Wouldn't It Be Great

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EdInk

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I was just thinking wouldn't it be great if wearing a gun belt came back instyle.
We could all just carry our guns on our strongside hip out in the open like the cowboys did in the movies. (I already know that wasn't the way they did it for real back in the old towns, so don't mention it.)

It would be great to see a resurgence of handsome well made leather holsters and handguns. Maybe the music community with their heavy influence on fashion could help make this happen. Let's send Snoop Dogg a Louis Vuitton print holster or something. We could give Shakira a small of the back rig, so when she dances everyone sees it.

Anyway, I think it would be great to be able to open carry a nice looking gun in a classy (not like the one mentioned above, that's just to get the ball rolling) well made holster on a stylish gun belt.

Thoughts?
 
I thought they had come back into style, what with cowboy action shooting. The last incarnation of that was in the latter part of the 1950s when westerns were all the rage on television. In fact, I'd even go so far to say that the so-called modern technique of the pistol has some ancestry in the sports that grew up around old west style gunslinging. That's how Jeff Cooper got his start.

It was the B-Western movie stars that really got the flashy style started in the late 1930s and into the 1940s. The style came to be quite personal and only a couple of the TV cowboys had really personal styled guns and holsters. All of this seems to have been heavily influenced by Mexican styles. Some of the early western movie stars and not a few of the latter ones were real cowboys or wranglers, starting out in the movies helping to manage all the livestock in the movies.
 
I've been doing my part,,,

I make nice rigs for all of my handguns,,,
Just so I can look good at the range.

My range is one of the outdoor type with no range master on duty,,,
Members go through a safety orientation,,,
and are then on their own.

They used to have a silly "No Holster" rule,,,
I call it silly, they call it safety.

Anyways, enough members complained loudly and oftenly
(I know it's not really a word),,,
that the ruling body,,,
abolished it.

You had to leave your fiery arm on the table when you went downrange,,,
I understand this when you have a monitored range,,,
But not in a "festival shooting" range like ours.

It took someone almost getting a handgun stolen when they were replacing a target to get the ruling body to relent on the rule.

So now, when I go to the range I sport fine leather,,,
and strut like a middle-aged gunslinging peacock.

~chuckling~

Aarond
 
(I already know that wasn't the way they did it for real back in the old towns, so don't mention it.)
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But they did, they just didn't use those long drop buscadero rigs.

I always pack my sixguns in fine, classy leather! I just don't wear them to town in such rigs.
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Heh. I live 20 miles from Tombstone; I see guys in full cowboy regalia, including gun belts, at Walmart & the grocery store several times a year. ;)
 
Hello SVAZ

Is open carry legal in Arizona?

I hear so many stories that it will be good to hear from an actual Arizona citizen.

Aarond
 
Absolutely.
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FrankenMauser is 100% correct. Not only that but in public buildings where carry is not permitted (library, police stations, etc.), the city must provide a locker inside the premises for you to secure your carry - beats the heck out of leaving it in the car to get stolen or defenselessly walking to your car at night.
 
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