The KCarry holster bills itself as the “most comfortable holster you’ll ever wear.” Maybe. But the product is fundamentally unsafe . . .
The simple elastic that covers the gun, including the trigger, does little to keep the trigger from being pulled while it’s still in the holster.
I tried this with several pistols, including a GLOCK 19, the firearm used in their advertisement. I found that I could completely pull the trigger with my index finger or my middle finger. That’s because the elastic is soft enough to not just touch, but put light pressure on the trigger itself.
If, during the stress of the draw or just plain missing it, you reach too far back on the gun, only by an inch or two, your finger can land in the trigger guard and pull the trigger.
Keeping the trigger secured is the one thing that all holsters MUST do. This one does not. Red flag. Buzzing sounds. Lights and sirens. Negative Ghostrider, the pattern is full.
Of course, the way to mitigate that glaring safety issue is to carry without a round in the chamber. And frankly, why not?
The draw on this gun is already slow and cumbersome. Unlike traditional shoulder holsters, there isn’t a thumb break to hold the gun in place. Instead, it’s a Velcro tab with a ring at the bottom. You pull the ring up and then you can withdraw the firearm.
This really takes two hands. One to pull the ring up, the other to withdraw the firearm. It’s possible to draw one-handed, but you need to be particularly deft. The tab will close back down while you’re grabbing your pistol.
You’d better hope that you can be pretty still during the draw for that. Considering that hassle, what’s another second or two to chamber a round?
This is a conceal-carry holster for people wearing the right clothing. It’s not a conceal-carry-and-ever-hope-to-get-to-your-gun-quickly holster for anyone.
Unlike traditional shoulder holsters, this one has a wide fabric strap across the front. This means you can’t hide it, like you would a traditional shoulder holster, with it over your shirt but under a sports coat or unzipped jacket. The front band is pretty obvious.
For men wearing a sports jacket or suit coat, the band shows even if you can button your coat, which, while wearing the KCarry holster with a 1911, I could not. It canted the gun too far forward to get the jacket buttoned.
For some women, it would be possible to wear a top that would cover the handle of the gun, as well as cover the front strap below their breasts. They’d have to unbutton, or take the top off in order to actually draw the gun. Then, after disrobing, they’d have to pull the Velcro tab up, pray they don’t shoot themselves or someone behind them, then draw the gun.
I think the odds of actually getting that gun into the fight are slim to none.
If you’re willing to forgo being able to get to your concealed gun in a crisis, as well as deal with the fact that the trigger can be manipulated through the holster, then the KCarry holster’s a fairly comfortable way to hold your pistol. It’s not any more comfortable than a well made traditional leather shoulder holster, although it does hold large framed pistols tighter to the body than the old school shoulder rigs.
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The KCarry holster isn’t a safe or effective carry option.
Kids don’t like barbed wire fences, metal detectors, a bunch of conspicuous security guards, etc. It makes them think they are in a prison. They start to feel depressed and bitter. That might actually cause them to become school shooters.
Some schools are just too big to secure. Kids have to come out of the buildings to do athletics. You can’t build prison walls and have armed guards in towers. Elementary schools are easier to secure, but do you want to have your kids raised in a locked down building all day? Is that even a healthy thing for a young child who should be outside playing/learning?
You can’t really create a secure school when a kid has weekly access to it for years. They learn all the weaknesses and personnel. The only true security is covertly armed, trusted/trained individuals, who are in the school when kids are there — similar to air marshals. Arming teachers is a difficult task because most don’t want anything to do with guns and kids will figure out which teacher has a gun. Some high school kids are big, strong and violent enough to beat up a teacher.
I don’t suppose they ask Alexa why don’t liberals have intelligence.
Might be good for outdoor stuff, like kayaking. I’ve got a cross – shoulder strap holster that the bottom of the holster clips to my belt I’ve used while kayaking (going to hog hunting areas)
yeah trump could act
guess what liberals
he has a pen and a phone now too
paybacks a bitch aint it
executive order:
suspend all federal prosecution of law abiding citizens who go armed on school grounds who are not otherwise acting in an unlawful manner
write a letter to all governors and state attorneys general:
provide adequate armed security in schools or suspend all blanket gun free zones in schools or be subject to the loss of federal education funding
its so easy
somebody has do something
our country is now manufacturing homicidal maniacs
until we fix that all other half measures will avail us nothing
“Comfortable” = carry
“uncomfortable” = sits un-gatted on top of the safe.
KCarry shoulder holster = handles for your woman in the hot-tub
OWB / IWB = not (likely) on you while you are in the hot-tub.
See.
“Oh please Dear Leader!! Make us all safe!”
America continues its rapid slide into s***hole-ville.
Short and to the point.
We protect ‘things’ with armed security.
This is just waking more citizens to realize the myth of gun free zones.
Defense is how we stop evil from happening.
In their defense, not that I excuse them for the failure. An IP address is a shared resource service providers use shared pools of dynamically assigned IPs. Not to mention, the kid could have used a simple proxy service to route his session through a few different locations, making it extremely difficult to trace back, often completely impossible. Despite what conspiracy theorists and the movies would have you believe, it’s not that easy to track and IP of someone who is masking it. Also, VPN services are readily available and based in places that do not comply with US courts (warrants).
Don’t downplay it if you don’t understand it.
I also agree that they probably didn’t take it seriously, when they should have.
I love the henry rifles. But for me, the small game rifle with its enlarged loop and aperture sights is the way to go. I’ve always loved lever guns, but hated their sights.
The small game addresses this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uA3jiXpPDB8
Buying a rifle with a mounted and zeroed scope is a fantasy. At best, the scope will be mounted — that’s the easy part — and bore-sighted. Not zeroed.
Bore sighting should help the owner to get the rifle on target faster and more efficiently. But that’s it.
I bore sight scopes for my customers all the time, and I advise them that it’s not zeroed and show them how to zero the sight when they take it to the range. The best that I can do is see to it that the rifle is on paper at a fixed distance. After that, it’s on them.
The best thing for a customer to do is to buy any one of the many boresighting laser devices on the market. They’re inexpensive and effective.