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Originally Posted by Black Jack
Therefore if you own a laser legally, it is class 1, 2, or 3a in some measure, The majority of red or green laser sights are class 3A. and is not harmful. I repeat: not harmful. If there was a laser on the market with serious risk of harming anyone, you wouldn’t have been able to buy it. And even if you could’ve done so illegally or gotten a foreign laser that’s built outside of regulations, a handheld laser powered by AA batteries simply doesn’t have the power output to pose a serious risk. You would have to hold the beam on the same pinpoint spot on a person for such an extended time to cause harm, its not considered a serious health threat in the hands of every day consumers.
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As stated before, made in chinese. People lied about their laser rating
American FDA have reported cases of laser power greatly exceeded what they claimed.
http://www.laserpointersafety.com/il...lpointers.html
This is not about annoyance, it's about permanent eye damage. In airsoft people cheap out of stuff included eye protection, what makes you think they won't cheap out on laser at the cost of other's safety? As much as I love the money coming from civil suit for using laser that resulted in permanent eye damage, I prefer to keep my eyesight.
Those PEQ box lasers are a great example. On AR-15.com, someone made an IR laser out of the PEQ-15 w/ green laser using a 720mm filter (removes all visible wave length and keep only IR spectrum of 720mm and greater). What this demostrate is that a 5mW green laser may be 5mW, but it may contain much more IR radiation. The conversion rate of doubling an IR laser to make the visible green is not efficient, having a 50mW green with 200mw IR is not unheard of.
I have no problem if people run Eye-safe laser, but the fact that people cheap out on other folk's cost is disturbing.
As a game organizer, I have no problem with people running Insight PEQ-2A (with high power lock installed and on), Insight PEQ-15 (high power lock), LDI DBAL -Civilian version, or FDA-approved lasers. If you plan on running the G&P DBAL, I will say no because that thing is Class IV on both visible and IR