How do cops or full carry folks do this?

[joeintexas]

LMAO!!!Only in the Lounge can one read about the ins and outs of doing one's business with a full size CCW! The mental pictures I got reading this thread are forever burned in my mind! LOL!

 

[Bkreutz]

How about wearing diapers? (this should precipitate some interesting mental pictures).

 

[feralmerril]

As a guard I knew all the best bathrooms. The nice ones with hooks. That leads me to this story. Gate guards is a bad job if you arent regular. Some main gates you just cant close and have to call a relief. Most times the relief guard is relieving some one else. This one guard got stood up for quite awhile. When the relief got there the guard was sitting on the waste basket wearing a rain coat on a clear 100 degree day waving a string of cars through from the dutch door. When the relief guard got there he just said, hand me some of those paper towels!
Way back we had a dwarf Secretary. She was driving home one night and my buddy was in a spot. He was standing behind the dutch door doing his thing in a coffee can and waving the shift out. She had a handfull of orders for him from the chief to leave at the post. He waved her on but she kept motioning him to her car with a handfull of orders.
Finaly she left the car and stormed over to bring the orders. Lucky for both them she was so short!
Actualy, that was and is the worst part of the job for a guard on guarding a gate. There are probley not many other jobs where you cant take a emergency break when you need one. There was always new good storys you heard.

 

[BaaBaa]

I can't imagine taking my belt off at all! Being female I always have to deal with this. Instead look for bathrooms with larger doors, find the one at the end so at least one side is a solid wall. Even better find ones with doors that go all the way to the ground.

Drop trousers and carefully keeping gun in holster sort of fold up the side with the holster into the crotch. Verify that it cannot be seen under the stall door or by someone peeking in through the cracks in the door. When you are getting dressed again grab the belt, pants and holster in one hand to keep everything from clanking. Turn so the side with the gun is facing either the back or the solid wall so you can rearrange without anyone who come sin getting a glimpse through the cracks in the door. Verify your cover garment is correctly positioned before opening the door.

I NEVER take my gun out of the holster in the bathroom! On occasion I will take the gun from a purse holster and put it back into my belt holster. I do this after having left the purse in the car with hubby while I made a trip into the post office. But I get to the first suitable bathroom and get that puppy back on my belt where it belongs! I am not very comfortable carrying in a purse but it's better than not carrying.

Seriously guys, how safe can it be to hang up a belt and weapon in a bathroom stall? And the thought of taking the gun out and laying it somewhere <shudder>

And just for the record because I usually carry most stuff in a belt pouch and not a purse I have several pounds of things on my belt including cell phone, leatherman tool, gun etc.

 

[KKECK5]

Long time ago and a lot less gear back then, but if it was in the station house I'd either put in my locker and have my partner watch it.. On the road, i had a mental list of clean bathrooms with sturdy hooks on the doors. I never, ever wanted to put it on the floor. ewwww.....

 

[smokey04]

That is why, after 40 years of packin', I retired and went to a Galco Miami Classic. Us oldsters got to go on the road more frequently and the shoulder rig keeps the equipment off the floor and out of sight. It also makes for easy accessibility while sitting in the drivers seat, or God forbid, in the crapper.Before I retired and started traveling, I didn't much like a shoulder rig,although as a Army Helicopter pilot the old m-3 m-7 "chest holsters" were the best thing going. Nick

 

[Jessie]

My god, just do what you have to do to take care of business and quit asking a forum how to take a dump with a gun.

 

[Alk8944]

Several solutions:

1) Go to the station and hang your belt in your locker.

2) Hang belt on the coat hook if it is within reach, and keep an eye on it.

3) End stall, next to the wall. Lay belt on floor next to your feet, against the wall. Shouldn't be visible, or accessible, from outside stall.

4) Lock belt in car trunk, put gun in pocket, lay gun in shorts while "busy". You will never leave the gun laying somewhere! Works best on "graveyard".

Just a comment. If an individual can't figure out the relatively simple logistics of what to do with his gun/equipment while on the can, maybe said individual should re-think carrying a handgun, in any scenario!

 

[sipowicz]

I put the gun on my head while pooping. It's out of the way and it also helps me work on my posture and balancing skills.

 

[eveled]

Another approach, Stop eating junk food and greasy meals, eat yogurt everyday. Eat lots of fiber and whole grains. Keep your digestive tract healthy, and take one good dump a day, when you want to at home. Then enjoy the rest of your day. Ed.

 

[Grimjaws]

Thanks

It never ceases to amaze me how much knowledge is on this forum not to mention how willing folks are to share this info (no matter how weird the question is) with others. I'll stick with the j frame in my pocket holster!

Thanks for sharing folks!

 

[BigCityChief]

Another approach, Stop eating junk food and greasy meals, eat yogurt everyday. Eat lots of fiber and whole grains. Keep your digestive tract healthy, and take one good dump a day, when you want to at home. Then enjoy the rest of your day. Ed.

Exactly - worked for me for 30 years.


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[vito]

I think the simplest answer is to just stick with the pocket carry of the j-frame until you lose the weight that you hope to lose. I like to use an OWB holster for my 642. Standing or sitting in the john is not a problem. Access to the gun while sitting is a little challenging sometimes but not impossible and not likely to ever be a serious issue.

 

[Mickey D]

Place the gun in your banana hammock.

 

[tomf52]

Carry a loop of parachute cord (or any other soft , strong cord) in your pocket. About big enough to comfortably fit over your head. You loop the cord through the trigger guard and put the loop over your head and let the gun hang by the trigger guard. When done , reholster and put the cord back in your pocket.

 

[Stevens]

Whatever you do don't forget it (your firearm) in there, it has been done, no, not by me.
Steve W.

 

[vito]

I like the idea of the loop of cord. This would guarantee that the gun doesn't end up on the floor, or in the toilet, or that you leave it accidentally behind in the stall.

 

[scott1970]

Wearing a duty belt is something you just get used to over time, unless you have occasion to work a double. As far as the bathroom concern goes, I head to the station or the annex.

 

[Muley Gil]

A full duty rig hurts. Period. Mine weighed 12 pounds, all up. If a sit-down is required, you go back on post, or another safe place, like a fire house, and take your duty belt off. Hang it from the hook on the partition door. Remove weapon. Now, you have two reasonable choices: place it on the TP dispenser, if it fits and won't slide, or, drop trou, assume the seated position and carefully place said firearm in the crotch of your trou, which are now around your ankles. Pay special attention to the direction of the muzzle of the weapon. Upon completion of deposit and associated procedures, reverse process.
Insert weapon back in duty belt and secure, then put duty rig back on.
If wearing weapon and mag and cuff pouch only, I recommend the gun in the dropped trou crotch myself. See above for cautionary statement. If doing the TP holder weapon retention method, don't forget the weapon when you exit the stall.
If you leave your weapon in the holster of your duty rig and hang it from the coat hook, I double-damned guarantee somebidy will come by, reach over the partition and make off with your whole belt, weapon included. Cops are famous for doing this to each other.
Do not do the toilet tank top as a shelf method, for it is damp, slick, and you might forget your weapon. In my years as a watch commander, more times than a few I was presented with a weapon somebody left in the crapper. I always found it highly amusing when somebody shame-facedly appeared before my desk admitting he left his weapon in the crapper.
Thus endeth the long-winded, but trulu complete answer to your question.

Oh, you had the lightweight belt. Mine weighed 15 pounds. 3" M625, four (4) fullmoon clips of .230 gr .45 ACPs, a pair of S&W cuffs, a Leatherman tool, a can of pepper spray, a baton holder (kept the PR24 in the seat cushion), and a radio, all on a Safariland leather belt.

When I took old Sam Browne off after my shift, I tended to float around the room for at least 15 minutes.