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Posted: 10/26/2013 7:33:29 PM EDT
| Hey everyone i need some help here. i am not law enforcement but i am ex-military and i want to buy an eotech atpial ir laser illuminator. can i as a civilian do this? |
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Not sure of the answer, but you will have better success asking in the Night Vision forum:
AR15 NV Forum link |
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Not sure of the answer, but you will have better success asking in the Night Vision forum: AR15 NV Forum link I'd check there, but as far as I know, you can't. Mostly due to output measurements really. You can find the DBAL units in a type 1 IR laser, but thats it last I heard. The NV forum and TNVC are the guys to go to. |
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Only gov organizations can buy those (or other restricted lasers)
There are some very nice Class 1 IR units available from Laser Devices, Crimson Trace, Wilcox, and soon Insight/L3. You can check out the Class 1 section at TNVC to see what's currently available. The Wilcox unit is available from another company exclusively. |
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It is not illegal for you to have an ATPIAL, but as a civilian you will never get one drop-shipped to you new from L-3/EOTech. You can occasionally find them on the secondary market, but they are usually very expensive and of questionable origin. You also will not get any factory warranty support.
I don't agree with any of this, but that's the current state of affairs regarding military IR lasers. The Class-1 stuff is probably the best option for civvies. I think most of us are hoping that a low-powered version of the ATPIAL (identical to full-powered version in every way except IR laser output) will make it to market at some point, but there hasn't been any evidence that will happen; then again, no one thought FN would release factory CQC barrels. So, like Kevin Garnett, anything is possible. 
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