Gun Digest's Lifestyle of Carrying a Concealed Weapon eShort by Massad Ayoob

Author:Massad Ayoob [Ayoob, Massad]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-4402-3407-1
Publisher: F+W Media
Published: 2012-04-11T04:00:00+00:00

…that you have draped the garment strategically to cover a full-size Beretta police service pistol in a quick-access Dillon holster.

About This Book

This book is not about when you can shoot. That would be In the Gravest Extreme. It’s not about how to shoot a handgun under stress. That would be StressFire. It’s not about a total approach to personal safety and crime prevention. That would be The Truth About Self-Protection. All three are available from Police Bookshelf, PO Box 122, Concord, NH 03302, (www.ayoob.com). I recommend them, but hell, I wrote them, so take the recommendation from whence it comes.

The chapters on guns and holsters are generic. If I don’t recommend a particular brand, it doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a piece of crap; it may just mean that I haven’t worked with it long enough to give it a recommendation. Anything I recommend in here by name is something I’ve tested sufficiently to trust my own life to; I can’t do that with every product. I’ve tested guns that were obviously designed by people who didn’t carry them and didn’t know how to shoot them, and holsters obviously designed by people who didn’t carry concealed handguns. I don’t have time to list the junk, nor do I have the time or the financial resources to fight nuisance suits by junk-makers who sue people for telling the truth about their products. If I say it’s good, I’m putting my name and reputation on that fact. If I don’t mention it, well, I’m just not mentioning it, but remember, there’s good stuff out there that I probably just haven’t tested yet.

I may be a funnel, but I can’t funnel the whole industry.

Some points will be repeated in different chapters. I suppose that reflects a little of the instructor’s mantra, “Tell ‘em what you’re gonna tell ‘em; tell ‘em; then tell ‘em what you told ‘em.” I think it reflects more the simple reality that in an adult lifetime as an author, I’ve found that folks read novels straight front to back, but non-fiction books like this a chapter at a time, piece-meal, jumping back and forth. Some points need to be made in context for the sporadic reader.

TV and movie characters are mentioned here a lot. That’s because such things have largely defined public perception about concealed carry methods. It needed to be addressed.

In some chapters, you’ll see me drawing from under a transparent raincoat. No, I’m not recommending “transparent concealment”! It’s a device I hit on to demonstrate concealed draw without hand and weapon being hidden from the learner’s view.

In reading this book, it’s important to maintain some perspectives.

The raison d’etre is important. Carrying a concealed handgun reflects serious understandings about predictable danger in Life, and it brings more serious understandings with it. We’ll talk about that.

This book is laid out the way it is for a reason. Rules of the Road are important. We’ll talk about where you can carry, and where you can’t. When you should, and when you shouldn’t.

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