Shoulder Holsters for Non Guns -- What on Earth!?

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I think I've seen it all now. Made the mistake of going out to a larger town/city and seing an evening movie show. Huge crowds of college and teen-aged kids walking around with these obvious bulges under their armpits and straps across their backs. They're even taking off their jackets and walking around with these things fully exposed. It was almost funny to see these young fellows strutting around like Don Johnson back in the Miami Vice days.

Would you believe it, they are marketing shoulder holster style harnesses for kids to stash cell hpones, Blackberries, Palms, GameBoys and spare game cartridges, and even wallets!?

This seems to me to be a death wish waiting to happen. What am I missing here?
 

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You know this could make such items less likly to get stolen or lost then clip clipping them to a belt.

But I can see a few kids getting shot due to some cop thinking a gun is being drawn.

-Bill
 
Wow, that is a lot of material to hold a freakin' gameboy or a cell phone. I manage to in my pockets carry:

Keys
Change
2 pens
Dell Axim PDA
Chapstick
Cell phone
Wallet
Kel-tec P32

If you need anymore storage get a darn backpack.

Oh, and I'm finishing up my last semester of classes, I've yet to seen one of these.
 
GOOD! Now I can carry a scoped Redhawk under my coat and the folks who see the 'lump' will not automatically assume "GUN"! hehe
 
Hey, if this catches on, it may provide enough cover for a skinny guy like me to actually carry a CCW in a shoulder holster...

I'm too narrow front-to-back to conceal a 3913 in a shoulder rig, unless I'm dressed like the Michelin Man. But if everybody is printing from a shoulder rig... :D
 
Nothing new here. I had one in colege (late 60's) that held two 1 pt. flasks, one on each side. It was very discrete. I currently carry all my 'toys' in an Eagle Creek sholder bag, including:
keys
Cell phone
sun glasses
leatherman
butatne lighter
Cigar case
PalmPilot
earphones
meds
OC
CRKT Mirage
wallet
two card cases
SureFire
misc other stuf
&sometimes Kahr P-9/spare mag
 
call me a tactical poser nerd but I think they are pretty neat, I won't wear one, but I wouldn't hold it against someone if they did. Its not at all like that retarded dutch handbag with a fake gun silhoutte in it.

atek3
 
Shoulder Holsters for Non-Guns

The item in question - as shown in the picture anyway - is an E-Holster. See WWW.EHOLSTER.Com. I have used one since 2000, and have never dropped my cell phone. Works under any outfit - including a tux.
 
Something like this would be great for people (like the idiot across the street) who wants people to think he's carrying a gun so they'll think he's cool. :uhoh:
 
I don't know about the pseudo-shoulder holster set-up, but I do like the rig that hangs the cell phone off of the belt.

Maybe with an extension unit and a thigh strap, I could turn one into a tactical thigh holster for my cell phone.

Jubei
 
Nothing New

Bulldozer,
This is nothing new. I started out shooting handguns in the early '80's and some of the young folks started using these shoulder holsters to carry notebooks, calculators, etc..
I asked a few of these folks why?...They admitted it that it made them feel more daring (James Bond type)

It's funny. I used to hang out a lot at Ted Blocker's when he was here in soCal. One day a Japanese businessman came in ...bought over a 100 shoulder holsters built Miami Vice style at over $100 a pop then. (I like mine) I asked Blocker's son what's up because I thought that in Japan they couldn't even possess a gun. He said that every few months a company man would come in to order a bunch of leather accessories for their....wait for it...airsoft weapons. Turned out they wanted to carry their plastic guns to make them more James Bond types.
Sigh...guess they'd like to have real ones one of these days. :neener:
 
There was a BBC show called The Office. Their Network Security guy is basically a Mall Ninja minus the weaponry. He carried his cell phone in a shoulder rig. It was quite funny! All the guys I was working with over there were threatening to buy one for me, cept I didn't have a cell phone, since I was on TDY there.
 
I bought one of those in '92. It had skinny leather straps and a small leather pouch with a snap closure. I thought it was a great way to carry my wallet and keys until someone asked if I had a gun in it. I didn't like wearing it so much after that. This was pre ccw in my state. :(
 
Haha, that is ridiculous. Anyone wearing one of those around my campus would be ridiculed mercilessly. Then again, maybe we're just behind the times down here in the South :rolleyes:
 
But I can see a few kids getting shot due to some cop thinking a gun is being drawn.
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Nothing like a little extreme rhetoric to add to the fun of the situation. If the kid has a should holster under a jacket, why would a cop think it were a gun any less than a kid pulling something out from his inside jacket pocket? I can see a few kids not getting shot anymore than normal. I don't think you can blame the shoulder holster on this, only a stupid kid who goes darting into their jacket when being confronted by a police officer. And then again, how often do you hear about that happening?

It is just a set of leather or nylon straps. If someone wants to wear it, hey good for them. Real gun owners never wear those things anyway! :neener:
 
The first one I ever saw was back around 1978. I was a rookie, "walking the beat" on Main Street. Saw a guy hanging around outside the movie theatre, acting sorta nervous, as it was beginning to grow dark. I ambled over and inquired if he needed any assisatnce; also asked if he might have some form of identification . . .

He smiled, pulled the left side of his jacket open, and reached toward an obvious "shoulder holster" with his right hand. I demonstrated why a proper, stronside hip holster is somewhat faster than most shoulder rigs! That "shoulder purse" actually had the overall shape of a holster!

He got irate, apparently because I was carrying hollowpoint ammo (he could clearly see the rounds from the front of the cylinder . . . :rolleyes: ) and demanded to speak with my sergeant. Sarge drove up, heard both sides, looked at the "shoulder purse," and calmly asked why I hadn't fired immediately, as I should have!

Ah, the old days!!! ;)

Nope, I just couldn't see my way clear to wearing one of those things!
 
I have something like that I use for my passport and emergency cash when travelling overseas... but that's mostly in countries where firearms aren't worn by civvies anyway.
 
I have something like that I use for my passport and emergency cash when travelling overseas..
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Now that I can see as a valid use for something like this. Stuff like that, where you're a long way from home and totally screwed if you lose it.
 
I had something like this as well when I was running errands for a jewelry shop. It tended to show less than something in a jacket pocket and carrying anything in hand walking from a jewelry store to a jewelry repair shop is just inviting a snatcher.
 
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