Chambered or no?

[flyguy8555]

My EDC is a S&W Model 469. I carry with a round chambered and safety off. The 2nd (and 3rd) generation S&W pistols all have firing pin blocks, and a long DA trigger pull for the first shot, so I figure it's actually safer than carrying a revolver. However, I DO engage the safety prior to reholstering my weapon. IMHO a lot of negligent discharges occur during the reholstering of the weapon, when a trigger gets caught on clothing, part of the holster, etc. People get into too much of a hurry reholstering. I practice bringing the weapon back to my chest, search and assess, safety on, reholster, then safety back off. As usual, different people, different weapons, different training will dictate different methods - this is mine. YMMV.

 

[Tomkat]

When you carry, semi auto guys, do you keep it chambered? I have the SD9VE, which is advertised as being confidently abled to carry with one in the chamber(the trigger, design etc) I'm just nervous about it, but the more I think about carrying a gun for SD, seems worthless to not chamber one while concealed. All thoughts and feedback welcome!

I carry chambered all of the time. In my opinion, this is the best and most effective means of carrying. I will disagree with one thing in your post above. I don't consider it worthless to not chamber one if that is what makes the individual comfortable enough to carry and they train in that manner. Although I carry chambered, if you were to have a magic wand and tell me you were going to waive it and my two options were to either not carry or to carry a weapon loaded without a round in the chamber, I would chose the latter.

We all have our opinions as to what is best. We all learn from everybody else based on their opinions and the basis for those opinions. We all have what we feel is our optimum carry method. Going a step further, I would rather have an empty pocket gun in one pocket with the rounds for that weapon in another pocket than I would to be without a weapon. That is no where near optimum; but, I hope my point comes through.