Do You Carry With a Round In the Chamber While You CC or OC?

Do You Carry With a Round In the Chamber While You CC or OC?

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I always carry with one in the chamber but I understand those who don't. Years ago when I first started carrying a semi-auto, I felt very uncomfortable with one in the chamber. It took time and experience to have the light bulb click on.

I don't think it really makes sense to disparage those who don't out of safety concerns either or tell them not to carry if they don't fee comfortable with it. I would much rather see someone carry in condition 3 and be comfortable than not carry at all. You don't have to have tactical training to be safe. Some people just don't feel safe with one in the chamber.
 
Schwing said:
I always carry with one in the chamber but I understand those who don't. Years ago when I first started carrying a semi-auto, I felt very uncomfortable with one in the chamber. It took time and experience to have the light bulb click on.

I don't think it really makes sense to disparage those who don't out of safety concerns either or tell them not to carry if they don't fee comfortable with it. I would much rather see someone carry in condition 3 and be comfortable than not carry at all. You don't have to have tactical training to be safe. Some people just don't feel safe with one in the chamber.
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What I was thinking is directly related to the comments in this thread. Mostly " I don't feel safe carrying cocked & locked". JMHO, I think it is safe if practiced competently. If not trained/practiced then I have to admit that I don't want to be around when the adrenaline starts flowing.
 
99+% of the time I have one in the chamber. However I do occasionally carry an old pocket pistol that I got from my grandpa that I don't trust having a round in the chamber until I'm ready to shoot it.
 
I carry my 1911 condition 3.
I know, I know, I'm a dead man.
I am probably even "deader" in that I use a G.I. guide rod and, as if those transgressions aren't enough, I've been known to actually load and carry a magazine with...practice ammo.
 
skimbell said:
I carry my 1911 condition 3.
I know, I know, I'm a dead man.
I am probably even "deader" in that I use a G.I. guide rod and, as if those transgressions aren't enough, I've been known to actually load and carry a magazine with...practice ammo.
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A GI guide rod won't kill you.

Getting an unloaded gun taken away, turned on you, loaded and fired into your body will.
 
Many years ago, CA outlawed loaded OC and just a few years ago, whacked most OC in the state. I have CCW'd here for close to 20 years and never carried unchambered.
 
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I've been known to actually load and carry a magazine with...practice ammo.
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Nothing wrong with that. It's perfectly legal, will handle business, may give you less legal troubles should you ever have to use it and is all I can afford to train with. And I only carry what I train with.
 
Always one in the chamber. I've never been in a situation where I needed to draw. But there are plenty of videos available online of actual attacks. They are sudden and fierce; criminals don't give advanced warnings.
 
One of the reasons I went back to revolvers years ago, I don't have to strain my little brain thinking about things!

If I had to carry an auto, it would be fully loaded in a good holster which covers the trigger housing. That's what safeties and keeping your finger out of the trigger guard until you are ready to shoot are for.

As far as spare tires, I was outraged when I discovered my new crap Hyundai didn't have a spare. No disclosure or nothing from the dealership. For a sick old man in the desert, no spare could be a death sentence. Emailed the dealer parts dept. for a quote and got no reply, so I beat it to a junkyard and bought one. No more Hyundais for me.
 
Yes I carry with one in the chamber, but I have often thought about what it would take to have a N/G and I try to mitigate that risk through proper training and awareness of relationship between the trigger and my fingers while drawing from the holster.

I carry a LCP Custom, so no manual safety, just a long-ish (but smooth) trigger pull. Always in my back pocket with a holster. I probably won't know that I need it until I really need it, so ready to go is the only way to go.

Any mechanical system could fail, but by the design of the gun, it would be a statistical anomaly for the gun to go off outside of having the trigger pulled to the rear.

I've heard (from somewhere on the net I'm sure) that Israeli police or gun permit holders are required to carry with an empty chamber? Can anyone confirm/deny that?
 
Always, but I don't carry a 1911. My choice for EDC is Sig P-239 without a safety. No safeties for this hombre, just one more thing that has to happen when the chips are all down.
 
I generally do, but I tend to carry striker fired guns unchambered when trying out a new EDC holster for a couple of days. I like to practice drawing, sitting, holstering, etc. before I carry my gun "hot" in it. During that practice time, I'll carry my back up or pocket gun as a primary. Generally, it doesn't take me more than a day or two to figure out if I feel the holster is a safe one and that it is comfortable enough that I will wear it all day.

I prefer the feel of a revolver like trigger (shooting preference not safety concern), so even my "super scary goes off by itself:rolleyes:" Glock is outfitted with a NY1 spring. I honestly believe it's easier to stroke the trigger on my LCR than my Glock. There is no reason to be nervous around the gun even though it doesn't sport a traditional manual safety.

I don't disparage anyone who carries without one in the pipe. Their choice:)
 
Here is another article from UT-Austin on the subject of the empty chamber.

AUSTIN, TX – We at SCC have made our opposition to UT-Austin’s proposed empty-chamber requirement loud and clear. As we’ve repeatedly stated, carrying a semiautomatic handgun with an empty chamber flies in the face of the standard training offered by every U.S. firearms school, police academy, and military branch.

In fact, we know of only one professional fighting force that regularly carries semiautomatic handguns with empty chambers—the Israeli army (hence, this method of carry has come to be known as “Israeli” carry). However, before proponents of UT-Austin’s proposed empty-chamber requirement begin pointing to the Israeli army as proof that this method of carry works, they should take a look at . .
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