Open carry holster - no gun?

[JVaughn]

So I'm visiting a local retailer this weekend and I see an employee carrying a holster on his belt with no pistol. This store is a woodworking / hardware store.

I can only imagine that while his employer probably doesn't allow carrying of weapons by employees, he wants to be sure that everyone knows that he has a carry permit and would be carrying if the store allowed? I can't think of any other reason for it. Is this behavior as ridiculous as it seems to me?

 

[charliehustle10]

yes.

 

[mortablunt]

For the most part, it's ridiculous, except as a form of protest.

 

[MtnCreek]

Or he removed it from the holster because he was using a belt sander or because it got in the way of what he was doing at the time or he spilled his sweet tea on it just before you arrived, or ...

Some things make carrying difficult. With an IWB holster and mid framed glock, I remove the pistol for a lot of things like mowing the yard and using a backpack sprayer or blower. I've started carrying a full frame pistol w/ a serpa OWB holster around the house because I can just move the holster a little forward so it doesn't get in the way.

Edit: As a Strategy or Tactic, I would assume an empty holster is useless.

 

[Nushif]

At OSU (GO BEAVS!) we have an empty holster day as a form of protest against the administration's rules.
The super secret squirrel CCW Operators thinks it's a bad tactic, but I've gotten some good responses. Just glad that we're not all super secret squirrel operators, because then nobody would even know firearms existed, because they're so super secret. 8)

 

[Fred Fuller]

What we're NOT going to do is have another OC versus CC slugfest here. I was willing to let this one run until it headed that way, which didn't take long.

Nushif, you can have this thread's head mounted and hung on your wall... but don't go trophy hunting in ST&T again.