by gentleman john » Thu Nov 06, 2014 7:48 pm
The potential for mishap is there, if you want to be nasty about it.
The actuality is that it has rarely come up in any games that I have run. Most players have preferred to take a dedicated lantern rather than rely on their beam pistols for lighting. Personally, I'd treat it like one of those gun/flashlight combinations that have been "popular" since they first appeared on a Man From UNCLE episode: separate triggers for separate functions, positioned in such a way that a trained individual is very unlikely to get them mixed up.