My question is regarding where do you stash the pistol if you're forced to submit to the call of nature (#2 for guys or anything for ladies) and your carrying IWB or pocket concealed, you gotta drop your pants...then what?

What carry method do you find defeats this dilemma? FYI I'm carrying my full size 9mm M&P still at this point.

Most restrooms have at least one stall with closed walls. and if it's in a pocket how is any one gonna see anyway? As far as urinals go... use that hole in the front of your tighty whities (or whatever else you wear) and just drop your fly

Don't drop your pants all the way down and you can avoid some problems. I've never had a gun fall out of my pocket. When I wore a sport coat regularly, I'd slip my gun out of its belt holster and simply tuck it in the interior pocket. Last time this situation occurred to me, I simply removed my revolver from the IWB holster and tucked into a pants pocket and held it there. That also worked.

Keep in mind that while that gap under the wall looks pretty big someone has to get low enough to have a line of sight to your weapon. However, what I do is roll the waistband of my underwear down and over the butt of the pistol. Not only does it cover it up but it keeps the weight of the pistol from flipping itself upside down.

I leave it in the holster in my pocket.

I should re-iterate that I don't have a pocketable pistol, I have a 4.25 inch semiauto M&P9...so no pocket carrying for this one, maybe when I get a Kel-Tec I can keep in pocket. I'm concerned with using a IWB holster and having the butt end of my semiauto visible outside the stall if I'm popping a squat.

I carry big cannons IWB quite often. When I drop my pants I put the holstered gun (I use holsters with steel belt clips) right in the middle of my pants between my ankles. I've heard of people leaving guns sitting on top of toilet tanks ect., so whatever you do make your system idiot proof.

I draw the gun and hold it in my teeth until I'm done... Seriously, it varies with the location and configuration of the restroom. There's always a safe way, everywhere I've been so far.

Assumming you're asking about how to secure the gun while sitting...

I hold it in my left hand. I do all my business with the other hand. As with anything else involving guns, practice makes perfect.

This way, no one sees it from under the stall and I won't leave it in the stall by accident.

Bobby

This topic seems to pop up quite a bit, and I have never responded 'til now. But, don't any of the stalls you folks use have a coat hook? I've been checking of late...looking at stalls hereabouts in Maryland, New York, Connecticut, and Massachusets; all have looks on the inside of the door. That's what I use when FORCED to "sit a spell" in a public toilet. If no one knows you have a gun before they wo'nt have any idea it's hanging on that hook.

Be safe!

Note: Did not see Larry Craig in any of those stalls!

The big thing is not to forget it when you leave...like that ATF Agent did a week ago.

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Originally posted by StingMP9:
I should re-iterate that I don't have a pocketable pistol, I have a 4.25 inch semiauto M&P9...so no pocket carrying for this one, maybe when I get a Kel-Tec I can keep in pocket. I'm concerned with using a IWB holster and having the butt end of my semiauto visible outside the stall if I'm popping a squat.

For temporarily putting the pistol out of the way, you can put pistols as large as a full size 1911 into a pant's pocket. If you get in the habit of not lowering your pants down past your knees, no one will see so much as the holster even if they are peaking in at you.


[QUOTE]This topic seems to pop up quite a bit, and I have never responded 'til now. But, don't any of the stalls you folks use have a coat hook?[QUOTE]

They do. Are you referring to the practice of putting the hook through the trigger guard and hanging the pistol? That tends to be unsafe and accounts show up in the press periodically of people who have ADs (usually LEOs and usually with Glocks) from indulging in the practice.

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Originally posted by The Big D:
This topic seems to pop up quite a bit, and I have never responded 'til now. But, don't any of the stalls you folks use have a coat hook? I've been checking of late...looking at stalls hereabouts in Maryland, New York, Connecticut, and Massachusets; all have looks on the inside of the door. That's what I use when FORCED to "sit a spell" in a public toilet. If no one knows you have a gun before they wo'nt have any idea it's hanging on that hook.

Be safe!

Note: Did not see Larry Craig in any of those stalls!

http://www.10-8forums.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=0...79&an=0&page=0#63879

I drop it in a pocket or in my underwear/pants while they're down. Depending on the type of toilet paper dispenser you can lay it on it too.

Have seen that thread Mr. Crockett and was appalled. Every handgun I have seen (those suitable for CCW) are weighted toward the grip end...for obvious reasons. Thus they can be easily hung from a hook with the hook between the trigger and the front of the trigger guard. That said, simply sliding the gun toward you virtually eliminates any possibility of an unintentioanl discharge. But mistakes are made, of course.

Be safe!

What is this "coat hook" of which you speak? What is a "coat" and why would one want to "hook" one? Around these parts, we look for sun hat hooks. Are they similar?