Pistol mount
#651
Senior Member
Here is how I mounted mine. Bought a kydex holster, drilled a couple holes and secured with nuts and bolts. Easily accecssible if I ever need it, easy in and out of my holsters, and with me in the driver seat its about 95% hidden to anyone. You have to stick your head inside of the driver window and look down to see it.
#652
Senior Member
I find it rather amusing reading posts like these. I’ve been a LEO for 8 years now and I not often needed my firearm. Never shot it other than training. And I run towards the danger every shift.
How many people really need a hand gun or should have a hand gun. I rarely ever hear of someone needing a gun and using it properly when something happens. Usually its just the opposite.
Anyhow rant over. Good luck!
How many people really need a hand gun or should have a hand gun. I rarely ever hear of someone needing a gun and using it properly when something happens. Usually its just the opposite.
Anyhow rant over. Good luck!
from age 18 - 24 before the cell phone was popular i used to carry a pen in my pocket and rarely ever used, but you know what, in that instance that some hot girl forgot her glasses and found me attractive and wanted to give me her number.. in that moment .. i was ready
until the day you are personally attached to my hip.. i will keep carrying my gun where ever i legally can
furthermore some LEO's don't like carrying guns.. they only do because they are required to.. and i see them at the range.. i have better groupings than them.. and you know what.. when i need an LEO.. those are the last people i want keeping me safe
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#653
I find it rather amusing reading posts like these. I’ve been a LEO for 8 years now and I not often needed my firearm. Never shot it other than training. And I run towards the danger every shift.
How many people really need a hand gun or should have a hand gun. I rarely ever hear of someone needing a gun and using it properly when something happens. Usually its just the opposite.
Anyhow rant over. Good luck!
How many people really need a hand gun or should have a hand gun. I rarely ever hear of someone needing a gun and using it properly when something happens. Usually its just the opposite.
Anyhow rant over. Good luck!
Re "need a hand gun": This leads me to question if you really are a cop. Any real cop knows two things: Firearms are a force equalizer, taking physical size (and to a degree numbers) out of the equation when an attacker strikes. Second would be (and I'm sure you've given this speech too) that it isn't the job of the police to protect someone from an assault, only to investigate and arrest afterward. When the police start giving full escort upon request I'll be happy to stand down, but until then suggest you stick to supporting and protecting our constitutional rights rather than vocalizing opposition to them.
EDIT: And since we are talking about whether someone should have a "need" to exercise a constitutional right, I've rephrased a piece of what you said. "How many people really need to say what they believe or should be allowed to?" You see, once we allow people to start crapping on our rights, who gets to decide which ones get crapped on? Which brings us right back to the purpose of the 2nd amendment from the beginning.
Last edited by mikeinatlanta; 11-01-2018 at 07:23 AM.
#654
Senior Member
Watching local LEO at a nearby range on the Atlanta southside, I've often said that the safest place to be when the cops start shooting is in their sights. Their firearm handling is so bad I quit going to that range out of fear for my own safety.
Re "need a hand gun": This leads me to question if you really are a cop. Any real cop knows two things: Firearms are a force equalizer, taking physical size (and to a degree numbers) out of the equation when an attacker strikes. Second would be (and I'm sure you've given this speech too) that it isn't the job of the police to protect someone from an assault, only to investigate and arrest afterward. When the police start giving full escort upon request I'll be happy to stand down, but until then suggest you stick to supporting and protecting our constitutional rights rather than vocalizing opposition to them.
Re "need a hand gun": This leads me to question if you really are a cop. Any real cop knows two things: Firearms are a force equalizer, taking physical size (and to a degree numbers) out of the equation when an attacker strikes. Second would be (and I'm sure you've given this speech too) that it isn't the job of the police to protect someone from an assault, only to investigate and arrest afterward. When the police start giving full escort upon request I'll be happy to stand down, but until then suggest you stick to supporting and protecting our constitutional rights rather than vocalizing opposition to them.
#655
Senior Member
I find it rather amusing reading posts like these. I’ve been a LEO for 8 years now and I not often needed my firearm. Never shot it other than training. And I run towards the danger every shift.
How many people really need a hand gun or should have a hand gun. I rarely ever hear of someone needing a gun and using it properly when something happens. Usually its just the opposite.
Anyhow rant over. Good luck!
How many people really need a hand gun or should have a hand gun. I rarely ever hear of someone needing a gun and using it properly when something happens. Usually its just the opposite.
Anyhow rant over. Good luck!
#656
Having to shoot someone is such a small part of what an officer may encounter on the job, that most (not just a lot, but most....like 95%) police never have to shoot at anyone.
Why? Because they have training and other tools to use. You have your gun...so if someone scares you, you might just go ahead an shoot them because that is your only tool.
Police are trained to do many other things in different situations SO they DON'T have to shoot someone. Apples and oranges.
I'm glad they are better at negotiating and helping folks....rather than just show up and lay out a bunch of perfect head-shots...
Shot placement is easy when you are only being attacked by paper. I'm also an excellent shot when it comes to poking holes in paper.
#657
Senior Member
That is a very myopic attitude.
Having to shoot someone is such a small part of what an officer may encounter on the job, that most (not just a lot, but most....like 95%) police never have to shoot at anyone.
Why? Because they have training and other tools to use. You have your gun...so if someone scares you, you might just go ahead an shoot them because that is your only tool.
Police are trained to do many other things in different situations SO they DON'T have to shoot someone. Apples and oranges.
I'm glad they are better at negotiating and helping folks....rather than just show up and lay out a bunch of perfect head-shots...
Shot placement is easy when you are only being attacked by paper. I'm also an excellent shot when it comes to poking holes in paper.
Having to shoot someone is such a small part of what an officer may encounter on the job, that most (not just a lot, but most....like 95%) police never have to shoot at anyone.
Why? Because they have training and other tools to use. You have your gun...so if someone scares you, you might just go ahead an shoot them because that is your only tool.
Police are trained to do many other things in different situations SO they DON'T have to shoot someone. Apples and oranges.
I'm glad they are better at negotiating and helping folks....rather than just show up and lay out a bunch of perfect head-shots...
Shot placement is easy when you are only being attacked by paper. I'm also an excellent shot when it comes to poking holes in paper.
#658
Senior Member
I find it rather amusing reading posts like these. I’ve been a LEO for 8 years now and I not often needed my firearm. Never shot it other than training. And I run towards the danger every shift.
How many people really need a hand gun or should have a hand gun. I rarely ever hear of someone needing a gun and using it properly when something happens. Usually its just the opposite.
Anyhow rant over. Good luck!
How many people really need a hand gun or should have a hand gun. I rarely ever hear of someone needing a gun and using it properly when something happens. Usually its just the opposite.
Anyhow rant over. Good luck!
Oh, and I know how to use it as well. Just ask the steel gongs hanging across the lake outside my back door, they get "rung" often from the back porch after I drink my coffee.
Last edited by RandyinTN; 11-01-2018 at 10:15 AM.
#659
Senior Member
I'll add what works for me and maybe it will help someone. I always carry a snub nose stainless revolver in our vehicles. In my F150 it is a Ruger 5 shot .357 mag with a 2.25 inch barrel. It fits nicely inside a soft, thin neoprene holster than fits nicely inside the console. I like revolvers for the truck and the house due to the fact they are idiot proof and unlikely to jam. And my wife is more comfortable with them as well.
#660
I'll add what works for me and maybe it will help someone. I always carry a snub nose stainless revolver in our vehicles. In my F150 it is a Ruger 5 shot .357 mag with a 2.25 inch barrel. It fits nicely inside a soft, thin neoprene holster than fits nicely inside the console. I like revolvers for the truck and the house due to the fact they are idiot proof and unlikely to jam. And my wife is more comfortable with them as well.