“It's a rich man's game no matter what they call it and you spend your life puttin' money in his wallet 9 to 5”
(thelemmy.club)
(You've gotten them conflated with Kel-lights; Maglites were a knockoff improvement of the kel lights, and were widely available to non-LEO buyers. They were also a good deal less effective as a bludgeon, but far superior flashlights, which is why they became popular. Plausible deniability isn't worth squat if you can't find what you want to hit)