"Smart Carry" - One in the pipe?

[Super Trucker]

I carry a J-Frame .357mag in a smartcarry everyday. In my opinion an un chambered round in a gun in a smartcarry would take to long of a time period to be helpful. If you are scared of the gun PLEASE don't carry it.

 

[Andrew Wyatt]

just how hot does it get where you live? Its one oh five at the moment here, and an unbuttoned shirt is still rather comfortable to wear atop a t-shirt.

if you would like to eschew even such modest cover garments, a untucked loose t-shirt will cover a 1911 just fine, provided you use an appropriate holster.

 

[LightningJoe]

I sometimes use a ThunderWear holster with my Millennium Pro PT745 and I always have the manual safety on when the gun is hostered or stored. I only disengage the manual safety when the gun is in my hand. But an important consideration about this kind of crotch holster is this: when I'm in a vehicle, I naturally wear a seat belt and the lap belt is right across the grip of my gun. If I got into an accident, the gun wouldn't go off or anything like that, but would I experience an injury as a consequence of the gun being driven into my abdomen by the lap belt? Gun fights are rare; car accidents are common. I only use the ThunderWear holster occasionally when I need deep cover, but mightn't it be wiser to step down to my Kel-Tec P-32 when I need deep cover and to stop using the ThunderWear?

 

[Yowza]

...an unbuttoned shirt is still rather comfortable to wear atop a t-shirt.

Who can dress like this all the time? If you're a college student, sure. I work in an office and I wear slacks and a tucked-in dress shirt. Cover garments don't work for me, and I don't feel like spending a lot of money to experiment with tuckable holsters.

Even if the slide safety is disengaged, you would still have to depress the grip safety and pull the trigger in order for it to discharge.

True. My feeling is that any handgun can be safe in this holster as long as you keep your finger off the trigger during a draw. But then that's pretty much the case with any holster, right?

Rick

 

[Omni04]

Has there ever been a case that anybody knows of where somebody AD with a smart carry? Im sure there's quite a few with IWB and mexican, but i can't recall any smart carry off the top of my head. (of course, it is still possible even if it hasn't happened)