Officer Saved When Weapon-Mounted Flashlight Stops Bullet

By Bob Owens | 10:09 AM | November 19, 2015

It doesn’t get much more intense than this.

Keep in mind that the .38-caliber bullet struck the weapon-mounted light at this angle because the officer’s and the suspect’s weapons were pointed directly at one another, and the suspect simply got on his trigger first. If the officer was looking down his sights as we are almost certain that he was, the Streamlight TLR-1 caught a bullet that was aimed at the officer’s face.

Bob Owens is the Editor of BearingArms.com. Bob is a graduate of roughly 400 hours of professional firearms training classes, including square range and force-on force work with handguns and carbines. He is a past volunteer instructor with Project Appleseed. He most recently received his Vehicle Close Quarters Combat Instructor certification from Centrifuge Training, and is the author of the short e-book, So You Want to Own a Gun. He can be found on Twitter at bob_owens.