Podcast 294 Giving Yourself Away as a Gun Carrier

The Top 10 ways you give yourself away while carrying a gun

Today: A Dave Letterman style Top 10 ways you are giving yourself away as a gun carrier.

We all do most of these and we all can work on it.  Some of these you are doing without knowing it.

The important part about carrying your gun is have your gun.  The best way to have it concealed is just to have it concealed.  The more you worry about it, the more you will have a tell.

Here is the Top 10 List:

#10 – You always seem to forget the bottom button on your shirt
#9 – That “clunking” sound you make every time you sit down
#8 – You have bulges everywhere except where they should be
#7 – That right side sage
#6 – Always pulling up your pants, like you have something heavy in there
#5 – Holding 15 shopping bags in your left hand and nothing in your right
#4 – You keep touching yourself for no apparent reason
#3 – After you touch yourself, you pull down your shirt
#2 – That come and take it shirt and bumper sticker you point out to everyone
#1 – You left the butt of your gun sticking out

Some of them are just funny, some of them are good tactics, but all of them show you carry a gun.

Some of them you may need to change.  Some of them, you may want to keep and not worry about.  Some of them you will want to stop doing.

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1 – Something is sticking out

• Magazines
• Gun
• Other Gear
• It happens

2 – Gun clothing, stickers, and gear

• T-shirts
• 5.11 Tactical Clothing
• Black Polished Boots
• Hats
• Bumper Stickers
• Signs in your yard

3 – Pulling down your shirt

• We do it all the time
• On one side
• And not enough sometimes
• Manly we do it at inappropriate times

4 – Touching yourself

• Looking for the gun
• Adjusting the gun
• Hiding the gun

5 – Holding everything in on hand

• 1^st thing I was taught about carrying a gun
• Cops do it all the time
• Trained myself to do it
• Then trained myself not to do it
• Trained myself to drop stuff

6 – Pulling up your pants

• Every time you stand
• Every time you move
• Like Buford T. Justice when you get out of the car (Smokey and the Bandit)

7 – Sagging on one side

• Not a good belt
• Unprofessional
• Only Carrying a gun and nothing else
• Gang Banger

8 – Bulges Everywhere

• This is me
• No one pays attention
• It’s only noticeable when we try and hide it

9 – Clunking against things

• Sitting at restaurants
•  Clinking against people
  • Hugging
  • Bumping into people

10 – Wearing clothes differently than the area or style

• Couple buttons undone
• Open shirt
• Untucked shirt
• Hawaiian print shirt in Texas

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Stay Safe,

Ben

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