True Stories

A buddy of mine, who trained with Special Forces, showed me his M4 Devastator®. I race sailboats and have always had trouble at night with crossed halyards at the masthead, which on our boat is 60 feet up from the deck. Not being able to straighten out halyards can be a real safety issue on any sailboat, but especially on a racing boat when you're pushing things to the limit 24 hours a day in all kinds of weather during a competition. In the dark of night, in a driving rain, a four-cell Maglite isn't powerful enough to sort out the halyards.

Well, I quickly achieved hero status by borrowing my buddy's M4 and taking it on our race from Victoria, Canada, to Lahaina, Maui. It lit up the world and allowed us to clearly see, and clear, the halyards on several occasions over the 2,308-mile race. It was a major contributing factor to us winning our class in the race, and gave us the confidence we needed to see and solve even the most vexing problems at night.

This year, I gave SureFires to my entire secretarial staff as self-defense tools for Christmas. There is absolutely no substitute for the value your product generates on so many fronts.

Linn L.
Tacoma, WA

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