Attention all pocket carry CCW people, beware of lint. NO, THIS IS NOT A JOKE!

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I carry a Taurus .380 mouse pistol in my pants just about every day. Today I thought I might double check the function and as I pulled the slide back I saw a relatively large piece of lint sitting right in the chamber area. This could/might cause a failure to feed just when you need the gun the most. After taking a closer look I was sure this was just minute amounts of lint caused by the barrel rubbing against the pocket accumutating day after day.

Once again, you never know everything about guns.
 
Uncle Mikes pocket holster for my J frame works well. On 3 th one, as the dont hold up well with every day carry. About 10 years is it.
 
DeSantis Super fly holster user. For 4 different guns, LCP, Kahr PM40, P238 and P938. And never anything else in the pocket either.
 
;););):rolleyes:That's not funny I'm going in to be magnafluxed tomorrow cause I've got a case head failure on my BB
 
Yep, lint should be cleaned out of guns, pocket holsters, and pockets regularly.

However, the lint I usually get in my pocket guns is virtually air filled fluff. It offers virtually no resistance to the function of a firearm in my experience.

Now, if you don't clean out the lint regularly, it can compact over time and become a little brick. That's a different level of lint right there and not what I let accumulate in my pockets.
 
Sistema1927 said:
I had to clean my pocket carry CCW every week in order to eliminate the "dust bunnies" until I changed pocket holsters. Instead of a traditional pocket holster I started using a BORAII, and the incidence of lint has gone way down.

http://www.boraii.com/
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Excuse me, but that holster doesn't even cover the slide. How can it keep the pistol free of foreign debris?
 
Another reason to prefer revolvers for pocket carry...

But as has been said, a pocket holster should solve that problem.
 
Air compressor in the garage. Blow out the pocket once in awhile. Blow out the pistol. Blow out the holster too while you're at it.
 
I'll join the chorus. If you must pocket carry, use a pocket holster! Doing otherwise is begging for a jammed gun or a negligent discharge.
 
When I do pocket carry it's always with a holster, for both semi-autos and revolvers. Cell phone goes in the other front pocket and no loose change in either one.

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If you're going to pocket carry:

1. Devote the pocket to the gun. Don't carry anything else in that pocket. No change, pocket knife, speed loader, spare magazine, etc.

2. Use a pocket holster, one designed for pocket carry.

Better still, use an IWB and let your shirt cover the butt of the gun, or use a "tuckable" holster.
 
I'd take it out and shoot it when it was gunked up with lint just to see if it works. I used to shoot my Sig P938 like that and never had a malfunction.
 
This could/might cause a failure to feed just when you need the gun the most.
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Or it could have gone bang, if you didn't fire it without cleaning we'll never know. Just like we never know how many times a linted gun is shot. My LCP will get a bit of lint behind the trigger even in a holster sometimes I blow it out sometimes I just pull the trigger.
 
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