“Did you know that 35% of the new customers entering the shooting sports are women?” a SHOT Show seminar asked. “Women shooters are the single fastest growing category in our industry not to mention that women are highly involved in purchasing decisions for the household.” Increasingly, the question for ballistically curious women is not “if” or “when” but “how”? Which also involves “what”? A small gun, usually. (Hence much of the excitement surrounding the new GLOCK brand GLOCK 42). I’m one of those who believes all Americans should pack the largest gun they can comfortably carry. Here’s a solution for women who agree: the Can Can Concealment holster sold as The Big Shebang! Now women don’t have to holster a mouse gun, or complain that they can’t if they choose to. Nor do they have to be the gal with the one gun that everyone’s afraid of. In fact . . .
Although the video above shows a model secreting a gun, knife and magazine, she could, instead, holster three guns. (For those of you who just had an image of the rabbi wearing one of these, my sincere apologies.) Now there’s no excuse for a woman not to carry a “proper” gun.
OK, maybe there is. Comfort. TTAG’s securing some samples for test and evaluation. Most of us are manly men (amongst men doing manly things), but I can think of at least one crew member who can give it a go. Watch this space.
UPDATE: We’ve secured three samples for a giveaway. Contest rules tomorrow.
Love the big shebang..going to have to purchase one.
CCW is tough for the ladies, I’ve been having the other half try on my handguns trying to see what she can conceal. Even the shield prints in many cases IWB and with a belly band. Its either a smaller gun, or a whole new wardrobe for her to dress around it.
No getting around the fact that most female clothing is designed to feature what’s underneath. It attracts guys and annoys less attractive women, which are the two whole points. Hard to conceal with though, you’re right about that.
I think that was the whole reason for the “Armageddon Purse” … though I’ve never heard anything particularly good besides about off the body carry.
Why would any gun owner who carries a weapon for self defense want to “advertise”? I have a window around the corner from my front door which makes it easy to see who’s there. If I don’t know the person, I ask what there business is, and if I’m not positive they are there for legitimate reasons, I put my hand in my pocket and wrap my fingers around the small revolver that is there 24/7.
When I open the door, I am standing off to the side a bit, so that in case the door is pushed in violently, I will not be knocked to the floor.
Uh, no.
Seems like 2005 or 6 I came across an excellent book on Mexicos history and culture, with the theme being that we in the US simply dont know what we dont know- about our next door neighbor.
It wasnt political, just an excellent overview of history and culture showing how deep and complex and contrary were the realities, to our perceptions, and casual explanations of history, from public schools, etc. The control by a wealthy oligarchy, corruption, the “show” around elections in particular the domination by the PRI, to name just a couple on the political side. I had to agree I thought I knew more than the average person, having been a more long-time reader, doing some work in central america, diving in yucatan, campinng in baja, and living in San Diego for twenty years. But, after the first chapter I had to agree I knew nothing relatively speaking, and the complexity was really interesting.
But, back to the point of TTAG- I’m interested in how Robert returns to this topic, citing Blogo De Narco, and while scanning Amazon for some way to find this older book, I was struck by how many new books on the drug war and the border are new, and highly rated, and the message is very serious.
Yet, we dont get much info on this from the StateRunMedia- warmed over 90% of guns from LGS lies, when anniversaries of Brian Terry, or some reference to DOJ stonewalling on F&F, as if thats all there is.
Its pretty chilling, actually, when you read deeper. And not just for the border states, or for the desperate civilians inside Mexico, but what it means for America. One could say this is a story about how disarmament of citizens plays out, when things get ugly enough, and its survival or else.
Looking forward to more – funny how the zeitgeist on guns leads to so many other interesting issues. Its as if man’s freedom to defend one’s self, is a univeral right or something. Hmmm.
“Shebang?” Whoever gave it that name must have been a fan of William Hung from American Idol.
One group in opposition to the ‘replica firearms bill’ is the Maine ACLU. Maybe it will catch on.
Shite!
Wonder if Parker was just planning to get inside to rob/murder, or if he really was being chased and decided to grab a convenient firearm?
Either way, what a turd. Hope they use him to fill a pothole while he’s still kicking.
God Bless Texas.
Wow. Rented gun suicide, eh? Reduces the cost of offing oneself, and buying three boxes of pills defers any suspicion. Wow.
Skynet running a systems check? Melikes.
Somebody should archive this, so that WHEN a post office shooting occurs these brave, wise, Moms across the country can harken back to their victory speech…
Almost everytime I go to the local gun show I come across a Cobray M11 frankencarbinesharpedgedbarrelcoolerwearing abomination. The last two times I went I saw a couple with and M4 stock…. With some saggy pants wearing fools salivating over them. Something like this… http://usmachinegun.com/prodimages/a%20Mini%20stock2%20002.jpg
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There is alot more of us than them. What’s even more encouraging and has the anti’s tearing their hair out is a growing amount of people changing their minds about firearms and exercising their rights.
Maybe someone should tell MDA that USPS carry is already allowed in Colorado.
Incorrect. You are only allowed to leave the gun (and any extra ammo) in the car.
Which I do take advantage of.
I loved my mom, don’t get me wrong. I lost her to cancer in 1991 at the age of 19 I was. and yes I was a mama’s boy. but these women are far from being moms, in fact more like tyrants, pawns if you will. totally ignorant about firearms. I love the fact that they include gang bangers in their count as children that are killed every year buy firearms. criminals with guns, that just happened to be under the age of 18, doesn’t make these harden criminals children. these aren’t kids that found at her moms gun in accidentally shot themselves or a friend. These are people that go out with firearms that intend to hurt kill or murder people! these people are a very very very small percentage of the total populace. Which brings us all back to the point thatif you go after the small percentages of kids and adults that commit violent crime with firearms, instead of going after the entire populous of law abiding citizens that are gonna owners you could actually make a dent in the problem! Real moms would make educated decisions not stupid ones!
Yeah Shannon T Watts, it was your efforts that ‘saved the day’, not plain old inertia.
It’s not called the “silent majority” for nothing. Although, it seems many are no longer remaining “silent.”
quality of their rifles aside (since i have no firsthand knowledge), the biggest problem i see is that you can only get the barrel with the (described as such on the website) muzzle brake on the model that comes with the adjustable stock. If that’s truly a threaded barrel and not a welded on muzzle brake, then it would be nice to have that option on the fixed stock.
Join the American Federation of Teachers. They’re running the asylum.
Bring back the AR-180b.
The manufacturers are shooting themselves in the foot if they start producing new types of revolvers for the state, because then the courts may just say that due to the fact that people can buy revolvers, the microstamping law leading to the discontinued production or greatly reduced production of semiautomatic handguns is not an infringement on people’s right to keep and bear arms.