I want to start this story off by saying that it is safe to say that the man in this incident was not legally carrying. North Carolina requires a concealed carry permit from North Carolina or any other state to carry concealed legally. North Carolina is not a Constitutional Carry state.
This past Saturday afternoon, shoppers were sent into a frenzy after hearing a gunshot at the SouthPark Mall in Charlotte, North Carolina. The shoppers didn’t know that this wasn’t an active shooter situation or any other type of gun violence.
A 22-year-old man was carrying a gun and had a negligent discharge. The bullet hit him in his upper leg. He was brought to the hospital and treated for his injuries. The police gave him a citation regarding the carrying of a concealed weapon but didn’t specify exactly what it was for.
As I mentioned, I’m pretty sure this man didn’t have a valid concealed carry permit. On Feb. 9, 2022, he was arrested for financial card theft and obtaining property under false pretense. But this is still a reminder that you should be carrying in a proper concealed carry holster.
What is a proper holster?
It needs to cover the trigger guard completely, hold the firearm securely and allow access to the firearm reliably.
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How do you know he didn’t have a proper holster? How do you know that, perhaps, that he didn’t catch his shirt-tail in the trigger as he holstered it causing it to go off at a later time as he stretched? Or that he wasn’t pocket carrying with a ‘proper’ pocket holster and the weapon slipped out and caught the trigger on the holster?
This is an example of why you should NEVER carry a concealed weapon cocked and loaded. And, yes, a ‘striker-fired’ weapon is cocked since it has some firing tension on the striker spring during normal carrying.
The kind of ‘holster’ accidents described above were almost unheard of during the era of double-action revolvers because those weapons were never carried with tension on the hammer spring. Ditto for sa/da autos. Such accidents were also very uncommon with 1911 pistols because they were usually carried openly in protected military-style holsters and, of course, usually had the safety on.
But, when striker-fired weapons with no manual safety began to be carried under clothing, accidental discharges became very common.
Why won”t you gun writers acknowledge that Glocks are just too dangerous for the average person to carry concealed because of their light trigger pulls when a round is chambered?