Lets take my dad for example...
Ex police officer...concealed carries 100% of the time a Sig P226 in a Desantis paddle holster, strong side carry...
We live in the desert...it is hot...that equals less clothes in the summer months. Most of the time he is in jeans with a polo type shirt, or t-shirt....50% of the time, that sig is as visible as it gets. Whether it be printing, or just plain sticking out from under his shirt, or even worse, sometimes the shirt gets hiked up over the gun and it is out in the breeze.
He has been carrying like this for as long as I can remember....everywhere....stores, church, banks etc.....He has been carrying so long he never remembers it is there, or to check whether it is concealed.
Funny thing is, I have never seen anyone look twice...No one seems to notice, and if they do, they dont seem to care.
My theory is that is has a lot to do with the way he looks....Balding, wider in the gut than the chest....he LOOKS like a retired officer...but in a non-threatening manner. I think that may be the secret to why no one has ever gotten upset by the sight of his gun....
However, even if someone did make a call to the PD...nothing would happen...he knows too many people on the department, including the sherrif. Aside from that, he has practically single handedly cleaned up an entire neighborhood (where his office building is) through a 2 1/2 year citizen's-arrest-a-thon that produced 47 arrests in that time period of everything from hookers, to drug dealers, to armed bank robbers....The local PD knows him, and likes him. What was called "crack alley" is now just called Royal Crest St....it's rightful name.
All of the people in the neighboorhood think that his office building is some sort of covert police sub-station. And when I am there, doing some lawn maintenance, or painting or whatever...people walking by wil ask me if it is...I tell them that "I am not at liberty to say". And they give me a smile and a look that says "I KNEW it!"
Ex police officer...concealed carries 100% of the time a Sig P226 in a Desantis paddle holster, strong side carry...
We live in the desert...it is hot...that equals less clothes in the summer months. Most of the time he is in jeans with a polo type shirt, or t-shirt....50% of the time, that sig is as visible as it gets. Whether it be printing, or just plain sticking out from under his shirt, or even worse, sometimes the shirt gets hiked up over the gun and it is out in the breeze.
He has been carrying like this for as long as I can remember....everywhere....stores, church, banks etc.....He has been carrying so long he never remembers it is there, or to check whether it is concealed.
Funny thing is, I have never seen anyone look twice...No one seems to notice, and if they do, they dont seem to care.
My theory is that is has a lot to do with the way he looks....Balding, wider in the gut than the chest....he LOOKS like a retired officer...but in a non-threatening manner. I think that may be the secret to why no one has ever gotten upset by the sight of his gun....
However, even if someone did make a call to the PD...nothing would happen...he knows too many people on the department, including the sherrif. Aside from that, he has practically single handedly cleaned up an entire neighborhood (where his office building is) through a 2 1/2 year citizen's-arrest-a-thon that produced 47 arrests in that time period of everything from hookers, to drug dealers, to armed bank robbers....The local PD knows him, and likes him. What was called "crack alley" is now just called Royal Crest St....it's rightful name.
All of the people in the neighboorhood think that his office building is some sort of covert police sub-station. And when I am there, doing some lawn maintenance, or painting or whatever...people walking by wil ask me if it is...I tell them that "I am not at liberty to say". And they give me a smile and a look that says "I KNEW it!"