Would You Carry A Pocket Pistol?

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This 'prohib' business has got to go.

FFS - I went into the gun shop to stock up on supplies and noticed they had a 'Baby Browning' prohib for sale under the glass and it looked mint. It was in .22 or .25 and looked like one of those pistol-shaped novelty cigarette lighters they used to sell. It was so cool! I suppose it is just as well that they are prohibited because otherwise I would have bought it and wondered what in hell was wrong with my head afterwards! LOL!

I don't know what to make of these guns. If I thought I was going to seriously end up in the brown stuff, I would carry the biggest gun I could handle...but for every day casual carry? One of those would fit in your pants pocket or in your Carrhart vest and ya wouldn't even know it was there! A lot of the guns I see being carried by police and fish cops seem to have the stuffing beaten out of them and I can see it - the big guns are getting banged and clunked against everything their owners brush up against. There might be something to be said for the little pistols for use by ageing stubfarts like Yours Truly - or ladies of ill repute. :)

Would you carry a pocket gun on a casual basis?
 
I would carry a "mid size" gun, as in not as big as a 1911, and not as small as a .25 or .32. Like a compact 9mm, with a 3-4" barrel.
 
I would love to be able to carry my Colt .45 5.5 barrel in my low rise holster :) but if not that ,then I guess one of those pea shooters would suffice :)
 
I gave it some serious thought around the time of the parliament attack and figured I'd go for a Bond Arms in 45 Colt.

If you're too far away to get it done in 2 with a cannon like that, then you are far enough away to run/hide
 
If we were allowed to carry daily there would be no casual carry, I'd carry what I would likely depend on and that would be that. Probably a smaller glock or an m&p9 shield. Maybe even my tok, my tt-33 is bloody concealable and I like the 7.62x25 round. I know in the states there's hp ammo available in x25. I doubt we'll ever see that day but one can dream...
 
I never would have thought so until my last trip to North Carolina. Met a guy who carried a Roger LCP in .380. At first blush I thought it was a silly little toy but as this guy worked in an office all day in a shirt and tie, it was a great little gun for Pocket carry at the office and no one was the wiser.

I grew to kinda like it. Was pretty accurate at 25ft too...i'd carry one if I could.
 
I have a 12.7 Browning 1906, one of the so-called "pocket vest pistols". In the early 1900s it was commonplace for European gentlemen to carry these in their vests. No one had issues with it back then!!!

Though I'm normally a semi guy, I would probably lean towards a snubby S and W revolver in .357 for EDC.
 
I was playing with a display of the tiny Glocks the other day (pro show, they were not for sale). After so many years of shooting full sized handguns, I bet I'd have trouble hitting the ground with one, even from a kneeling position. But it would be fun practicing.
 
I wouldn't carry anything I had no use for and I have absolutely no use for a gun...

Watch, wallet, keys and phone. That's enough junk to cart around daily.
 
Oh yeah, if it was kosher to carry, I would positively have a pocket pistol or two in my collection. In the summertime when I am wearing light and minimal clothing, a pocket pistol would still be discreet, and honestly I wouldn't always want to wear a bulkier/heavier that goes with a larger pistol, so for lazy days, or when comfort is taking priority, a pocket pistol would be the way to go!
What is it they say? Rule one of a gunfight is to have a gun, any gun. So if you don't feel like strapping on the big irons, then a little fella like the baby Browning or a snubbie revolver would be a lot better than being unarmed.
 
I carry in Florida, and go with a G23 or a minimaster in 22 win mag. That's a pocket pistol, I have borrowed an LCR and loved it.
In Detroit, I go with a colt combat commander.
 
D 23 said:
I wouldn't carry anything I had no use for and I have absolutely no use for a gun...

Watch, wallet, keys and phone. That's enough junk to cart around daily.
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Well...that kinda the way I think too, when I'm sober! But - this little Browning was so small and tiny it would fit right in with your keys and other junk with no trouble at all! My biggest fear with a gun like that is that the little ones would scoop it and play with it because that is how small it is! I have no real need of a gun on a day to day basis either but I would carry that stupid Browning around simply because it is such a cool looking little machine...
 
At the show I spoke of, I asked the Glock guy if the restricted handgun notation on my RPAL (12-6 or something? I'm too tired to look) would allow me to buy a tiny little .380 and he said no, that the designation only applies to firearms that were in Canada before the time the law changed. Knowing my country so well, I imagine that's correct, but can anyone confirm it?
 
I was down in the US a few weeks ago visiting someone who had a Washington State carry permit.

He carries a Roger LCP in .380.

Now that thing was TINY and .380 isn't really something you would like to get hit with.

When he is outdoors he carries a Sig P229.

He was fully baffled by our gun laws.

"So you can walk through the woods with a short barrel shotgun or carry a battle rifle M1A but not a .22 revolver????? That makes no sense"
 
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