Do you worry that someone might try to take your gun away from you? Or you just don't let them get too close? All these things have been in my mind a lot lately. Soon, I might be walking around with a gun up my boobs, so I'm deeply interested in these issues. Not that anyone will be likely to grab my boobs, so I might be ok! Lol.
This is always a possibility. And it should be something we think about with respect to how we would handle such an event.
I had just such a thing happen to me way back in the early 90s...fortunately, the guy didn't understand holster retention and was unable to pull my revolver out of the holster. (Yeah, the guy didn't have the brain cells to understand what that little leather strap on my western holster over the hammer spur was.)
In this particular circumstance, the guy was taken down to his knees by a simple twisting hand lock and the situation fortunately rapidly de-escalated.
There are layers of defense to this concern:
- Concealed means concealed...what they don't know about they aren't likely to go for.
- Holster retention. There are several methods of holster retention, some more suitable to preventing a snatch than others.
- An actual manual safety. A gun which actually has a manual safety is a gun the person who snatches must figure out and release. Granted, this is not rocket science; but those instants in time are long indeed when push comes to shove.
- Training and forethought. These two go hand-in-hand because training doesn't mean anything if you don't put yourself in the mindset of "what would happen if...".
- Situational awareness. Know what's happening around you and adjust your posture accordingly. A smart person recognizes warning signs early and works to minimize their odds of confrontation accordingly.
