Guard Dog Special Ops Flashlight/Stun Gun

I took a chance on this product as it seemed interesting to integrate a stun gun with a flashlight. The reviews before mine also persuaded me to move on purchasing one. Though after owning this item for about five months and literally using the stun feature for demonstration purposes five times (per the instructions), I am left with a sour taste in my mouth. 1) The stun feature, irrespective of a full charge, has ceased working. Fully and completely stopped working. This is the crux of the item, else I would have purchased a $20 LED flashlight from Maglite or another well known brand and purchased a separate stun gun from someone else. 2) The build quality is questionable and irrespective of its rugged appearance, the alloys are cheap and soft. I would wager to say that a few drop tests would render it useless with the aluminum moderately marked from impacts with the ground. 3) The anodization quality is poor. 4) The logo is cheap looking - have some pride on your product! 5) The supplied cord is laughably short. So short that it is almost useless. The cord is about 8" long. WTF? Unfortunately, I am past my point of being able to return this item and I wish I could, because a company who puts out crap like this doesn't deserve my business. I would avoid this item, and for that matter most all of their items if you can. Research a better quality one that has a bit of quality control behind it as mine is just a big flashlight at this point. UPDATE: This afternoon, I decided to disassemble the unit to see if anything was obviously broken or misaligned. I tend to be curious about things like this and figured I had little to lose at this point. Now that I have seen the entire insides of this device I'll add additional comments to my initial review. Below the battery pack (which is a Senlin Electronic AAA 2/3 250mAh array of five-AAA's) there is a small circular circuit board that rests within a plastic fitting/wire loom. I noticed that whomever manufactured this flashlight did not properly route the positive lead from the circuit board to the coil. Because of this, the sheathing where it was pinched had been pierced and was improperly grounding out. My multimeter was also able to verify this. On this circuit board, there are two distinct holes 180 degrees from one-another, where the positive and negative leads terminate on the underside of the circuit board, run around the sides of the circuit board, through the two respective distinct holes and off to wherever the leads go to elsewhere in the flashlight. When the leads are resting within those two circuit board holes 180 degrees from each other, there is no pinching of any kind when the circuit board is pressed into its black holding plastic loom. Whomever put this together overlooked this and this caused an issue. Second, the toggle switch. The toggle switch rests lower down within the flashlight handle area behind a c-clip. Another shoddy construction point is that there is nothing else holding the toggle mechanism in place other than the c-clip, so the toggle mechanism is free to wiggle around left/right and move for/aft of the flashlight handle. I took a bit of epoxy and a few L-shaped tools and was able to epoxy the toggle switch up against the c-clip and hold it in place with pressure as the epoxy cured. Once cured, the toggle switch operated as when I got it new from Amazon. I reassembled in reverse order up until the bulb reflector of the cap. I noticed that the two semi-opaque red leads from the stun coil at the very ends were not cleanly cut or properly stripped. Using a small set of wire strippers, I removed about 2mm in sheathing to expose more of the wire per lead. I felt this would insure a better contact irrespective of the angle of the flashlight in the even the wires would jostle around. After this I set the coil leads back into their two tiny holes and pushed the bulb reflector back onto the flashlight housing. In conclusion, the unit is working again, but this does not change my rating. If anyone is experiencing any issues with their unit, I suggest taking it apart to have a look at the guts. I would go even further and say that if you own one of these, that you disassemble and make sure everything is tip top, so it doesn't fail when you need it. I would strongly suggest when removing the light reflector, exposing the stun leads, that you tape these off for safety sake. Use plenty of lighting and take your time. All in all, it is not a complex unit and every internal component is separated from one-another. Additional comments: 6) Insufficiently stripped wire leads from the stun coil to the contacts within the flashlight bulb housing 7) Pinched + lead at the circuit board, caused improper grounding of the entire unit 8) Insufficiently supported toggle switch allowed too much play when attempting to work the flashlight functionality 9) Insufficiently supported toggle switch allowed too much play and prevented the toggle switch from sliding backward to 'select' stun gun mode 10) Insufficiently supported toggle switch allowed too much play and prevented the stun gun button from being depressed 11) Poorly aligned Philips screws stripped easily (used a brand new Klein 604 size 3 screw driver) and needed to be carefully drilled out to allow disassembly.