For clarity; I own Milepost28. I began acquiring PK Design Lab lights as a big fan of his work. I was later honored to become a seller of them. The FL2 LE is still my favorite flashlight, which is one of literally hundreds in my collection. I speak well of PK's lighting tools as a fan, not a businessman.
Now....
When he left SureFire he began a series of lights with personal protection in mind, for potential kubatan devices.
His forte' was lights to be used by military and police. He stuck with that approach with his PKDL items. At first the "schtick" was brightest lights made. But this was at a time when lumen wars meant the 'brightest' was subjective. Companies were stating higher numbers in a boost mode that quickly settled down to numbers less that PK's lights held steady from turn on to battery depletion.
His designs were vastly different and not seen by the masses as appealing. Being PKDL is a hobby while he earns a living designing lights for other uses such as stairway lighting, he decided to stop producing lights aimed at consumers and turn to weapons mount lighting. Again PK was/is designing lights aimed at military and police markets.
His previous lights from PKDL got a bad rap with some because they are made in China. Yet the process he uses is state of the art manufacturing a few at a time in a 2 car garage sized building and assembled by a couple of craftsmen.
