Mexican Carry Strikes Again

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I was just out at Home Depot for a really fast run to get some paint that was NEEDED asap.

I put my GLOCK 23 into my waistband "Mexican style" and made it to the store and home with no AD's.or ND's.

I do take the OBVIOUS caution of using a trigger guard that will disengage when I draw.

This is not my usual EDC manner,but as all I had on was a T shirt,that was all that was needed to cover the gun VERY WELL.

Sorry that all don't learn the proper way to EDC in all manner of carry positions.

I turn 70 this month,been doing this for a "few" decades.

Rant all y'all like,I am still smelling the coffee & bacon !!.AND on the right side of the daisys and grass seed
 
I developed a deep aversion to jamming a handgun into the waistband the first time I responded to a case where a rather dumb armed robber had concluded his crime by doing just that, and blowing away a good part of his male appendages. Major mess and major pain and a major lesson . . .
 
However you carry your gun it must be:

1. Securely held in its carry position. This should be common sense. You don't want your gun falling to the floor or pavement. It will cause cosmetic damage and potentially cause serious damage, it creates the chance (however small) of an unintentional discharge when it impacts, it will be embarrassing for you and alarming for others. And besides, if it shifts, it may make it difficult or impossible for you to draw it rapidly and/or safely.

2. Carried in a manner consistent with its design philosophy. Many of the common carry guns these days require a carry method that absolutely protects the trigger and prevents it from being manipulated unless the gun is drawn.
 
If any of my friends are caught Mexican, I'm pistol whipping them. I'm tired of those stupid soft holsters as well, those don't do anything.

There is no excuse for that cheapness. Good holsters are only $45-100. KT, Bravo, Crossbreed, Ravens.
 
Good Ol' Boy wrote:
...I don't think I would mind a law that said if you are going to legally carry a pistol (open or concealed) that it must be in "some" type of holster.

Enter the company that makes a "holster" out of underwear elastic.
 
Jeff White wrote:
Weapon slipped out of his waistband and he negligently fired it trying to catch it.

Well, I guess it's a blessing that he - rather than an innocent third party - was injured.

It is also a cautionary tale for the rest of us. After all, none of us know when we take a "shortcut" whether it will set in action a chain of events that put us on the 5 o'clock news and we become the next poster child for the anti-RKBA forces. Be vigilant.
 
Enter the company that makes a "holster" out of underwear elastic.
Those can be useful--at least they carry the gun securely and prevent it from shifting or falling. But, IMO, guns carried in soft holsters that don't prevent the trigger from being manipulated should have either a very positive manual safety, or a long trigger with a pull weight in the general vicinity of 10lbs.
It is also a cautionary tale for the rest of us.
It certainly should be! It's a lot less painful to learn from the experiences of others rather than having to make every mistake personally. But some people don't seem to get the lesson unless they can feel the pain themselves.
 
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Having tried it with empty guns in the comfort of my own home, I'll pass on that method of carry. Even if it doesn't go off, its downright embarrassing when it skitters across the floor........
 
Having tried it with empty guns in the comfort of my own home, I'll pass on that method of carry. Even if it doesn't go off, its downright embarrassing when it skitters across the floor........
"Disconcerting" is the word I would use when an Hk USP 40 comes skittering out onto the restroom floor from a stall while you're standing in a..."tactically unsound position" at a urinal.

Circa 1994....brother officer (detective in plainclothes) having a sitdown meeting while I was standing at the urinal. His gun comes rattling out from under the stall and skitters across the tile and comes to rest at the door where it is promptly hit back into play by the guy coming through the door, one more ricochet off the trash can and it finally comes to rest.

I said words that are only appropriate at a family reunion.

Yeah...pass on the Mexican Carry...

Even one of these cheapies would have been preferable to his "cool dood carry"
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Before anything else is said... in the real world "casual carry" is very, very common (good guys, bad guys, and lots of others who should know better - including me - way back when before I retired....). No, it was never a good idea - but then so is standing at a bar until it closes - while carrying - the way many, many cops I worked with did, all those years ago....

I haven't carried a sidearm even once since I retired out ( Oct, 1995) and during that era there were hardly any armed citizens here in Florida. I know everyone's better educated and trained regarding weapons these days ( hope so at any rate...) but don't kid yourselves about how folks actually behave....

Besides, where do think all those movie plots come from?
 
There is a certain advantage to being clumsy and unlucky in some respects. I tore my meniscus one time by simply turning on level ground and turning to go back into the house. I can stumble over my own two feet. My dog took me grass skiing over a retaining wall one time chasing a rabbit. I never win drawings, lotteries, etc. The one time I won a door prize in a drawing, the shirt was too small and was used.

But, I am above ground, can appreciate a beautiful day, have a good job and wife, and weathered some bad times in one piece and I will take that tradeoff.

I always assume the worst when I am doing home repairs and woodworking with saws, drills, lathes, weeding the yard, cleaning the gutters, getting on tall ladders, or carrying firearms. That guy Creaky Old Cop describes would be me if I had an H&K and a holster that did not have retention features.

As much as possible, I go for the "higher drag", rifles have slings and safeties, pistols are in holsters with retention mechanisms, and firearms that are not drop safe have empty chambers.
 
Man accidentally shoots self while at grocery store
http://via.fox2now.com/OY6MF

I have no idea why people continue to do this.

Weapon slipped out of his waistband and he negligently fired it trying to catch it.

Sounds like a not atypical double whammy of a couple problems.

Not securing the handgun in a suitable holster, and having a finger find the trigger while trying to catch a falling handgun.
 
My partner and I, undercover, stopped at a gas station. He carried a Beretta Tomcat in SOB position, in the waistband. As he exits the car, seatbelt grabbed the gun and it went off. Mostly still in the car, not too much noise. We're cool, standing in checkout line. Partner whispers in my ear "We gotta go, my shoe's full of blood." Also known as shooting oneself in foot. If he reads this, he'll be glad I didn't name him. Quit watching Magnum P.I. after that.
 
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