Opinion
Ft Collins, CO –-(Ammoland.com)- AIWB (Appendix, Inside the Waistband) Carry:
A current, widely-circulated video purports to display a surveillance-camera scenario depicting a man who holsters a pistol (reported to be a G43) in an AIWB holster (reported to be manufactured by G-Code). Seconds later, the man bends-over in order to pick something up from the floor. When he does, the pistol discharges with his hands nowhere near it.
He is reported to have been struck in the groin as a result.
Unfortunately, important details are missing (as they usually are with this kind of “evidence”):
(1) We don’t get to know whom these people are, nor where, nor when, this UD is supposed to have happened.
(2) We don’t even get to know if this video is “real,” or staged.
(3) Assuming the event is real, we don’t know if the pistol, nor the holster, in question are stock, or had been “modified.”
(4) We also don’t get to know if foreign objects (shirt-tails, lanyards) were present in the holster, or inside the pistol’s trigger-guard.
So, it is difficult for me to specifically comment on this “event,” except for the following general advice on AIWB holsters:
The single most dangerous thing any of us do with pistols, by far, is placing them into holsters!
“Holstering” is the one place where the vast majority of UDs happen! Most don’t involve personal injury and thus are never reflected on any statistic.
I’ve been asked to consult on any number of these UD (unintentional discharges) cases. Sometimes, I have no explanation! The other 99% of the time, the gun-handler had his finger on the trigger, but of course, has since developed amnesia.
(1) “Appendix carry” is preferred currently, particularly among women, so much so that its decline in popularity
