One in the chamber?

[Buckaroobonsai]

Think of the reasons why you carry a gun in the first place. Then consider having to chamber a round first if one of those situations actually happened. That might help you decide.

[3beansalad]

Interesting video I hadn't seen before showing what most of us already know.

[Great-Kazoo]

Interesting video I hadn't seen before showing what most of us already know.

Shit, he could have been 20' away and still scored hits, on her.

[kidicarus13]

I would like to think common sense tells everyone you need to have a round chambered. An unaltered factory trigger will not go off in a holster made for your specific pistol. But... to each his own.

[blacklabel]

I would like to think common sense tells everyone you need to have a round chambered. An unaltered factory trigger will not go off in a holster made for your specific pistol. But... to each his own.

But if you don't chamber a round then you don't need a holster. /sarcasm

[osok-308]

If you're afraid to carry one in the chamber, walk around with your gun empty but cocked, at the end of the day, check if it has remained cocked. Which it (almost certainly) has. Now ask yourself "It the firing pin hasn't dropped, am I afraid that it will go off, just because there is a round in the chamber"/

[68Guy]

Shit, he could have been 20' away and still scored hits, on her.

I train in Krav Maga as part of our Church security team. All of us are either current/former military or police and some are active SWAT members for the local PD. We are all concealed carry and training using airsoft, blue guns and rubber knives. As this video showed, if you allow an individual in that "interview" space - you are NOT going to come out well in a deadly scenario. Every single time we tried it, we always received some kind of knife wound. At best, we learned to train stepping to the side while drawing and then taking the shot in the (hopes) that the attacker has already committed to the attack and cannot change angles as quickly. We tried it a few times with an empty chamber and as so many have said in this thread - it is a ridiculous way to carry if you intend to actually protect yourselves. Here is one for you to think about. If you are a shooter that practices the current techniques of a two handed triangle stance, during the draw stroke, your support hand has two functions; to lift up and away your cover garment and, to meet the firearm as it is moving to eye level and being pushed out towards the target. You would have to completely break up that proven technique to introduce a step to rack the slide AND - you darn sure have to hope that a round successfully chambers!! I always carry with one in the pipe including appendix carry and I know there is a round in there because I did a chamber check after I put it there while NOT under duress. In most cases, I leave the weapon in the holster and remove them together from my belt and they do directly into the gun safe at the end of the night so at no time is the trigger of my Glock ever at risk of being pulled. I leave it that way. The other Glock in the safe is in a sleeve and has the weapons light attached (and also loaded hot) so if I needed access in the house, that one comes out! My $0.02

[Kmac]

I train in Krav Maga as part of our Church security team. All of us are either current/former military or police and some are active SWAT members for the local PD. We are all concealed carry and training using airsoft, blue guns and rubber knives. As this video showed, if you allow an individual in that "interview" space - you are NOT going to come out well in a deadly scenario. Every single time we tried it, we always received some kind of knife wound. At best, we learned to train stepping to the side while drawing and then taking the shot in the (hopes) that the attacker has already committed to the attack and cannot change angles as quickly. We tried it a few times with an empty chamber and as so many have said in this thread - it is a ridiculous way to carry if you intend to actually protect yourselves. Here is one for you to think about. If you are a shooter that practices the current techniques of a two handed triangle stance, during the draw stroke, your support hand has two functions; to lift up and away your cover garment and, to meet the firearm as it is moving to eye level and being pushed out towards the target. You would have to completely break up that proven technique to introduce a step to rack the slide AND - you darn sure have to hope that a round successfully chambers!! I always carry with one in the pipe including appendix carry and I know there is a round in there because I did a chamber check after I put it there while NOT under duress. In most cases, I leave the weapon in the holster and remove them together from my belt and they do directly into the gun safe at the end of the night so at no time is the trigger of my Glock ever at risk of being pulled. I leave it that way. The other Glock in the safe is in a sleeve and has the weapons light attached (and also loaded hot) so if I needed access in the house, that one comes out! My $0.02

Absolutely agree...great analysis

[KS63]

Condition 1 on a 1911 from day one. Gun passes all safety checks and is carried in a quality holster made for my pistol. I've never, ever worried about an AD. Ever. I'm confident in my equipment and abilities carrying this way. Any update on the OP's friend?

[Irving]

I once had a CZ 75B cocked and locked come out of the holster and bounce down the stairs.