Conceal Carry Purse for the Wife

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My wife has one conceal carry purse but would like a couple more. Don't seem to find that many online that she likes, besides it's hard to guage quality online. Comments/suggestions?

[The Lone Haranguer]

I am neither a woman nor carry a purse, but has she looked at these from Coronado Leather (http://www.coronadoleather.com/browse.aspx?c=2&n=721595)? (There are four more pages besides that one.) Galco makes several holster purses as well.

[ArchAngelCD]

Are you sure carrying a gun in a purse is such a good idea? The first thing a thief grabs from a woman is her handbag. Once the bag is gone so is her gun.

If you really want a gun handbag anyway Galco has a full line of Conceal Carry Purses (http://www.usgalco.com/HolsterP2.asp?CatalogID=149). I'm sure your wife will find something she likes from Galco.

[moooose102]

well, until they figure out a way to make a woman sexier, or thinner, most women will want to carry a handgun in their bags. at least that's what my wife tells me. i tell her, that a pistol strapped to her thy under a skirt would be SEXY!

[dhoomonyou]

look at coronadoleather.com

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Thanks guys

[boalex207]

PLEASE don't let your wife carry in her purse !

I urge all my female HCP students NOT to carry in their purse. The purse is a terrible method to carry a defensive handgun.

The place for a GUN is on her PERSON.

[woad_yurt]

I was with someone who got her purse snatched. It was over in a zillisecond and the guy ran like a gazelle around the corner and into the crowd. boalex207 is right. A gun has to stay with the owner of that gun. Even those purses with hard-to-cut straps are dangerous. Wanna get dragged around by a criminal who's already got your purse (w/gun) in hand?

[Dismantler]

Well...I may get flamed here, but I think purse carry is okay. I wish that there was a way for a guy to have a gun at work without arousing suspicion. It is easy for us to say that a gun belongs on the person. But we do not have to wear women's clothing.

Yes, purses do get snatched. But guns get stolen in other ways, too. If a guy snatches your purse you will lose your gun. But a purse snatcher will not stand there, look through the purse, find the gun, and then start shooting. He will be running away.

If a gun in the purse is the best alternative to not carrying, I say go for it.

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Dismantler, you're right, the alternative is no carry. It isn't the best, but it works. It's impossible to carry in scrubs.

[Robert Hairless]

boalex207, there's no doubt that purses are not the best way to carry a concealed firearm.

But as a thoughtful student of carry modes, and many other things for many years, I've looked long and hard at the female anatomy for scientific purposes and concluded that most women are built differently from men. They have curves that go inward and curves that go outward and the total effect is dizzying.

They also tend to dress differently from men, except at Soviet tractor factories and similar places where no one seems to care and not even I have been interested in pursuing those scientific researches.

So in this matter, as with much else in life, the proper goal may not be the pursuit of perfection or of the ideal but, rather, of what might be accomplished as best one can. This is hard thinking for gun owners who, by their nature, tend to have linear minds that allow of no compromise in any matter whatsoever. But though they might shun mental curves not even they are likely to produce an inside-the-waistband holster that works with tight jeans or a belt holster that can be concealed in an evening dress.

As for proclamations such as "PLEASE don't let your wife carry in her purse," they perhaps assume a concept of marital relationships in which husbands allow or forbid their wives to do anything at all. How quaint.

You of the double dots, I've seen many good purses that are quite suitable for concealed carry by women who are allowed by their husbands to dress in something other than flour sacks. Coronado Leather and Galco are among the good ones. You might also want to order your wife, or perhaps suggest to her, that she take a course with a good instructor such as Gila Hayes or Louis Awerbuck who understand such things and can help her make the best use of the kinds of concealed carry available to women. There are good training methods for them. Not all instructors seem to know it.

[Shadan7]

Excellent response, O Hairless One!

Beyond that, I will say that the Coronado Leather stuff is *quality*! I have one of their vests, and I wear it even when I'm not carrying a gun in it. Stylish, excellent attention to detail, and it is almost impossible to detect that I have a full sized handgun or two in it (think 6" Python and 5" 1911. Seriously.) I love mine for overseas travel. So if you or your wife gets something from them, I think you'll be very happy with it.

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