Who Has NV On Their HD Carbine?

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@Riverine

Good grief, no kidding. This^^^ +100.

Anybody Joe Citizen using Image Intensification equipment such as this, or thermals (unlikely, and also not a good idea) needs to look up the operational definitions for Detection, Recognition, and Identification, particularly if it’s your intent to NOT go to jail after a shoot, regardless as to whether or not it was morally justifiable or not.

I wouldn’t go so far as to say that white light is better for HD, but I think it’s certainly smarter.

Unless you have a fantastic shyster on retainer, and are prepared fror more potential legal drama that you’d have to put up with for zapping anybody, good guy or bad guy, based on a pixelated, projected image interpreted through an intensifier tube and projected on a 2D screen that has to be further interpreted by your brain before you make PID on shoot/no shoot. A law student with barely any memory of how the electromagnetic spectrum works could do a good job of chewing you up on the witness stand, or if you refuse to potentially self-incriminate, have a better chance to convince a jury that, best-case scenario, that you reached your info-overload point while looking through an image-intesified toilet parep roll with no peripheral vision… you can see where this is going. I-Square mounted to the gun, I think in this case, introduces variables into a situation in which you would be better served reducing variables.

Warfighters have more leeway than folks protecting their home, so it’s a judgement call.

I think if you identified someone with NV in your home in complete darkness carrying a weapon after forcing entry, you’d be justified to shoot whether it was a multiple mass murderer or the Pope.

With that said, no one is going to be breaking into your home in total darkness and attacking you or stealing your stuff without the aide of white light (unless you can show where burglars routinely use NV in home robberies). Therefore, any advantage NV might give will be negated either by the light the subject is using, or the available lighting in your home.

So,

Back to the original question and away from everyone’s legal opinion on who you can shoot and why: does anyone else have NV mounted on a gun they would use for HD?
No.

[JSantoro]

@DWood

Back to the original question and away from everyone’s legal opinion on who you can shoot and why: does anyone else have NV mounted on a gun they would use for HD?

Whoops, sorry! :o