"what's that clip on your belt?"

[absolute0]

I've been carrying for about a year now. I carry IWB in business casual type clothes most days and often, the belt clip on my IWB holster may be visible to the observant individual.

I've twice been asked now "what's with that clip on your belt?"

It's well known among my friends and co workers that I don't carry a cell phone. Does anyone have a clever come back for me to move the conversation along and away from my holster and concealed pistol?

 

[ribbonstone]

Hang your keys on it once in awhile, fliped over and tucked in your pants...make a show of getting them out and off the clip to unclock things for a few days. People gnerally get use to it and stop asking about the clip...but every so often, wear the keys to reinforce that message.

 

[Nitrogen]

"It's my colostomy bag."

What are you using for IWB carry? I happen to know that Comp-tac makes more concealable clips for their c-tac.

You can also untuck your shirt a bit so it hangs over your belt (that's what I 've done)

 

[dasmi]

"None of your business, what's in your purse?"

 

[absolute0]

I do blouse out my shirt, and most times it's not even visible. It's a black clip on a black belt so it does blend in pretty well but the clip is a little shiny in bright light and can protrude down below the belt 1/2" inch or so if not adjusted properly.

It hasn't been a big deal so far, I just answer "it's nothin'" which seems to be a satisfactory answer, but I'm wanting to be prepared for the time it isn't.

My employer is gun friendly and we don't have a no carry policy at work but I'd just as soon no one be the wiser

 

[Thefabulousfink]

check out Fist holsters,
http://www.fist-inc.com

They have lots of options available including an IWB clip that looks like the loop for a key-ring.

They also will dye there holster in a variety of colors so if you wear kahki pants, you can get at blone leather belt loop rather than black.

 

[Thain]

Does anyoen make one of these that can act as the "eye" for the classic "eye and stud" cellphone or pager clips?

I do carry a cell, being in sales, and the ability to add to the concealment of a weapin would be nice. Plus, like most salesmen I already have a thousand peices of crud hanging from my belt.

Honestly, some days I think a big yellow utility belt with a bat logo on it would be more practical! :banghead:

 

[ArmedBear]

Krazy Glue a clip for some pepper spray on it, and carry a small can of pepper spray.

If people ask why, tell them you were raped once and it will never happen again.

But really, I like the colostomy bag idea best.

 

[bakert]

It's a support for a sling to hold my uh my uh well, you know

 

[Bravo11]

My reply is "It's a gun". Some act interested, some act surprised. I'm perfectly within my rights so it's no big deal to me. I've never had a stranger just walk up to me and ask and if I did I would probably say the same.
Anytime I can spread the word about CCW I feel like I'm doing my part to further the cause.
In fact alot of people inquire about how they can get licensed.
My line for the next question,"Why do you need a gun" is:
"In case I see somethin that needs shootin"
A quote I borrowed from a post on THR.

 

[CajunBass]

Nobody has ever asked me anything like that, but if they did, I think one of these would work.

"None of your business, what's in your purse?"

My reply is "It's a gun". Some act interested, some act surprised. I'm perfectly within my rights so it's no big deal to me. I've never had a stranger just walk up to me and ask and if I did I would probably say the same.

 

[Nitrogen]

I'm not as lucky as you.
My workplace has no policy whatsoever on weapons: it's not mentioned anywhere in the policy manual.

My office only has 12 people in it, but we've got the whole spectrum: rabid gun nuts, to anti's. Plus the one person who likes to just stir trouble.
He had enough fun when I had an old box of Federal hollowpoints filled with screws sitting on my desk.

(Oh my god. [Nitro's] got bullets in here! BULLETS I TELL YOU, BULLETS! )
If someone straight out asked me if I was carrying, I'd probably tell them I was, and let the chips fall where they may.

Strangely enough, the guy who tried to stir trouble with me about my bullet box got wind of some layoffs of people before it happened. He asks me, "Bring your gun tomorrow, we're laying [crazy wannabe nutcase] off. He might try something."

I just told him my gun was not for hire, at least not for any price he could afford. Which is true, but he didn't need to know I already had it on me.

I feel it's best to keep things like that on the "down low" as it were. In the type of office envoronment I work in (sales) you never know when some stupid piece of info can be used against you.

Paranoid? Absolutely. Doesn't mean they aren't after me, though. I like to keep my cards close to my chest.

 

[Henry Bowman]

My BlackBerry

 

[mec]

"It's my colostomy bag"\\

You beat me to it.

 

[Vern Humphrey]

"It's my colostomy bag"

I knew a guy back in the Bad Old Days before Virginia (where I lived at the time) ;passed a "shall issue" law. He carried in a fanny pack. The gun was behind the pouch. You basically ripped off the pouch -- which was attached with velcro -- to get the gun.

There were two pouches, a small one in front, a larger one behind it. In one of them, he kept a plastic bag with "something" in it. If anyone asked, "What's in the fanny pack," he would tell them it was his colostomy bag, and would unzip the appropriate pouch and offer questioners the plastic bag for their inspection.

 

[StrikeEagle]

Many years ago, a very Pro-Gun worker in the office spotted my clip... and with a wink and a nod suggested it was an eyeglass case.

 

[Darkness]

Why are they observing in that general area anyway?

"Are you asking me what I might have in my pants? That's sexual harrassment, you know."

 

[Bobarino]

"insulin pump" often shuts people up. or cell phone clip, multi tool, key holder.

Bobby

 

[Vern Humphrey]

"Are you asking me what I might have in my pants? That's sexual harrassment, you know."

As a piper (Irish, of course), I'm sometime asked "What do you wear under the kilts?"

A good answer is, "Put yer hand in me sporran, Lass."

 

[outofbattery]

Many years ago, a very Pro-Gun worker in the office spotted my clip... and with a wink and a nod suggested it was an eyeglass case.

Last Fall,I noticed a gentleman in Barnes and Nobel's 1911 in an IWB as his cover shirt bunched around it so I said "sir,you're about to lose your cellphone there" and he fixed the situation.He said "thanks,that could've been expensive if I lost it".Yep,here in MA it certainly could have been!

 

[TexAg]

Since I have daibetes, my plan is to use the "insulin pump" answer if I do ever get asked, but I have not been so far.
You say people know you don't carry a cellphone, well I say change that, and make them at least think you do. Why not?

 

[smince]

That's why I use leather holsters with leather loops on a leather belt, all from the same mfg. They tend to be all the same color and blend in. Of course, lot's of people want to buy an expensive gun and settle for a cheap holster...

Last year while shopping for my Jeep Cherokee, the saleman asked me quietly if I was carrying a pistol. I nodded yes and asked how he knew. Turns out he was a retired cop with over 20 years experience. He knew what my loops were.

 

[MCgunner]

I don't like clip type holsters. Mine's a snap over belt loop. I prefer that. It's still visible, though, especially since my Rosen is a "tuckable", I can tuck my shirt in over the gun and the strap shows. But, the "Workman" came with a key fob to disguise it as a key holder. Keeps the questions down.

I was in a restaurant at the register paying once when a guy I knew at the plant comes up. He's kinda a touchy, feely type, gives me the creeps. He slaps me on the waste and right on my revolver. His eyes got big, he backed off. ROFLMAO! He says rather loudly, "Is that a ....." "YEAH," I interrupted, "it is".

Of course, lot's of people want to buy an expensive gun and settle for a cheap holster...

Paid $270 for the gun, a Kel Tec P11, and $140 for the leather. Sounds a little strange, but I'm very satisfied with both.

 

[smince]

He slaps me on the waste and right on my revolver. His eyes got big, he backed off.

Funny thing. Last Saturday we had an area-wide Choir festival at our church. As we have had several vehicles broken into during church services in our area, a few of the men volunteered to patrol the parking areas. I was talking to a friend who was leaving. He is a former MP, so he should have known, but he reached over to pat my waist as he said "I guess your packing heat tonight?"

I could have stopped him, but the look on his face when his hand found my 1911 was PRICELESS!!

 

[Chrontius]

Drew Carey's got a book called "Dirty Jokes and Beer"

There's a whole chapter devoted to "big dick jokes" what: )

Use one of them, or make up your own -- some kind of support system thing springs to mind.