Here in Michigan, most of us use Streamlights with a couple of guys using MagLites every now and then. Over the years, I've bought probably 10 of them out of my uniform allowance money. Great flashlights, they can really absorb a lot of punishment and during the past couple of years have had great improvement to their switches. That, as well as limited run-time used to be the only negative comments I could make of Streamlight. Now, I just keep an extra battery stick charged and in my gearbag. I can see how they could become an addiction...just not as bad as airguns are.