I second on your hip is best.

If you get in a crash, get yanked out of the truck or need it quickly then you know where it is as and you have more retention. Before everyone tries to tell me how full of crap I am, I am have been a professional firearms instructor for 10 years.

 

Would it not be easier/quicker to draw from dash/console when seated in truck? I think it might be more difficult to draw from hip when seated.

Not trying to start an argument, just my observations.

 

Possibly. But they way I've always looked at it is - If I am getting car jacked, I'm going to have to unbuckle my seat-belt to get out. I carry at 3:30-4 o'clock IWB, so it's right there next to my buckle. Surprise MF'er! Bang!

 

Sure, when you're outside the vehicle. But AFAIK, it's not legal anywhere for Joe Citizen to fire a gun from a moving vehicle no matter what. If he has time to stop, he has time to get his gun from wherever he keeps it. So the point isn't keeping it where you can have a quick-draw contest; the point is having somewhere to store it in the vehicle when you CAN'T get out with it, and you're not going to be so far away that it needs to be locked up. Like stepping into a 1-room post office to hand the clerk an oversize package while there's no one else around. Doors locked & pistol out-of-sight is good enough.As long as the gun is ANYWHERE that it doesn't come loose & hit me or go off, I don't see how a crash is relevant to the OP's question. At your last crash, did you crawl out of the wreckage shooting?Does that happen much where you drive? I just stay out of those places.If he puts it somewhere in his truck, then he knows where it is just as well as if he puts it somewhere on his person.Unless someone jumps into his truck, KNOWS where his gun is (and his hip would be the most-obvious place to grab first), and decides to fight him for it, I don't see that as being a realistic consideration. He's probably not going to be driving through Beirut, Fallusia, or the slums of Sao Paulo.Do you get out much?

Lighten up, Francis. It's 2019 - not 1881.

 

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I carry ALWAYS! IWB @ 7:00 ( I’m left handed but ambidextrous when it comes to firearms). If I’m wearing pants, you can bet money that I’m armed. I mounted this OWB holster for long trips. If I have to enter a “no carry” area such as a bank, school, whatever, my firearm can be in that holster and is out of sight, especially with my tinted glass.

 

Some nice holster ideas, I myself prefer the console. I also live in total suburbia and carry a Glock 43x or 42, neither great for much of a gun fight.

 

If you hit what you are aiming at, 7 bullets are more than enough.

 

I built a bracket to mount a serpa holster located under my right leg. Its bolted down with the seat frame bolt. Ill post a pic later

 

Depending on the person and the gun, we had a local story here a few weeks ago, dude got hit 18 times including 3 in the head and survived. It don't mention it in the story on this link but it was said it was a 9mm that was used.

https://www.theadvocate.com/new_orle...bfd32aa28.html
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