Associate Online Shooting Editor Paul Rackley visited SureFire’s headquarters in Orange County, Calif., to check out their products and manufacturing processes.
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SureFire
For more than 30 years, SureFire has been creating high-tech illumination devices. They just weren’t always called SureFire.
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The Terminator
SureFire, then known as Laser Products Corp., produced the gunlaser carried by Arnold Schwarzenegger in the iconic film “Terminator.”
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Quality Materials
Every quality product begins with quality materials. Here is an aluminum stock before being loaded into the CNC (computer numerically controlled) machines.
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LX2 LumaMax
Today, SureFire is best known for its high-quality flashlights.
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Machining
CNC machines produce the tightest tolerances possible.
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Machined Bracket
When parts drop out of the CNC machine, they resemble the finished product. Here is a bracket for the X400 Weapon light.
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Metal Shavings
Waste shaving are sent to the recycler to be turned into other products.
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Ready for Electronics
A machined tube for an X400 LED Weapon Light before heading to the assembly line to receive its electronics.
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X400 LED Weapon Light
The X400 LED is a 110-lumen light with a laser aiming device.
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Tight Tolerances
Every SureFire product is CNC machined with the tightest tolerances possible in their Orange County, Calif. plants.
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Integrating Sphere
All SureFire lights are tested using an Integrating Sphere.
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Almost Done
Nearly complete L1 LumaMax flashlight.
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L1 LumaMax Flashlight
This compact 65-lumens flashlight features a virtually indestructible power-regulated LED emitter that provides more illumination than most D-cell flashlights.
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A2 LED Aviator
This compact 120-lumen flashlight weighs only 4.3 ounces and will run for two hours at max output.
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V2 Vampire
The V2 Vampire produces both white and infrared light without the need of an IR filter. Weighing 5.6 ounces, the V2 has a max white light output of 100 lumens and 95 lumens in infrared mode.
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Going Out
Finished products ready to ship.
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Saint Minimus LED Headlamp
A smaller version of the Saint LED Headlamp, the Saint Minimus runs on a single 123A battery and weighs only 3.3 ounces while producing 100 lumens at max output.
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