• Warl0k3@lemmy.world
    68·
    5 days ago

    (You’ve gotten them conflated with Kel-lights; Maglites were a knockoff improvement of the kel lights, and were widely available to non-LEO buyers. They were also a good deal less effective as a bludgeon, but far superior flashlights, which is why they became popular. Plausible deniability isn’t worth squat if you can’t find what you want to hit)

    • ilinamorato@lemmy.world
      29·
      5 days ago

      Oh, interesting. I know that the Maglite was intentionally targeting law enforcement, but I didn’t know that they were actually the second generation of club-flashlight. I just looked up the Kel-light and discovered that they were about a decade earlier, which frankly makes it even clearer what (or rather who) the “impact tool” was for.

    • randombullet@programming.dev
      4·
      4 days ago

      Keller paid a commission of $1 to each police officer that convinced another to purchase a light.

      After Keller left in 1972, he continued designing lights for a new company (Pro-Light, 1973), later moving on to Maglite (1979), Brinkmann, and ASP.