This is by far the best defensive flashlight in the business. This is not a flashlight for prolonged use. It is however a great flashlight for intermittent applications (i.e home to car, car to home ect). The thumb operates the switch and the bezel extends from the bottom of the palm for striking or slashing. Even with the light off in the daytime this is a great devise for self defense. Ladies, this won't do you a bit of good in your purse. It needs to be in your hand! It's size needs to be mentioned here as well. Since it is so compact, it makes it all the more difficult to leverage away from your hand. As far as a defensive use is concerned make no mistake, sometimes the only way to create distance from an attacker is to create pain. This flashlight is more than capable of that! Should you need more strength in driving the point home, simply use your other to make a fist over the fist that is holding the flashlight and drive the point home. Don't stop striking or thrashing until you ...
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Excellent product for the money. Same features as some of the more expensive surefire flashlights.

Bright, durable, dependable light. Easy use of activation switch with one hand. Allows defensive option with small light. Expensive flashlight, but worth it for duty use.

FYI: I'm a mobile patrol security officer. For some reason if you plan to use the same size battery of other brand. You will find that it won't last long & 2 batteries cost me $13.00 from my local department store. So I contacted SureFire and they told me it works best with their batteries because it has a longer shelf life and it's specially made for H/O flashlights. I ordered from surefire a box of 12 and when you break down the cost per battery (including s/h cost) it comes out to about $2.00 each and for my short use because I use the end cap button it last many times longer. It's not for continuous use because you'll get about an hour out of it. It be a great defensive item for joggers, because when you run you close your fist so why not carry it when you run. For me I have it in my holster on my duty belt and many times the crack heads and others that I run into tend to think that it's mace or pepper spray of they keep their distance and I avoid confrontation. Note: I don't tell them ...
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