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[โ€“] [email protected] 35 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Fun fact: you can get lithium battery and LED conversion kits for these.

[โ€“] NielsBohron 35 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

My dad is one of those "worryingly concerned about self-defense" boomers and I got an LED/lithium ion maglite-ish flashlight last year for Christmas.

It still doubles as a bludgeon and it's rechargeable and puts out like 5k lumens, so while I didn't think I needed anything like it, it's quite handy if you live in the mountains like I do. Nothing scares off a couple coyotes or a bear like just blasting them in the retina with a high-end LED photon cannon (short of an actual shotgun with bean bag rounds like my neighbor uses)

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