Good information. What do you think of laser sights?
Laser sights are OK. I think they’re a great training aid to help teach people that no one can hold a gun “rock steady” on an aiming point.
For short-range, rapid-aiming situations, I’ve yet to see any training or advice equal that given me by Jim Cirillo: Learn where you’re pointing the gun. Humans can point at stuff rapidly. Get a set of grips on a revolver that helps you “snap-point” the gun as fast as you could point your finger at something across the room. Stuff the gun out there. Pull the trigger.
Cirillo used to do this exercise with people at 7 yard ranges: He’s tape over the rear sights (especially on semi-autos) with electrical tape. He’d teach people just to learn how to see that their weapon was canted up/down/left/right when they “pointed it out there” in front of them at the target.
When people did this, people who couldn’t group inside a foot at 7 yards were suddenly throwing down groups you could easily cover with a fist. Too many people get hung up on perfect sight alignment at close range, when the rear outline of the gun and your ability to naturally point will get you a shot on center of mass (within a couple inches) right the heck now.
So laser sights: In a dark room, I worry about two things: One, they lead back to you. It’s like the old military adage: “Tracer fire works both ways.” The second thing is that people start becoming fixated on the little red dot instead of the situation. But for some people, especially people who would need to put on their glasses to see a set of sights, I think that they’re a big win.