Conceal Carry non-disasterous mishaps.

"Shouldn't have bothered no metal detector or anything in the building." :eek:

While true - if they caught you with it there, you could lose your CC license. In most states, government buildings are off limits to CCWs.
 
I was sitting at a bar one day, talking to a new found friend. I was carrying a GI 1911 Mexican style in the waistband of my suit. I leaned over the bar to light the cigarette of my newly found friend, gentleman that I am. When I leaned over, my .45 leviated itself out of my waist band and went skittering along the tile floor and landed under a booth's table.

Sitting in the booth having lunch were two uniformed cops in their 50s. I reached under the table to retrieve my piece when one of them stomps down on my hand and says "who the f*%k are you". I replied, "number 9, number 9(my precinct assignment)". He said "show me some tin As&h&%e". I fumbled with my creds case and gave him my badge and picture ID. Looking into his eyes, you could see the two blackest holes in the universe. It was chilling.

He took his #13 boot off my hand and said "rookie boy" this is my lunch place, keep the F&$k outta here in the future. He threw the creds case on the floor.

I scooped up my badge, re-mexed the piece, got my cigarettes and lighter off the bar and went out in search of my own place.

The next day I started carrying my department approved piece in an approved holster WITH retention strap.
 
This was about three months after the 9/11 attacks. I'm LE and was flying armed. Get to the destination airport after a terrible cross country flight with all kinds of delays.
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This reminds me of something I did. Although it was not a concealed carry mishap, it is somewhat along the same lines.

Less than a month after 9/11, I had to travel to Orlando. The planes were still not flying so I had to drive. We were still so concerned about attacks that instead of driving my government vehicle, I drove my own and was paid mileage. It was a long two day drive.

Anyway one evening after eating supper at a restaurant, as I was paying with my government travel card, the female clerk asked me what branch of the government I worked for. I looked at her and said, "I am sorry Miss, but if I tell you that I will have to kill you." Her eyes got big as saucers and she backed up as far as she could in her cubicle around the cash register which was only one step. She ran my card without saying another word and handed it back to me. When I left she still hadn't said anything to me.
 
The other time, I had been doing spme dry-fire practice with my SP-101. I had the gun loaded with snap-caps and spent 30 minutes or so practicing, got done, put the gun away and went to bed. Next morning, I got up, put the gun back in it's holster and went about my business. 3-4 days later, I got ready to do some dry-fire practice again, so I unloaded the gun and got a big shock when I saw 5 snap-caps still sitting in the cylinder!
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This is one reason I really don't like the idea of using snap caps for dry firing practice. I'm not going to get into a debate about whether it is safe to dry fire without them. None of my handguns and rifles can be damaged by dry firing. Even my Ruger 10/22 can be dry-fired. But anyway, when you dry fire, you HAVE to make darn sure that the gun is unloaded. when you have some extra weight, and see casings in the gun, you just don't always know it is unloaded. That's how mishaps can happen. You re-load with live ammo, then the doorbell rings. After you pay the pizza delivery man (former investment banker) you go back to the gun and want to squeeze of one last "dry" round before you enjoy your pizza in front of the TV watching Suze Orman give advise to former investment bankers about how to pay their mortgage by getting a job as a pizza delivery man. Anyway, you pull the trigger and BOOM. Geez, I thought it was snap caps!

Or, you conceal carry a gun full of snap caps, as in the part quoted above.

Anyway, makes me wonder if snap caps are such a ghreat thing after all.
 
During breakfast at a restaurant in Hot Springs Arkansas, nature called. Upon completion of the required paperwork, I exited the restroom and was halfway through the dining room when I realized I'd stowed my cellphone in my coat pocket and was carrying my Kahr P9 in my hand. I spun around and re-entered the men's room and switched them out.

Of the dozens of folks there, I did not see a reaction from one!
 
Almost Embarrassed

Several years ago I drove to Walmart. When I arrived, I slid my Sig 2340 into my IWB holster (a little awkward while sitting in the front seat. I thought I had the holster clipped over the waistband and under my belt. I pulled my shirttail down and walked into the store. But as I entered, I realized that my holster and gun were slipping: the holster was not clipped onto my waistband!

The store was crowded that evening. I decided to go to the restrooms at the back of the store to adjust the gun, thinking the front restrooms would be more crowded. As I walked to the back of the store, I felt the gun and holster slipping lower and lower! I made it to the restroom at the back of Walmart just in time - the gun was about to drop out of my waistband! But then I noticed that the restroom was closed for cleaning!

I began to work my way back to the front of the store while trying to hold my gun against my back. I decided it would be better to cut through the clothing section than to walk down the main aisle. That turned out to be a prudent decision! As I walked through the men's clothing section, the gun slipped from my waiste and down into the crotch of my shorts! If I kept walking, my gun would fall down my pant's leg and fall on the floor.

I froze. I realized I had two choices. I could reach down and hold my gun in the crotch of my shorts and continue walking to the bathroom. But the prospect of holding a "load" down in the crotch of my shorts looked pretty bad. Or I could unbutton my shorts, reach down my shorts, pull the gun out, and clamp it in place with my belt until I reached the bathroom. The prospect of some child seeing me with my shorts unbottoned and my hand down the front of my shorts while standing in the middle of the store made me a little uncomfortable as well.

I carefully slid sideways to a shelf of jeans and cautiously rolled a movable rack of shirts beside me. Trying not to look suspicious, I quickly undid my belt, unbuttoned my shorts, reached down and retrieved my gun. I slid it back in place and got my shorts resituated. Then I hurried to the restroom and found a stall at the back. Some painful-sounding grunting noises kept the next stall clear until I had firmly clamped my holster over my shorts and tightened my waistband. Then I exited, quickly found what I needed, and left. Soon after that, I bought a Kahr MK40 and a better holster!
 
This was yesterday. I had plans to take lunch at the academy and shoot with my partner. While in locker room before work I was setting up my range bag and guns. I grabbed the Detonics and cleared it as I do every gun I put my paws on and out flies a round. ALWAYS , ALWAYS CLEAR WEAPONS YOU TAKE CONTROL OF

I don't remember leaving a round in the chamber. This was going to be it's inaugural trip to the range
 
As I pulled her back against me, her head bumped the butt of my pistol so she screams out in her best p.o.'d 3 year old voice, "Daddy! You just hit me in the head with your GUN!!!"
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I fear that's going to happen to me in another year or so!:o
 
While searching for cash to pay my FFL dealer I unthinkingly pulled out my 442 and it's pocket holster to look for that last dollar I knew I had somewhere ( I needed exact change to pay a transfer fee ). I never carry anything but a gun in that pocket so I should have known better but I was like " I know I have a few bucks here somewhere". Of course he didn't care but it still was a bonehead move and I felt like an idiot.
 
I was in an Old Navy with my kids, 6 and 4 years old. I was trying on some blue jeans and had them in the dressing room with me. My 6 year old sees my carry piece sitting on the bench and shouts "Hey dad! You brought your gun?" No one heard him thankfully, but I did have a little talk with him once we got to the car.
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Gotta love kids. My soon to be step-daughter (she's 5) asks quiet frequently "do-do-do-do you have your gun with you?" (yeah, she stutters). Usually not in public, but it has happened. I haven't really had "the talk" with her because she doesn't really say too much in front of strangers in public. If she talks it's not really near enough to anyone else that they could hear (although she doesn't really know what an inside voice is). This girl is a trip, though. Probably about time to have that talk...
 
Conceal Carry non-disasterous mishap:
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I was in the public restroom somewhere (I honestly forget where). I carry an SP101 strongside IWB. I was using the urinal and was wearing an untucked polo shirt, which I hitch up over my belly as I urinate. I was all alone and, as I finished, I simultaneously turned around and buttoned up.

Just then, another guy walks in while my polo shirt was still up. His eyes go directly to my gun, which rides fairly high. I quickly pulled my shirt down and walked directly out of the restroom, rather than hang around to wash up. I didn't want to stick around to see if he was alarmed enough to call the cops. I left the place and never heard a thing.

Concealed carry is common and well-known here in Texas, so he probably just figured that I had my CHL.
 
I'm out with a number of friends, who, sadly are very anti-gun. A female friend comes up and "punches" me in the ribs squarely hitting my XD45/Supertuck. She asks what she hit and I shrug it off by saying "my rock hard abs" (shut up, it's the best I had) she then giggles and says "ooo let me see" and jerks my shirt up exposing my gun to all of my then very shocked and now disgusted friends. Did I mention we were in the middle of a VERY crowded car show? :eek:

It wasn't a nice clean, oops, lemme hide that. Nope, she pulled my shirt WAY up, and then stood there with eyes wide looking at the gun. (definitely not my jello-like abs) Almost everyone else began to give me the twenty questions and typical anti-gun rhetoric. The single redeeming quality is that she shoots competitively, and understood why I carried and what had just happened. We went shooting later on in the week and she paid for the range time as an apology.

The "friends" don't have much to say to me these days.
 
The worse part about trying to Conceal guns is Hugs. I have been made numerous times by Women that put their arms around me. I had some to be startled, and some to hug me a second time to be sure of what they thought they felt, but never had a complaint.
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LOL, I have always carried IWB (04:00) and occassionally someone at the office would bump into me, those who did not know me well (and therefore did not know that I armed) would often end up rubbing an elbow and giving me a strange look as it dawns on them what they have bumped into.:eek:

Since it's perfectly acceptable to carry here (you need a license for each firearm though) it never became an issue.

Brgds,
Danny
 
Dannyl said:
The worse part about trying to Conceal guns is Hugs. I have been made numerous times by Women that put their arms around me. I had some to be startled, and some to hug me a second time to be sure of what they thought they felt, but never had a complaint.
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LOL, I have always carried IWB (04:00) and occassionally someone at the office would bump into me, those who did not know me well (and therefore did not know that I armed) would often end up rubbing an elbow and giving me a strange look as it dawns on them what they have bumped into.

Since it's perfectly acceptable to carry here (you need a license for each firearm though) it never became an issue.

Brgds,
Danny
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Ha, you said it. Most women I know/meet tend to go for the hug. I usually try to keep my right-arm lower, over my 3-4:00 IWB carry, so that they go higher and never notice it. Doesn't always work, though, and I have gotten a few puzzled looks a few questions over it. I usually just tell them its my cell phone clipped on my belt (which I never do, and some know). If they push the issue, I tell them its a catheter collector for that surgery I just had. That usually shuts them up in a hurry. ;)
 
she then giggles and says "ooo let me see" and jerks my shirt up exposing my gun to all of my then very shocked and now disgusted friends. Did I mention we were in the middle of a VERY crowded car show?

It wasn't a nice clean, oops, lemme hide that. Nope, she pulled my shirt WAY up, and then stood there with eyes wide looking at the gun. (definitely not my jello-like abs) Almost everyone else began to give me the twenty questions and typical anti-gun rhetoric.
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Well, with that exposure, you could have just tucked the shirt behind the gun and switched to open carry mode :) "How do you like me now?!" Since that's legal in most of Kentucky (and all of Ohio).

OTOH, you could have created a distraction by returning the favor: pulling her shirt up just as high! :D Fair's fair, isn't it? :rolleyes:

Ken
 
OTOH, you could have created a distraction by returning the favor: pulling her shirt up just as high
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I've known the girl forever and she probably wouldn't have cared. She doesn't wear supportive clothing, if you know what I mean, so everyone would have probably have forgotten all about the gun. :eek:

Well, with that exposure, you could have just tucked the shirt behind the gun and switched to open carry mode "How do you like me now?!" Since that's legal in most of Kentucky (and all of Ohio).
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I could have, but I don't like open carry, I feel like a target when I open carry.:(
 
I've known the girl forever and she probably wouldn't have cared. She doesn't wear supportive clothing, if you know what I mean, so everyone would have probably have forgotten all about the gun.:eek:
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There you go! Create a diversion! :)
 
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