Tom asks:
I’ve yet to see anywhere (on TTAG or elsewhere) any advice for what to do when one is carrying concealed and has to answer the call of nature. Specifically, when you have to drop your drawers to do so.
Years ago, I made the wrong call on this very subject. But after much investigation, I discovered that there’s only one right answer to this problem of how to carry a gun when your pants are around your ankles . . .
The wrong call is to hang the heater by its trigger guard on the hook on the back of the door. That is quite possibly the dumbest idea of all, since not only do you no longer have direct control over your gun but criminals are known to reach over and grab whatever is on those hooks. Luckily someone corrected my dumb idea before anything bad happened, but I know quite a few people who independently came to the realization just how bad an idea it is, so I know it really does happen.
The correct way to do this when there is no obvious shelf or tank cover on which to rest your gat is to unholster the gun as you undo your belt, lower your pants with your unarmed hand, and then once you sit down simply place the gun on top of your underwear inside your now empty pants.
That’s it. That’s the best advice I’ve received on the situation.
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