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[–] AngryInVirginia 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Okay, they may be 5mw but to put emphasis on that figure is sort of saying that we do not have a problem with out of spec and higher rated lasers coming out of china. I am almost certain that you could hop on eBay and purchase a 150mw green laser, or a 350mw green laser. If these protestors are pointing them at people's eyeballs then I doubt that they went on eBay and bought the 5mw instead of the 150mw laser simply because they knew that 5mw was the limit of what is considered safe for human eyes and flash blindness. The color of the laser has no impact on the damage it will cause. Blue lasers tend to be more dangerous only because it takes enormously more power to see a visible beam from one than it does a laser at 520nm wavelength green. The infrared leakage from the cheap green lasers is a serious issue and even if the 5mw green laser is only showing 5mw at that particular spectrum does not mean that it isn't leaking another 200mw in the infrared range.