FLIR Discontinues All Civilian Sales

Sanders · 01-20-2020, 08:59 AM

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According to an anonymous source that spoke to the BurstReview YouTube channel, FLIR will discontinue civilian sales of optics this Monday, January 20th.

According to BurstReview’s sources, FLIR’s board of directors and shareholders are anti-hunting and believe that only military and law enforcement should have access to thermal optics. This source also stated that FLIR allegedly laid off everyone in their civilian and hunting sales departments.

The sources stated this was further supported by recent events surrounding Armasight. Allegedly following FLIR’s acquisition of Armasight, they laid off all hunting prostaff and instructed social media personnel to never show any kill shots going forward.

This is very interesting news, and could turn the market against FLIR. Especially given rising tensions between civilians and militarized police that are seen as overstepping their authority.

But this is all hearsay until the alleged reveal date of Monday the 20th. Be sure to stay tuned for the latest information on this and other stories coming out of SHOT Show 2020.

https://www.captainsjournal.com/2020...ivilian-sales/

REDOAK · 01-20-2020, 09:51 AM

Will they refuse to repair thermal devices in civilian possession?

baboon · 01-20-2020, 10:16 AM

I'm just a poor guy with to much invested i passive to give a shit!

aviator · 01-20-2020, 10:19 AM

I was eating at a sea side restaurant in the Florida Keys and here came this big beautiful boat, about a 40 footer, brand new with everything in it as far as electronics, a large FLIR camera on top and the owners you could tell were refugees who didn't even speak English and looked that they just came out of a cuban ghetto. There is no way they could afford that boat unless they are doing something illegal with it. Spoke to my son who owns a 30 footer open fisherman and he said. yes, it's a telltale among boaters, you see something like that, they are smuggling something.

baboon · 01-20-2020, 10:23 AM

Back when we first moved into the house when cops were chasing people in the helocopter @ night they used a spot light. The circling copter always woke me up. The spot light on my house & yard always hadme up arm myself.

FLIR put a stop to all that alarm.

Sanders · 01-21-2020, 12:49 PM

Optics Planet is having a blowout sale - well, a blowout for some folks, I reckon.

https://www.opticsplanet.com/mkt-fli...4b2f6d4c4d6247

4thIDvet · 01-22-2020, 07:44 AM

i wonder about that? Hell those companies would be competing with each other over military and police contracts which are probably all tied up anyway?
Not selling to the public whether they like or dislike hunting would be a company ending adventure.

Sanders · 01-22-2020, 08:25 AM

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Originally Posted by 4thIDvet

i wonder about that? Hell those companies would be competing with each other over military and police contracts which are probably all tied up anyway?
Not selling to the public whether they like or dislike hunting would be a company ending adventure.

Especially because the wild hogs have gotten wise to being hunted, and have gone nocturnal. So, the best way to hunt them, of course, is at night with thermal scopes and NODs.

Rexydg · 12-18-2021, 08:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Sanders

Especially because the wild hogs have gotten wise to being hunted, and have gone nocturnal. So, the best way to hunt them, of course, is at night with thermal scopes and NODs.

Thats how I do it.. got in just under the wire on my armasight .. flir tau2.

Works great so far.

JD Miller · 01-22-2020, 08:36 AM

Communists company.... Period !

Sanders · 01-24-2020, 11:21 AM

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Hi, We’re FLIR, And You Suck, And We Hate You

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I specifically attended SHOT to speak with FLIR about some of their products. To say they were jerks to me would be an understatement and I actually walked away mid-sentence from one of their smug talking-heads.

https://www.captainsjournal.com/2020...d-we-hate-you/

aviator · 01-24-2020, 12:58 PM

My son just bought one for the company to check for thermal leaks at their installations.

Sanders · 01-24-2020, 01:28 PM

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Originally Posted by aviator

My son just bought one for the company to check for thermal leaks at their installations.

They have a lot of uses. One other thing you can use them for is to check for electrical shorts/hot spots in your house so you can fix them before they ever become a problem/fire.

Fire departments use them to look for hot spots.

It's a very useful technology. FLIR is really shooting themselves in the foot over this.

RetVet · 12-18-2021, 04:23 PM

Some politicians got to them I bet with a promise of government contracts if they stopped selling to the civilian market. This was over a year ago.

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01-20-2020, 09:51 AM	#2
REDOAK Intelligent Posterior Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Ohio Posts: 6,607	Will they refuse to repair thermal devices in civilian possession?

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baboon slug Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Out by the lake in central Texas Posts: 17,514	I'm just a poor guy with to much invested i passive to give a shit!

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baboon slug Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Out by the lake in central Texas Posts: 17,514	Back when we first moved into the house when cops were chasing people in the helocopter @ night they used a spot light. The circling copter always woke me up. The spot light on my house & yard always hadme up arm myself. FLIR put a stop to all that alarm.

01-21-2020, 12:49 PM	#6
Sanders Moderator Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 64,143	Optics Planet is having a blowout sale - well, a blowout for some folks, I reckon. https://www.opticsplanet.com/mkt-fli...4b2f6d4c4d6247

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aviator unum de multis Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Bunker's Headquarters. Posts: 49,820	My son just bought one for the company to check for thermal leaks at their installations.