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

they are 5mw!

I owned MANY 5mw , and have two on my desk, and owned them the first year they ever were sold as hand held battery devices well over 12 years ago,

THEY ARE 5 milliwatt because I played with 5 milliwatt often and have very very good feel for guesstimating 5mw

One voater claimed they might be modded or out of spec from alibaba and sold as 5mw but a little over spec.

The FBI claimed a BLUE lab laser was used to blind though glass windows :

blue is very very bad and dangerous :

https://www.apslasers.com/20w-to-50w-fiber-coupled-blue-lasers/

5mw blue handheld also exists as a classroom pointer :

https://www.laserpointerpro.com/attribute/power_5mw-lasers_2

Over 95% of the portable weapon lasers on that site are illegal to carry in public on your body... yet sold freely on that site to antifa!

An entire page of 50 watt class 4 deadly lasers , an entire PAGE of 50 watt that start immediate fires ! : https://www.laserpointerpro.com/attribute/power_50000mw-lasers_105

so who knows if a lab grade blue was used, but its possible.

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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.