I seriously doubt gangbangers are going to spend thousands of dollars on NVGs and IR lasers to shoot cops. Any criminal organization with that kind of money to spend on hardware can get anything they want already, including fully automatic weapons, grenades, heavy machineguns, and probably stolen military nightvision stuff. By definition, criminals are not bound by the law or any other regulations regarding their armaments.
Crimson Trace acting like they are heroically standing between police officers and certain doom is laughable.
Realistically there is no non-military/anti-criminal reason that someone needs an IR laser/scope combination. That has one and only one purpose to kill people in a purely discreet manner. That goes well beyond defending oneself.
Realistically, there is no non-military, non-NASCAR, non-criminal reason to drive a vehicle with more than 4 cylinders. It could easily be argued that the only reason to own a V6 or V8 would be to evade the police, or otherwise break speed limit laws.
Telling people that they can't have something because they don't "need" it is a dangerous "slippery slope".
Really, you need both night vision and IR lasers for hunting. Given me a break. Why not just hunt with grenades it would be more sporting. Tons of people is probably an exaggeration and I know hunters who would not exactly call that "sporting". You just signed up and two posts ever MorePowerPlease ... makes me question your motives for being here.
There are other reasons to kill animals than "sporting". Not all of us care what Elmer Fudd thinks.
Focusing on logic as opposed to emotion, I think that the rancher killing property destroying predators on his property is more legitimate than someone dressed in orange shooting deer because he gets off on it.