In the LE context I get having one if you want it HOWEVER COMMA using an WML to search in a patrol capacity is overused. While all of us in LE back in the pointed guns at folks for really stuff we maybe shouldn’t have (remember the pi’s for DAO guns back in the 80’s and why agencies weee reluctant to go to DA/SA autos easier to do that than retrain cops) the wrong people were getting shot.)
LE use WML way too much. And that whole claim “they point down when the light is on is BS that’s proven in force in force with sin guns!
In addition to the wrong person getting shot, In most states it’s a felony to point a loaded gun at folks unless deadly force is justified. I predict in the next 5 years you will se an LEO charged for pointing a firearm with a WML at someone. It will happen at the east or west coast then migrate inward a decade later!
Then you will see the admin fire up the bus and run over a few LEOs that point guns at people and new policy made and retraining happen til the next issue comes up!
So why a civilian wants one or wants to always use one on a handgun outside a hunting or dispatching rodents in the yard role not sure. But some folks live (or think they live) way more exciting lives than most of us!