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In LE, the light on the handgun also helps out when you just don't have enough hands. A few examples are when you have a suspect at gunpoint at night and you are by yourself, the light on the handgun allows you to keep the suspect covered and illuminated and still allows a free hand to use your radio to call for help. It also helps out when searching buildings where you have a lot of obstacles that you need to navigate. The light has been very handy when climbing up ladders to search attic crawl spaces or when popping up onto a rooftop.
I trained with Ken Good at Strategos and based on his training, I really do try and keep the flashlight away from me as much as I can when searching. I finally got my X200b with the DG switch in and it really made a difference when doing building searches. I got to use it for the first time during our inservice training (it fit's on Sims and airsoft guns but was a pain to get back off). What I ended up doing was primarily using the hand held flashlight and then switched to the handgun light when I was in situations like mentioned above. The LED light was awesome and the dg switch made it much more user friendly then the M3.
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