RangerHAAF
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I'd carry my model 29 S&W with it's chopped 5 inch barrel.
Keep in mind that here in Texas, if your jacket flaps open and someone sees your gun and has a conniption, you can be charged with brandishing. Despite the obvious definition of "brandishing" as being "intentional", that's not the way it plays here in Texas. Casual concealment is not concealment. In Nevada you're not under those strictures. Trust me, they're no fun.
And of course, as a woman, concealment has its own peculiar problems. If I looked like Twiggy it might be easier, but I outgrew that at about age 12. With a statuesque figure (read: curves) the whole issue becomes a lot more difficult with large guns.
It's not as easy as all that, really.
Springmom
Keep in mind that here in Texas, if your jacket flaps open and someone sees your gun and has a conniption, you can be charged with brandishing. Despite the obvious definition of "brandishing" as being "intentional", that's not the way it plays here in Texas. Casual concealment is not concealment. In Nevada you're not under those strictures. Trust me, they're no fun.
Can you explain , what you mean by that please ?
if it is on your permit , it must be carriedconcealed , at least that is the way I understand it. I will double check with a firearms instructor that I shoot with .
Open carry is legal. ( though N.Vegas and Boulder city it cant be loaded )
First, your concealment garment would have to flap open---and why does that happen? A good garment should have both snaps and velcro so it's windproof. Mine does, and in my town, 20mph winds are very common. You can get garments that conceal and stay concealed.
Then, you have to have somebody see the weapon and have a fit? Come on, you're in Texas! I know there's a very few towns that are more like California than Texas--are you in one of them? Still, the chance of being seen can't be that high.
Are you familiar with the website www.corneredcat.com? Good website for the women, by a woman.
I've spent the last four months researching and/or trying dozens of carry holsters and systems. There are so many ways to conceal and carry just about any gun with a 6" barrel or less. Yes, you may have to make some changes in your clothing or what you wear. Yes, it may cost some to make the change to CCW, but it can be done.
THAT SAID.... this thread was never intended to be about helping me learn to conceal my handguns. It's about what all you other people would do if they could wear any handgun they wished openly. Let's not take it down a different path and change the subject
Springmom
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45Guy said:I wish we could, it would be nice. I'd carry my SA XD9 Service or a Ruger GP100, both with two reloads. In some nice tan leather.
So even if open carry were usual and unremarkable I might prefer to conceal until the youngest child in the family reached the age of discriminating between "Don't touch Mommy's gun or holster," and "Mommy doesn't love you so keep your hands off". Foolish, maybe. But they're little for such a short and precious time.
I've spent the last four months researching and/or trying dozens of carry holsters and systems. There are so many ways to conceal and carry just about any gun with a 6" barrel or less. Yes, you may have to make some changes in your clothing or what you wear. Yes, it may cost some to make the change to CCW, but it can be done.
Majic said:JesseL and ZeSpectre,
If you read my post it was referring to someone thinking that if the accidently expose their concealed weapon then they are covered by the open carry law which they are not. Now as to transitioning (which should be done discreetly) once you made the change you must stick to the rules of that mode of carry. If you are now open carrying then no clothes should cover part of the exposed handgun. I f you are carrying concealed the no part of the handgun should become exposed.
I could conceal my Ruger Mark III with the 6 7/8 barrel -- if I wore it in a thigh holster under a hoopskirt -- but if I put DH's M&P on my belt I would either be incapable of sitting down or incapable of drawing (some of the more prominent curves on my female body are closer to my waist than the barrel of that gun is long).
Some people do not wish to wear clothing that looks like it was designed by Omar the Tentmaker.
Women have curves. Gun barrels are straight. Straight shapes do not conform to curves and thus a large handgun on a curvy woman -- especially a short, curvy woman -- can be as hard to conceal as a scoped AR with pistol-grip and bipod would be on a man.
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Some people do not wish to wear clothing that looks like it was designed by Omar the Tentmaker.
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