[steelcobra]

First things first: I'm nearly blind without glasses (I can't read this text at a normal distance without them), and military optics labs never get my script right, so I get stuck with just-not-quite-right ballistics inserts.

I suck with irons, enough said. All of this is for perspective.

Last year's deployment I had the Aimpoint M68 (Comp M2 model). I shot 40/40 with it, but my lenses tend to turn the dot into a backslash.

This year we got ACOG TA31s. I love this sight. Better accuracy than the Aimpoint (easy 1moa groups, as opposed to 5 in the zero target circle), the reticle doesn't distort, and just by switching if my left eye is open goes from reflex to zoom instantly.

And I second on the Surefire rails. Had those last year too. Seriously superior to the standard KAC rails (You can actually take them off), all you need to put them on/take them off is an Allen key.

As to lasers, it depends on SOP/METT-TC/and Escalation of Force rules (from the military side). The AN/PEQ-15, for example, has a visible laser. If all you want to do is discorage a civilian from being stupid, a laser is a good way to do it.