concealed carry of glock chambered

Do you carry your CONCEALED Glock chambered or unchambered

  • Chambered in a holster

    Votes: 124 85.5%

  • Unchambered in a holster

    Votes: 13 9.0%

  • Chambered and loose (purse/pocket/case/pack)

    Votes: 5 3.4%

  • Unchambered and loose (purse/pocket/case/pack)

    Votes: 3 2.1%
  • Total voters
    145
  • Poll closed .
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forby

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For those of you carring a glock concealed, do you carry chambered or unchambered? I'm somewhat afraid of the answer. I come from an H&K P7 which has a forestrap grip saftey requiring about 10lbs of pull to cock the gun. This gun is always carried chambered. I just bought a G36 I'm not quite sure if I feel good about carrying chambered.
 
I remember reading a few years back in the Toronto Star
about an ongoing gang war in the city. The latest casualty
was a gentleman working for the Chinese Triads who had a
propensity for carrying a Glock tucked into his waistband,
unholstered, and who had once had an accidental discharge.

The paper stated the man's street-name as "No Wang".

You can't make this stuff up.

Use a holster, and play safe.

MikeCAN.
 
I really think if your not comfortable with carrying a Glock with round chambered in a quality holster that covers the trigger guard, then you flat out need to pick a different gun.
 
Definitely a firearm to keep in a holster.
Carrying a Glock loaded seems to be like carrying a Beretta cocked with one in the chamber. Each has a drop safety and trigger safety. A trigger safety sounds like no safety at all to me.
 
i don't have a Glock, but my HS2000 is another one of those, "point and click" guns, similar to the Glock with the addition of a grip non-intrusive grip safety.

always chambered, in a bladetech holster that covers the trigger guard.

If you don't carry w/one in the pipe, it'd be good to train in racking the slide one handed. It'd be good for everybody actually.
 
I really think if your not comfortable with carrying a Glock with round chambered in a quality holster that covers the trigger guard, then you flat out need to pick a different gun.
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Exactly.
The proper way to carry a handgun is one in the chamber. If you are not comfortable carrying a Glock (or any handgun) chambered then you’re wasting your hard earn money. Buy a handgun that you feel comfortable with a round in it.
 
Round chambered, carried right above my wallet inside the belt in a nice leather holster from Backwoods Leather in Portsmouth, VA.

It makes no sense to me to tote it any other way.

If you're uncomfortable with the idea, then go a different direction.
 
I remember having a conversation with a local police officer regarding her department's choice of the Glock. When complaining about the large grip I asked her why she doesn't go with a 1911, and the response was the department won't allow guns that must be left cocked at the ready. I tried to explain that the Glock is also such a weapon, but politics is politics I guess.
 
Chambered, in a holster. The cocking cycle is not completed until the trigger is pulled all the way through.

If carrying a Glock with one in the chamber (as it should be carried) bothers you greatly, carry the gun around the house unloaded, but with a set trigger for a week or so. Check periodically to see if the trigger has gone into the uncocked position. It will greatly enhance your faith in the Glock system if you carry a Glock (unloaded) Mexican-style around the ranch for a week and then find that it didn't go "click" after all.

(Actually, the proper term for a Glock dry-firing is "spoink". :D )
 
automainea:

"unloaded, left at home"
Yeah,that's a good way to have your CCW.:rolleyes:


forby:
Buy some snap caps.
Load your Glock(with the snap caps;) ) and holster and unholster it a bunch.
I had read alot of post about AD's and ND's with Glocks, that made me nervous about carrying a Glock as my CCW.
So, I loaded my G26 with a snap cap and mishandled it.

I'm very carefull holstering any handgun,but I'm comfortable carrying my G26 now.
 
Thanks for the responses so far. I've been carrying my g36 around for a fewq days with no round in the chamber without a single "sploink". I guess the old saying is true. "If you don't pull the trigger the darn thing won't go off."

Keep the opinions comming.

PS: I personally would not carry a loaded gun in my waistband unless it had a "decocker" and a safety set to on. No pun intended!:D
 
Well, there is not much the gun is good for if you have to wrestle with someone, or just trying to keep him away from you with one hand - how do you manage to cock your G 36 then? OK, you can smash the guy with it, but would not be piece of metal deliver the same "performance" then? :) Choose whatever gun you feel comfortable and safe with having chambered round for your carry. Be safe
 
Having three mechanical safeties, the Glock is perfectly safe to carry chambered, as long as it's in a holster that covers the trigger guard. The gun will not fire unless the trigger is pulled, but if it's not holstered properly, there are all sorts of things that can inadvertently pull the trigger.

I would never carry a Glock, or any other gun "Mexican style" - just stuffed in my waistband. I don't want to suffer the same fate as No Wang. <snicker>
 
At home, unchambered, in the gun safe as I live in the land of Wisconsin, one of the few states where a citizen can't even apply for concealed carry!:mad:
 
If you don't have the mindset to carry a chambered gun then you have no buisness carring a gun. An empty gun will get you killed a unchambered pistol is an empty gun.
PAT
 
I carry my G19 in a DeSantis IWB clip-on holster. The holster covers the trigger guard completely. I alkso use a trigger block which keeps the trigger from being pulled, but can be pushed out easily with the trigger finger.
 
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