sultan62
Regular Member
I don't know what he carries, but if it's a 1911 or has a similar style thumb safety, it can be fairly easy to tell from several feet away.
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Awesome encounter at walmart
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Kloutier
Regular Member
I have an XDM there is no switch on mine. I wonder what they would have said to me. Sir do you know that your gun...is a gun?
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smlawrence
Regular Member
They might see our little white dot from a decent distance away...lol.
J_Oliver
Regular Member
Despite the horror stories I hear about people's LEO encounters while OC'ing, These are the stories that give me validation that all LEO's aren't out to get us. Thank you for sharing this AWESOME story with us. I'm still waiting to get my taxes back to get my firearm and rig.
Dreamer
Regular Member
Only if the 1911 has ambidextrous safeties, or is being carried left-handed...
A "standard" 1911 (and MOST handguns with the safety control on only one side) has the manual safety on the left side of the firearm, which would be against your body when in a right-hand holster--and therefore impossible to see...
My guess is that this "manager" didn't see the safety of this firearm at all--he saw the hammer was cocked, and was calling THAT "having a weapon on fire"...
And what about Glocks and DA revolvers? They are "on fire" all the time because they have no manual safety, and are essentially Double Action devices...
JoeSparky
Centurion
I made a jump of faith based on his screen name that he was actually IN THEATER (Bagdad) and his weapon was an M15 with the safety set to "FIRE." I could be wrong but.... LOL
razor_baghdad
Regular Member
92 fs
easily visible in the Serpa holster as the red shows when the weapon is in 'hot' status. A few of the checkers had IDed me to the manager....I saw him coming and was pleasantly surprised by his response. He nodded to me and to the checkers and continued on about his business.
Also, I carried this way my entire Army career...and am completely safe with the handling of the Beretta (double action with a slight spring cut trigger pull) AND the M4....
, although the M4 was always on safe...
3 years in the box were '04-'07.
easily visible in the Serpa holster as the red shows when the weapon is in 'hot' status. A few of the checkers had IDed me to the manager....I saw him coming and was pleasantly surprised by his response. He nodded to me and to the checkers and continued on about his business.
Also, I carried this way my entire Army career...and am completely safe with the handling of the Beretta (double action with a slight spring cut trigger pull) AND the M4....
, although the M4 was always on safe... 3 years in the box were '04-'07.
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