Dangerous Carry
I have seen a recent trend in off-duty and concealed firearms carry that strikes me as dangerous. The proliferation of smaller, more powerful handguns has spurred a wave of creative carry ideas that are potentially lethal to the user.
December 30th, 2011 at 11:26 am
Can’t stop stupid, even when the stupid is wearing a badge.
December 30th, 2011 at 11:32 am
Outstanding post at the link! I’ve been waiting for someone to tell it like it is, and I’ve been waiting for a LONG time, ever since my first Range Training Sergeant gave me the same message in Police Academy in 1973.
That Sergeant wasn’t even happy with IWB carry, which he said was suitable for only a few who had the right shape of hips and a slab-sided pistol (in those days, mostly just the 1911). He said that if your belt, tightened around the IWB-holstered gun, did not put even pressure all along the slide, it wasn’t safe. He demonstrated this by picking out a skinny Deputy with protruding hips, fitting him with an IWB for a J-frame revolver, then had him do jumping jacks. I think he did 4 before the revolver fell out, then his pants fell down too!
Nope, I WILL pocket-carry if I can dedicate a pocket which closes with a button or Velcro (such as inside my Carhartt vest), or else I carry OWB in a high-quality leather holster with thumbreak.
December 30th, 2011 at 1:46 pm
MTAC all the way!
December 30th, 2011 at 2:37 pm
Not all people who carry a gun are gun people.
December 30th, 2011 at 4:02 pm
Yep, +1 to what Mike V. said.
December 30th, 2011 at 5:00 pm
That’s why I pocket carry my PLR-16.
December 31st, 2011 at 9:56 am
Rivrdog,
Thankfully, since 1973 we’ve figured out how to make all kinds of new and useful things, from home computers, to electronic fuel injection, to holsters that hold the gun in.
If your IWB won’t let you turn cartwheels from here to Nagadoches without turning loose of your heater, you shouldn’t have bought such a shitty holster.
December 31st, 2011 at 11:28 am
Of course it’s dangerous. If it weren’t dangerous I wouldn’t carry the damned thing.