
Left to Right: Streamlight TLR1-HL | Surefire M600DF/M640DF | Modlite PLHv2 | Cloud Defensive REIN 3.0 | Streamlight ProTac HP-X Pro | Streamlight ProTac 2.0 RM HP | SMSLaser HFXC v2 At the top, this review is not an ultra-detailed, definitive comparison of every rifle light out there. Plenty of those exist for each…

The new Harbor Freight TLR1-HL clone (we’ll call it the TLR1-HF, see what I did there?) hasn’t been out for 48 hours yet and the Reddit/GunTube meta is already pulsing with claims that it’s “literally the same thing made on the same assembly line” and it’s “just as good”. Let’s go ahead and put…