Concealed carry to gun shop for repair

[jethrodull]

If you conceal carry into the gun shop in order to have your handgun serviced, how do you get the gun out of the carry holster without it being "brandished"? Do you have to carry it into the store in a locked box? Thanks,
J

[TX_CHL]

I would carry it in the case it came in. Theres no reason to carry it in a holster to have it serviced.

[The_Outlaw]

If you conceal carry into the gun shop in order to have your handgun serviced, how do you get the gun out of the carry holster without it being "brandished"? Do you have to carry it into the store in a locked box? Thanks,
J

Don't you have more than one sidearm that you can conceal carry?
If so, conceal carry the other sidearm and bring the one that needs to be serviced 'unloaded' in a lock box.
If not, then you should probably call the gun shop ahead of time, get a name and ask them what they would prefer you to do.

[jethrodull]

good point Outlaw...I do have nother, but not a holster for it! Guess I need to buy one of those.
J

[Phillip Gain]

If your gun is in need of repair, you probably should not be carrying it.

The whole point of carrying the firearm is that it is in a condition that allows it to be reliably fired in order to save your life when you're out of options. If it's broken, it does NOT meet this requirement.

[CapGun]

If your gun is in need of repair, you probably should not be carrying it.

The whole point of carrying the firearm is that it is in a condition that allows it to be reliably fired in order to save your life when you're out of options. If it's broken, it does NOT meet this requirement.

Damn! I couldn't see the forest for the trees! I was going to say or ask why you would carry a loaded gun into a gun store to get serviced when you would have to remove it from your holster and make it safe= unload it, This would be unnecessary handling, that's when bad things could happen.
I was going to say carry another gun and bring the gun you want work on in the original or another box. If you don't have another gun, then you'll just have to go naked that day which you would end up doing anyway with the likely event it wouldn't be serviced right then and there. Well this makes sense if there was nothing wrong with the gun and say you just wanted new sights.
Phil, you make the obvious point and I looked passed it.
Nice call! Don't carry a gun for protection that doesn't work properly!

[father-of-three]

Yeah, it would be best to carry another gun and keep the "troubled" one in the box. It takes a lot of the guesswork out of the situation.

[SGB]

Redundancy can be your friend.

[crb]

I frequent a small gun shop so I would just carry it in with the slide locked back assuming its a semi auto. Revolver I would have the cylinder out. Just the way I do things. My gun shop knows me very well.

[Firefighterchen]

Agree with outlaw, Phil, and cap.

1 The best thing you could do is call and ask.

2 If the gun is being serviced for reliability/for safety/or because its broken, you should not be carrying it in the first place.

3 If the service is an upgrade (sights, trigger enhancement, mag well etc) refer to advice number 1.