Modify a CCW

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Ehhh, there are MUCH better IWB holsters for wearing with a tucked-in shirt, than a nylon floppy. So I don't think "great" is the right adjective. Sort of like calling a Hi-Point a "great" pistol. Or a Slim Jim a "great" meal. Functional, probably. Workable? Possibly. Meets some folks' price-point? Sure. Even as nebulous as "great" has come to be, I don't think it really fits.

I'm always surprised to find that anyone even offers a holster with a built-in mag pouch anymore. 5 minutes at the range trying to use one ... make that 30 seconds sitting at home imagining 5 minutes at the range trying to use one ... would demonstrate the extreme shortsightedness of that idea.


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I don't think I own any handguns that have not been modified to some degree. Certainly none that I carry. I surely don't worry about it. But then they are modified for practical match use and have 10,000s of thousands of rounds down range, generally. I think my reasoning and the appropriateness of it would be pretty clear. As well, I don't tend to go in for "evil-izing" my guns, so no Punisher/Skull grips or such to say anything unseemly about my state of mind.
 
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Its a strong and durable holster so i see no problem with it being nylon but the Sof Tuck is a similar style made of leather if one prefers. By great i mean it is very well concealed which is aided by being "floppy" in addition to being durable and comfortable. Its not an ideal holster for anything larger than a subcompact but in my opinion it has a place.

Again, one can simply choose not to use the spare mag holder but having it as an option is not a negative given there may be situations or attire that limit other modes of spare mag concealment. A poorly placed spare mag is better than no spare mag at all just as a .380 is not as good as a .45 but still better than no gun at all.
 
I don't see how being "floppy" aids in concealment. I have several rigid kydex holsters that conceal well no matter what I wear. Same for leather, none of which are floppy. They also have tuckable IWB mag carriers if you need to tuck in that extra mag.

edit:: All I need is a holster that draws well, conceals well, offers adequate retention and re-holsters well. I've yet to run across a nylon holster that will do that.

As far as being comfortable, I'm picky about that. I lost my love handles so there isn't much padding between myself and the holster. Leather works just fine in that regard, as does the right kydex holster. Crossbreed is one of the most comfortable for me. I live in nc so I need to disarm when entering many establishments on a day to day basis. I get the comfort of leather against me and the rigidness of kydex which means I can disarm without readjusting my belt, as well as re-holstering with no trouble.

Edit:: All of my handguns have been modified in some way, included my daily carry. The trigger has even been modified <insert shock and horror here>. :) I shoot often, I know it works and I know what I was doing when I modified it without being an armorer.
 
"...modifying your gun in any way can be used against you..."

Pretty well covered here already, and in many other threads.

Removing or disabling any "safety" would likely be seen (at first mention) as reckless--why would anyone make a gun less safe? If the issue was raised, you'd have to explain why you did it, maybe have an expert explain why it was reasonable, with the prosecutor then calling a rebuttal expert witness...

Lightening a trigger, especially to the point that it is considered a "hair trigger," might also seem reckless. No clear definiton of that "hair trigger," so the prosecutor can argue that yours was, and leave the lay-persons on the jury to decide.

Will this happen to you, if you disable a safety or lighten a trigger? Who can say? Before Harold Fish, perhaps few believed that using HP bullets or carrying a caliber adopted by one of the premier LE agencies in the country could help get you in trouble; with Fish, they may have hurt him. Even though his was "a good shoot."

Do what you want. Realize that after a SD shooting, you might have to explain and justify those decisions, clearly an articulately, to a DA or jury--will your explanations be easily understood and hard to rebut? And won't you and your lawyer have enough to work on, already, without adding those issues?
 
Ther is only 2 areas where modifying a gun may cause legal trouble if done incorrectly.These areas are the safeties and trigger pull. If you deactivate a safety it may come back to haunt you depending on the judicial air at the time. Also if you create what is referred to as a hair trigger it may also cause legal problems. Any modification that creates an unsafe firearm is not wise. Most modifications don't come close to this situation if done properly.
 
I've heard the same arguments when I was lightening the trigger pull on my P238, I don't buy it. I'd like to read about a case where prosecution used gun modifications against the victim.
 
The lack of case law on this issue...

May be precisely because so few people think it wise to so modify their SD gun that it doesn't come up much.

Previous thread here on safeties, with Massad Ayoob commenting.

Re "hair-triggers" the standard citation is the Magliato case, although the way in which Magliato "modified" his gun was simply cocking it, which he then said caused him to have a ND. While the ND was "an accident," the "modification" (cocking) of the trigger was intentional--and he was charged with and convicted of "depraved murder," not manslaughter. (The trigger issue was clearly not the only factor in that conviction; I don't think it was no factor.)
 
I have a used Colt 1911 with the Serise 80 firing pin block removed by a previous owner and yes, I really did buy it that way.
 
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