As to the low light positive ID of possible friendlies, it ain’t happening. And in a dark house(we don’t use night lights and limit other sources of light when we sleep), where I am familiar and the intruder is not, a momentary blast of hundreds of lumens of white light followed by darkness let’s me ID the target and does more to disorient them than help them locate me. It’s not like I do this while centered in a fatal funnel, either. And if that light shows a stranger who is armed, the light going out and the trigger being pulled happen simultaneously. And yes, I have trained for this over the last several years.
Besides, it sounds better in court that I used a light to ascertain the nature of the threat than to say I put on the NOD I had on my nightstand and ambushed them in the pitch black house...😂
