A LIFE CHANGER

[Doug M.]

Mean Gene Leather also has a coin carrier of this nature. I don't know which is first.

I still have a pair of good condition sap gloves and carry them in my car. Yes, I'm old. For those who have never considered this - don't punch anyone unless you are trained as a boxer; most of us will screw it up and break a knuckle in what is known for cause as a "boxer's fracture". Do a palm heel strike.

 

[flagman1776]

I have a round spring loaded sap [see m75rlg post above] and a flat slapper. They were banned on duty during my employment.
I had a claw and very old handcuffs that I made a key for... turned a bolt down in my lathe and filed to fit. I donated them to a my old dept for display.

My Captain was an artist with a flat slapper... I saw him take someone down so fast the person struck swore he was hit with an open hand. (In a crowd control situation, I knew the punk was about to try something.) The slapper was up his sleeve and went into his trouser's sap pocket. His father had been a trooper in the old days...

 

[younggun22]

Mean Gene Leather also makes a few different variations of the coin purse that are worth checking out.

Mean Gene Leather | Product categories Coin Purses

 

[1MoreFord]

Being the cheap arsed type I am I don't think so for 60 bucks.

 

[ParadiseRoad]

...the weighted bookmark...available from places like Amazon...

 

[CH4]

These days even a roll of Bitcoin would be illegal to carry in CA.

Bill

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Carrying a role of Lifesavers is a wobbler in CA.

 

[gwpercle]

It is a blackjack, of course.

" It is a perfectly shaped shaped coin pouch...Have a nice Day !"

I'm getting a "perfectly shaped coin pouch " for Christmas and will ask the wife if she would like one .
When your over the age of 60 ... you need help with your coins.

I wonder if there is a "Senior Citizen" discount ?
Us oldsters are suckers for discounts and coupons .

I'm going over to thr Barranti Leather web site and check out what's happining . Just read (American Handgunner) about there being a Barranti-Myers line of holsters ..old school is cool and looking is fun !
Gary

 

[usmc2427765]

Early in my LEO career, I carried a "slapper" which could be used to good effect when needed. Then the liberals took control of the city.........

 

[JayFramer]

I don't know... just seems way sketchy and is just such a grey area.

I would be extremely nervous that it could be considered a concealed bludgeon. Personally I would never, ever carry one of these. In many places, carrying such things can label you a felon.

 

[ParadiseRoad]

...something most jurisdictions haven't outlawed...

...4 ounce size is pretty handy...

 

[LPD256]

Myself and many of my customers have flown with our Life Changers. Simply remove it with your belt and run it thru the scanner/X-ray. The worst case one customer had to empty the quarters to prove that was all that was in there. Another customer went to Disney and the security guard looked at it and said that's nothing but a perfectly shaped coin pouch...have a nice day! Like Will Dabbs, a friend traveled to London with his without any issues.

It's just a handy pouch for keeping your change out of your pockets. No more, no less.

Hey Doc-Another nice write up in American Handgunner this month about Barranti-Myres. Congratulations.

Jim

 

[Onomea]

This thread reminded me of a scene in either a book or movie where a junior officer on a ship, faced with an insubordinate sailor, challenges him to a fistfight, and uses the roll of coins in the fist trick.

For the past week or so, I've been trying to recall where I read or saw it. My memory of the scene is quite vivid.

Today, beginning to reread Robert Ruark's The Horn of the Hunter, my favorite Ruark book, I realized that my memory is most likely of a scene in one of his lesser works, The Honey Badger.

Ruark served in the the Navy in the North Atlantic in World War II. While I read it a long, long time ago, The Honey Badger is a roman à clef, primarily about the various women he had relationships with. While I remember little about the women and the relationships, the shipboard fight, and the roll of nickels (?), sticks with me these near 50 years later.