We arrived at the building in the Bronx; two emergency services units were already there. The ESU had tried to subdue the patient but failed, and pulled out when the 6 foot 240-pound man grabbed a knife from
under a couch. I had my SureFire M6® Guardian®, with its 500-lumen bulb in place, with me at the time. Going in with ESU in front of me, I pointed
the light in the patient's eyes, and he immediately covered his eyes, which gave the police a chance to spray mace in his face and take him down, causing him to drop the knife.
After the police arrested the subject and placed him in a patrol car, they thanked me for using my light, then took turns blinding themselves with my flashlight. They admitted that it's worth the $400 dollars it
costs, and that it's better than the Streamlight they are issued. My M6 not only saved a person from being shot and potentially killed, it also justified my expenditure of $400 on such an awesome light.
Thank you, SureFire.
Cory N.
Yonkers, NY
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M4 Stops an Attack
My job takes me to some of the worst places in the city. One essential component to my job is a good flashlight that's why I always carry a SureFire M4 Devastator and a 6P LED. I work the night shift as an armed security professional in the city of Detroit, clearing commercial buildings when there alarm system has been breeched. I enter warehouses, factories, schools, stores-you name it. We're required to work alone until back up is needed. One night I had a run in on the lower southwest side of Detroit. Someone had driven a car through the front window of a furniture store and entered the premises to loot the contents. After I had cleared the building I was waiting for the key holder to show up. I noticed something out of the corner of my eye in the alley. Someone was riding a bike down the alley and then stopped about 50 yards from me, got off his bike, and started to have heated words with an older man sitting on the steps of an apartment building. The punk then kicked the older man in the face and continued to as he was falling. At that moment I yelled at him to back off with no avail. So quickly I reached into my patrol bag and grabbed my M4 and approached him. The M4 lit up the entire ally and that alone was enough to make him immediately stop. He got on his bike and left. A neighbor offered to take the older man to the hospital. Two weeks had gone by and I had the same run again. As I was coming out of the building with my partner the older man was outside waiting to thank me for helping him. He told me that things would have certainly been a lot worse if I didn't help him. He was thankful to be alive. My M4 Devastator may have saved someone's life.
Michael L.
Pleasant Ridge, MI
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Patriotic Protector
I was driving my bus at about 1:30 am on typical Saturday night in Blacksburg, VA (Virginia Tech). There were 80 drunken college students packed in my bus, wanting to go back to the dorms from a
night of partying. After starting back to campus, I heard someone scream, "I said NO!" so I looked in my rearview mirror to see where the scream came from.
I located a man who had his girlfriend pressed up against the window and was screaming in her face. I stopped the bus, killed the lights, and pulled out
my 6P™ Patriotic Spirit flashlight. I made my way back there, shined my light in the guy's face, temporarily disorienting him, and then
threw him off of my bus. As people got off back at campus, several of them thanked me for what I'd done, and two individuals asked me what kind of flashlight I had. I told them it was a SureFire-and that
I never drive without it.
Thanks to SureFire, I helped keep someone safe. I know I wouldn't have been able to handle that guy without first being able to disorient him with the blinding light of my SureFire 6P.
Bob L.
Blacksburg, VA
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Flashlight Foils Fuel Heist
Every night I head out to deliver tens of thousands of gallons of gasoline to 24-hour gas stations, and I always take along my SureFire G3™ as my primary helper. One night I was making a 9,000-gallon delivery at 2 a.m. on a moonless night. The station had no lights in back of the building where the tanks were located. As I was preparing to open the valves on my tanker to pour gas through a four-inch hose at a rate of 350 gallons per minute, a vehicle pulled around the back of the station where I was working and turned off its headlights. Two men got out of the car and demanded that I give them my wallet and leave the tractor-trailer for them to take. I immediately pointed and flashed my 105-lumen G3 directly into their faces to see who they were. The driver got back in the car, and the passenger started to approach me. I put the light in his face again and he walked right in to the fender of the car.
He jumped into the car and the driver backed in to a concrete-filled pole while trying to get away. I was truly surprised my SureFire flashlight was so effective at deterring the robbers. I made the purchase so I would have one small light to illuminate my work area, but the salesman had told me it was also a personal-protection device; I had no idea how well it would work for that. It protected my cargo, the general public, and my life.
Thank you for such a fine product-it was well worth the $59 price tag. By the way, the police later found the car and the failed robbers after spotting a car with a bumper with a large spot of yellow paint on it-left by the pole they hit trying to get away so quickly.
Bob P.
Whitehouse, TX
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An American Flashlight in London
London's streets can be a dangerous place these days, especially at night. That's why I always have my SureFire E2D Defender® clamped securely in my right hand when I go out walking after dark. One night I had just rounded a corner, when I heard a woman shout in terror from twenty yards away on the other side of the street. Then a teenage goon sprinted in my direction, the lady's shoulder bag clutched in his hand. I immediately "lit up"' the guy with my E2D's blinding spotlight, causing him to curse and raise his hands to shield his eyes. "'Drop the bag," I barked. "Okay, man, okay," was his response as he dropped the bag and fled down a nearby side street. I returned the bag to the lady and was thanked profusely. "I thought you were the police," she said. "So did that mugger," I laughed.
I never realized what a powerful weapon a flashlight can be until that night. London is now a much safer place for me and others, thanks to the American design genius that went into creating the Surefire E2D. Thanks, Surefire. God bless America!
Terry D.
London, U.K.
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Defender Helps Bouncer Down Under
I work as the head crowd-controller (bouncer) at a large venue in Melbourne, Australia. Recently, a man wandered in through the public thoroughfare, which bisects the venue where I work. He was drenched in his own blood (he'd had a fight with crowd-controllers at a venue across the street) and was clearly under the influence of meth.
In Australia, even if you are certified to carry batons, firearms, and/or handcuffs at work, as I am, it's frowned upon. But I'd heard good things from police and my old crew on using a powerful flashlight to help subdue suspects. So, I've been carrying a Surefire E2D Defender® ever since. In his drug-crazed condition, the bloody man took it upon himself to attack one of the venue managers. Since the man was covered in blood, a normal takedown would have put us at risk of contracting a blood-borne infection. But a couple of quick blasts from my E2D to his eyes gave me and another crowd-controller the moment we needed to engage the offender on our terms, and we were able to take him down without risking contamination.
It was my first ever arrest, not made through use of a baton, handcuffs, or firearm but by a SureFire flashlight.
Stewart O.
Toorak, Australia
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Defender Thwarts Home Intruder
It was 3:00 a.m., and I was sound asleep when I was awakened by the sound of garbage cans falling over and something banging against the side of the house. I got up to inspect what was going on, and I looked out the window to see a man trying to climb through another window by standing on the garbage cans. So I go to turn on the backyard light, to scare him away, only to discover that we'd lost power at some point during the night. So I scrambled into the bedroom, grabbed my E2D Defender® and shined it through the window he was trying to get in, while my wife went to call the police. After a flash in the face from my Defender scared him off, we used the same flashlight to find our cell phones to call the electric company to report our power being out.
Thanks, SureFire, for a great product. It was a rough night, but you really helped us through it.
Matt B.
Grosse Pointe, MI
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Burgers Okay, Burglars a Different Story
My wife and I were up late, watching movies, when we both got a craving for a burger from the stand across the street. It was about 1:10 a.m., and the burger stand closed at 1:30, so I grabbed my essentials- wallet, keys, cell phone, tactical knife, and my SureFire 6P®-and headed out the door.
When I got back, I parked the car under the carport and immediately noticed the security lights had gone out. I exited my car with the bag of food and began the walk to my apartment, when I sensed someone behind me. I turned to discover two men following me, both 30 feet behind me. I stashed the bag of food under my left arm, then grabbed my tactical knife with my right hand and my 6P with the left. No sooner were both items out of my pocket when the two men rushed me. I dropped my bag of burgers and lit them up with my 6P, at the same time flipping open my knife with my other hand. Both of them stopped dead in their tracks. Then one guy said to the other, "This guy's a cop!" and they both turned and ran.
I shared the evening's events with my wife, while we enjoyed our burgers, and she asked me for a SureFire of her own. Thanks, SureFire.
Louie G.
West Covina, CA
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Malaysian Evasion
I was in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, and was walking back to the hotel from a local restaurant. I heard something behind me, so I turned around and shined my L5 into the bushes. That's when two guys took off running. I'm certain that my SureFire saved my life, because, at that time, there was a lot of throat-slashing of foreigners going on in that area. I will always trust in SureFire. Thanks for saving my life.
Anthony C.
Huntingdon, TN
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Backup Lives up to its Name
I work as a bouncer, bodyguard, and security guard and have been an avid user of SureFire products since I started out; my toolbox includes an E2D as my everyday-carry flashlight; a yellow G2® at the front door of my home, in case of power outage; a 6P® LED in a V70 holster at work; and just this week, an E1B™ for backup at work. Well, on its second night on the job, my E1B Backup lived up to its name. I was called to a local bar, where an alcohol-affected male who had jumped up on a table in a confined corner had gone from dancing humorously and generally being a laughable character to throwing glasses at staff and patrons.
I verbally challenged the belligerent male as I approached. Said male, seeing my baton on my belt, jumped off the table and pulled me into the confined corner, grappling with me over the table he had been standing on and pulling me onto the floor. At the same time, the offender grabbed the baton on my belt and attempted to draw it, screaming in no uncertain terms his intent to seriously injure me. With my strong hand tied up attempting to keep the baton in its holster, I could neither draw my baton or my 6PL, so I unclipped my Backup from my pocket with my weak hand and gave the offender a flash of 80 lumens square between the eyes, momentarily stunning him and causing him to release the baton, giving me time to break away from the entanglement. As I got up, I let him have another blast with the Backup while I drew my baton, telling him in no uncertain terms to comply with my instructions or else. End result: the male ''saw the light,'' so to speak, and left the bar in cuffs. What could have been a brawl ending with me being seriously assaulted with my own equipment ended well—with a little bit of ''backup'' from SureFire.
Stewart O.
Toorak, Australia
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Story Details
While walking my dog at midnight, a car drove by me after skidding around a corner, blowing off the stop sign. A few minutes later, it did the same thing, but this time came out of a street ahead of me, turning towards me, about 75 yards away. I flashed my U2 a couple of times on the ground in front of me, as they were on the wrong side of the street coming straight toward me.
The car slowed as it drove past me, and then I heard it make a U-turn and saw the headlights sweep past me. A door opened as the car slowed down. Behind me, I heard footsteps running at me. It was nearly black out, with no streetlights. I carry a legally concealed handgun, so I drew it and paired it with my U2, prepared for the worst. As I drew a bead and yelled "Stop," using the U2's full setting to light up the scene, I saw a kid in a knit cap bearing down on me. Yep, a kid—maybe 18. The light from the U2 was bright enough for me to see him and stunned him, making him stumble and change direction back toward the car. He jumped in and they sped away.
Turns out that was graduation night, and these kids were just out having some fun, feeling a bit full of themselves. A weaker light wouldn't have let me properly assess the potential threat. My SureFire U2 saved that kid's life.
Scott V.
Los Alamos, NM
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