{"id":9573,"date":"2013-01-17T11:43:13","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T16:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=9573"},"modified":"2026-04-27T22:07:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T03:07:59","slug":"viridian-green-laser-auto-on-holsters-shot-show-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/viridian-green-laser-auto-on-holsters-shot-show-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Viridian Green Laser Auto-On Holsters &#8211; SHOT Show 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Viridian Green Lasers<br \/>\n<a class=\"clickTracking\" href=\"https:\/\/www.viridiangreenlaser.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"viridian-green-laser-auto-on-holsters-shot-show-2013\" title=\"Viridian Green Laser Auto-On Holsters - SHOT Show 2013\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.viridiangreenlaser.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a gunfight microseconds count. Turning on a laser can cost you a bunch of time, so several of the laser companies have come up with different ways to turn on the laser instinctively, without a separate thought operation required. Viridian&#8217;s take on it is the Tac-Loc holster, which they call an <a href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/viridian-enhanced-combat-readiness-holsters-green-lasers\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"viridian-green-laser-auto-on-holsters-shot-show-2013\" title=\"Viridian Green Laser Auto-On Holsters - SHOT Show 2013\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"4351\">Enhanced Combat Readiness<\/a> technology. Marketing terminology aside, the holster actual turns on the laser as you draw it, so you don&#8217;t have to put your finger in a certain place and press, and you don&#8217;t have to hold the gun in any particular way for the laser to go on. We have not tested this in house, so this Media Day at the range outing was the first we got at it in actual use. If you have been wondering how it actually works, it works great, but be aware that not all of their units fit all of the holsters. If you already have a <a href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/viridian-c5l\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"viridian-green-laser-auto-on-holsters-shot-show-2013\" title=\"Viridian Green Laser Auto-On Holsters - SHOT Show 2013\">Viridian green laser<\/a>, make sure it actually fits the Tac-Loc holster before you buy one. We should have more stuff from Viridian this week. This is kind of a follow up to the introduction at last year&#8217;s SHOT Show because we haven&#8217;t actually gotten our hands on one over the course of the year. A cool idea is a cool idea, and this one seems to work really good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a gunfight microseconds count.  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This is kind of a follow up to the introduction at last year&#8217;s SHOT Show because we haven&#8217;t actually gotten our hands on one over the course of the year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":9575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_specdata_upc":"","_specdata_placement":"manual","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16,50],"tags":[],"featured":[],"hunt365":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9573","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gunsamerica-authors","8":"category-me","9":"category-shot-show-2013"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Viridian Green Laser Auto-On Holsters - SHOT Show 2013<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Viridian Green Laser Auto-On Holsters - SHOT Show 2013 -\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/viridian-green-laser-auto-on-holsters-shot-show-2013\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Viridian Green Laser Auto-On Holsters - SHOT Show 2013\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In a gunfight microseconds count. 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