Interesting- Guy OCing a Shield in a Longmont Safeway this evening.

[.455_Hunter]

If I am going to OC in an urban area, it's going to be with a dress shirt / polo, slacks or nice khakis, and professional looking leather or kydex FBI cant holster. The cargo shorts, hoodie and camo face muff doesn't really cut it.

[Aloha_Shooter]

Eh, the guys who OC like that are distractions from the CC. I'm okay with that. ;-)

[Gman]

Eh, the guys who OC like that are distractions from the CC. I'm okay with that. ;-)

I was thinking the same thing. While some bad actor is distracted by Captain OC, it buys me time to GTFO.

[Gman]

If I am going to OC in an urban area, it's going to be with a dress shirt / polo, slacks or nice khakis, and professional looking leather or kydex FBI cant holster. The cargo shorts, hoodie and camo face muff doesn't really cut it.

Saw that when I was having lunch in a restaurant. Well dressed guy with a 1911 in a nice leather open carry rig held tight to the hip. Looked like he had his stuff together (could have been LEO but I didn't see a badge). I wished more people were exposed to firearms in that fashion. Might desensitize them to seeing a gun and freaking out about it.

[Great-Kazoo]

I have been seeing lots more open carry up this way. 90% of the time they have a shitty holster that is flopping around.

That must be a universal thing. Higher percentage of them, here. Running an uncle mikes, or walmart type, unmolded, nyoln holster. Or better yet one of those foam style ones

[JohnnyEgo]

People that open carry seem like they are making a statement of some sort. A guy open carrying a knife and a gun at the same has a statement that I'm sure I'm not interested in hearing.

In a way, I think of it as it's own public service. A giant sign that says something to the effect of "You'd probably regret any conversation you might have with me." A real time saver.

[JohnnyEgo]

In the interest of full disclosure, I have open carried a few times where it was relevant and/or convenient to whatever I was doing, and I will probably do so again in the future, so I have no great moral objection to it. And I believe a right isn't really a right unless it can be exercised. But I also believe in not being an obvious douche-bag either. And if I ever felt like I needed to strap up like I was making a run through Mogadishu just to pick up some Cascade, I'd probably order it off of Amazon instead.

[RblDiver]

In a way, I think of it as it's own public service. A giant sign that says something to the effect of "You'd probably regret any conversation you might have with me." A real time saver.

[hollohas]

I have been seeing lots more open carry up this way. 90% of the time they have a shitty holster that is flopping around.

The floppy holsters make me cringe.

I think Lauren Boebert is awesome. I appreciate the fact that she is outspoken and is willing to put money where her mouth is. But that floppy looking thigh rig she always wears just looks so... ineffective. Her gun hangs halfway to her knee and being top-heavy leans away from her leg. I really wish some quality holster manufacturer would set her up with a better rig.

Personally, I feel much more comfortable when my holster snugs up against me nice and tight. And I like something higher that I can inconspicuously secure with my elbow if someone gets too close.

[ray1970]

I think Lauren Boebert is awesome. I appreciate the fact that she is outspoken and is willing to put money where her mouth is. But that floppy looking thigh rig she always wears just looks so... ineffective. Her gun hangs halfway to her knee and being top-heavy leans away from her leg.

That style of carry was popular a long time ago....

In a galaxy far, far away.