re: Who has a laser sight on a pistol?

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Lasers are highly over rated. A good set of night sights is what you're looking for.

Doesn't take a lot of light. You can always see either the glow or the white around it.

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^^^ This.

Lasers have their place, along with RDS -- if you truly have vision problems and can't see regular "iron" sights.

But if your vision is such that you can see your sights, that's the faster, more reliable way to do it 98.372% of the time. (And when your batteries die, and you start trying to find the little red dot on the thug's red shirt at high noon, this percentage increases to approximately 100.00000%).

Night sights = good option for any self-defense handgun.

Tactical lights = also good for self-defense weapons. But holster choices will be limited if it's a CCW weapon. And all the "I want to carry a mouse gun in my pocket" folks will be hard-pressed to fit a gun-mounted light in the pocket of those Levis.

Those folks would be better off carrying a "real" gun, instead of trying to jazz up a mouse gun.

eta: added reference to RDS

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I'm not an advocate for them in any way, but you're acting like finding a glowing red dot in a dimly lit house at night is hard to find.

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I'm sure a laser is easy to find in the dark. But IMO it simply adds time to target acquisition. A good set of night sights are far better suited for acquiring and engaging targets as quickly as possible.

Yeah, like I said I have one just b/c my bodyguard came with it. Im not going to turn it on in the middle of the day or at the range, but getting up in the middle of the night without my glasses or with half closed eyes, it might come in handy.

My Mosquito has one that was on it when I bought it. It works great really.