Repeat after me: Use a holster
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November 22nd, 2011 at 2:10 pm
Better than being a baritone made into a castrato…
November 22nd, 2011 at 4:02 pm
I’d rather be alive and missing bits than whole and dead.
November 22nd, 2011 at 4:35 pm
ummm or you can use a good holster and be BOTH!
November 22nd, 2011 at 6:38 pm
and if you do pocket carry with a holster, make sure nothing else is in that pocket, not even lint.
November 22nd, 2011 at 8:35 pm
I am usually a lurker but I’d like to make an observation regarding the “make sure you (insert gun safety here” posts that gunbloggers seem so fond of. It is certainly a laudable message but I think ya’ll are barking up the wrong tree. If somebody is taking the time to read gunblogs and thus educate themselves on guns, they are probably not the people who are shooting themselves. Conversely, the people shooting themselves, others, etc. are clearly not reading gunblogs or any other educational or semi-educational firearms information. Thus, these things continue.
November 22nd, 2011 at 9:09 pm
NavyDoc, good point, but also we become sticklers because others make convincing points. I never really thought of what made a good holster, or what it did besides hold my gun up when I first started shooting, then I started reading about them, and people told stories of injuries and malfunctions et al.
Not all gunnies are blog or forum readers, but damn near all of us show up at the gun shop, or the gun show, or the gun club…or we just meet each other. A new guy was hired at work, he mentioned guns to a co-worker and that co-worker pointed him to me as the resident gun-nut.
We many not directly reach the guy tucking the Glock in his pants, but maybe the ripple effect will find a few of them.
November 22nd, 2011 at 9:12 pm
If it saves just one life …
November 22nd, 2011 at 11:36 pm
There is always the option of carrying with the chamber empty. A method for which the Glock seems particularly well suited, with it’s large slide unencumbered by a protruding safety lever and it’s light operating spring.
http://thinkinggunfighter.blogspot.com/2010/09/myths-of-israeli-method-of-carry-or-why.html
November 23rd, 2011 at 1:24 am
Reading the news reports it sounds a lot more like appendix carry the pocket carry.There just isn’t anyway to do appendix carry and not have it pointing at major blood vessels.
November 23rd, 2011 at 12:03 pm
When it comes to holster-less carry, I’ve got two words for you: Plaxico Burress.
November 23rd, 2011 at 1:42 pm
In Band of Brothers one guy finally confiscated a German officers’ pistol, which he stuck in his pants. It discharged and he bled out in seconds.
November 25th, 2011 at 5:54 am
You guys are opening doors for more “reasonable” gun control. Some law that all handguns must be carried inside state-approved holsters using your quote, “If it saves only one”…”Repeat after me: use a holster.”
Increasing the cost of gun ownership is a favorite tactic of the poltical class elites. Gun manufacture and range liabilities, ammo regulations, retailer’s massive amounts of paperwork and fees, taxes at point of sale, background checks – all of that we pay for now. And a holster requirement / law would probably get more approval for being “reasonable” from gun nuts than all of the above laws we already have. Add another $50 for an approved holster and how many people decide not to get the gun because it? And when one of them needs a gun and its not there, where is your “if it saves only one” leave them?
November 25th, 2011 at 6:05 pm
I like what my holsters do for me. I took the responsibility myself. It irritates me that people who fail to take the responsibility sometimes suffer the consequences. I would not, however, seek a requirement that someone take the responsibility. That’s where I get off the wagon.