Carrying A Gun Without A Round Chambered

This is a quick video response to Mr5point56's video about carrying a gun without a round in the chamber. This video illustrates why I feel it is a bad idea. I will deal solely with circumstances where both hands are available and other factors such as cover garments do not hinder your access. This will demonstrate how problems arise from carrying a gun in this manner under even the best of circumstances.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• concealed carry
• colt
• kahr
• smith
• wesson
• .357mag
• draw
• chamber
• rack
• slide
• shooting
• self defense
• CCW
• tactical

[IIDASHII]

Not that you need the affirmation, but this physicist sees it just as you do. ;) When one's life is at stake, EVERY single variable that can be eliminated SHOULD be eliminated. With the safety features of modern pistols, I don't even see how an argument for carrying without a round chambered still has much support. It is asking for trouble. 

[TheYankeeMarshal]

@IIDASHII The reason is fear. People are afraid of their guns. They are so ingrained with the irrational fear that guns are so dangerous that they fear them even when they are no threat. A gun left laying on a table with the hammer cocked and the safety off will never fire, but people would still be afraid to walk in front of it.

[bullss21]

I conceal carry, use a double action revolver, I keep five rounds and leave the hammer on the empty. All I have to do is draw and pull the trigger. Having a round in the chamber relies on a drop safety if you drop it, and a lot of other mechanical safeties. The most important safety is between your ears. You cannot safely carry a gun with a round in the chamber, I don't care what kind of guarantee the factory gives about foolproof safeties - any mechanical safety is NOT FOOLPROOF.

[TheYankeeMarshal]

@bullss21 I try never to throw this around lightly, but you sir (with all due respect) are a dumbass. Either that or a troll. The VAAASSSST majority of (in fact almost all) ND's are from pulling the trigger. Therefore you have no improved your safety at all. You have just reduced your firepower. The transfer bar on a revolver is not going to allow it to fire without the trigger pulled. The part of the gun that is not fool proof 8is the trigger and the person that pulls it is the fool.

[HYBRIDCOMBATIVES]

Everybody go flame RaylinGivens dumb ass Condition three video. He is a ridiculous clownshoe that needs to be adjusted.

[ZyonFyre]

I agree that carrying with a round in the chamber is smart as long as you have a safety on your weapon and your gun is in a holster with the trigger covered. Some of these little .380 autos with no safety that people carry loaded in a jumble in their messy purse or in a tight hard to extract pant pocket just doesn't seem smart to me. The idea of concealed carry is to have a weapon to save your life not a tool in your pocket to end it,...or worse.

[livebyreason]

I see the biggest problem as the occupation of another hand. A hand that could be serving another vital purpose...

[Nebulax123]

@HYBRIDCOMBATIVES Being prepared is never wrong. I consider myself prepared with what I carry and you consider yourself prepared with what you carry. If I run out of ammo it will be bad for me, if your gun jams and you can't clear it all the reloads in the world won't help. We will have to agree to disagree on this one. I sincerely hope neither of us has to ever find out.

[HYBRIDCOMBATIVES]

@bullss21 the safety was pointing the weapon in a safe direction and knowing what your target is and what is beyond it. Rule number 2 and rule number 4. Read them.

[HYBRIDCOMBATIVES]

@Nebulax123 odds mean NOTHING when it happens to you. Combat is combat whether it is in your bedroom against an invader at 3 am, a couple of gang assholes in a walmart parking lot. Defending your life is defending your life. I dont play odds. Preparation beats odds all day long.

[sabretooth75]

@TheYankeeMarshal It took me four years to overcome my fear of Glocks. I finally reached the point where I felt comfortable in carrying one. However, while I look for the right holster for it, I'm practicing drawing it almost nightly. I carry condition one, because any other carry method will increase my chances of getting killed or being seriously injured due to the reasons you stated. Good video!

[Nebulax123]

@HYBRIDCOMBATIVES Again I will say if I am looking at Military style combat sure give me a semi auto and all the mags I can carry. The odds of you facing that as a civilian are probably less than getting struck by lightning. I live in a not great part of Atlanta and have heard lots of gun fire and none of it went over a few shots from both shooters. After 61 years I believe in a revolver because they have never failed me and semi autos have more than once failed to fire.

[ZombieMasterEd25]

wether im carrying the PX4 subcompact or the Tomcat i always carry 1 in the chamber but then again thes 2 beretta's have actule saftys, the tomcat safty is a 1911 style so i can keep the hammer full cocked & put the safty on or just keep it down with the safty off. the PX4 subcompact safty is like the 92fs doubles as a decocker if the hammer if fully cocked i can drop the hammer with the safty nd no discharge will happen. this comment sounds soo gay LMFAO!

[bullss21]

@HYBRIDCOMBATIVES I'm not blaming a safety for anything, my revolver does not have one. I'm stating that a person should not fully rely on it. The best safety is proper training, mindset, and will. I used to carry a loaded P38 that had a hard first DA. Went to a wheel gun as a personal preference. Grew up around guns, and was told not to have a round in the chamber until you were ready to fire. But this was when not every gun out there made was drop safe like it is today.

[HYBRIDCOMBATIVES]

@bullss21 Would that be the same head that prevents your finger from being placed on the the trigger until your are ready to fire? I have been shooting,and teaching for over 20 years including military service and have never seen a "safety" fail. I have however seen people put their finger on the trigger and cause a negligent discharge. Blaming the "safety" is a crutch for improper discipline and training.