Do you carry more than one?

You have one carry pistol on you, do you also carry..

  • 1 back up pistol

    Votes: 25 21.2%
  • 1 back in the car

    Votes: 12 10.2%
  • more than 2 (explain below)

    Votes: 9 7.6%
  • I just carry one.

    Votes: 72 61.0%

  • Total voters
    118
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tyler500e

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I'm curious. Those of you with Concealed Carry Permits. How many of you carry more than one pistol on your person? Does anyone keep a second (or third) weapon in their car?
 
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Depends on where I'm going, and what I'm wearing, here in Az. I wear short probably 90% of the time, so when I do its usually only one,
but if long pants, something iwb and an ankle or pocket unit.
They truck again depending where I'm going and what I'm doing, usually has a shotgun somewhere easy to get to.
also there is additional mags for what ever I am carrying in the rig.
good luck.
 
Just one for me. I am sure someone carries four or five.
I was visiting the range a few weeks back just to see what they had in the case and check some ammo prices. I am watching a few guys on the range when one guy catches my eye. He is holstering and drawing with about four (at least) different guns he has strapped to himself. I just thought it was a little much in my opinion. It was fun to watch.
Another guy watching tells me this guy carries all those guns just about everywhere he goes. At this point I want to talk to this guy and wait til he comes out. He tells me he carries 4 guns and a backup in a ankle holster.
We talked some more and all I can say is this guy is interesting to chat with.
I did like his taste in guns. Four 1911's and a Smith 642.
 
In NM, only (one) permitted by law. To be honest, one is enough for me anyway. I voted for BUG in the vehicle which in today's world with car-jacking, "mad-dogging gone wild", it's a necessity...:)
 
If I'm wearing pants, I have the P3AT.

When I go out of the house, I carry that and a G19, spare mag and a light.
 
I have once worn three pistols, but they were single shot muzzleloaders and I was at the range. For practical purposes (read: my purposes, not everybody's) one works just fine.
 
Tyler500e has raised an interesting question that I have pondered for some time. The genesis for my curiosity began several years ago with an unusual story I heard. Some time ago, a friend informed me of a gentleman who carried two mouseguns, perhaps .22 caliber Berettas, on his person. The supposed rationale was two mouseguns provided better deterrence and, if necessary, better firepower than one small caliber pistol. While this logic is suspect, I believe there are some people who subscribe to it. Perhaps some of our other contributors can shed some light-and logic-on this issue.


Timthinker
 
How many?

Well, my state only allows one for carry at a time. Why would they have a law like that? :banghead: Must have been an outbreak of multiple handgun cowboys or something at one time. :evil: Anyway, it's gonna be a Springfield XD 9mm service model for most of the time, and when it's cold outside and I'm in bulky clothes, my old hand-built 1911-A1 in a BlackHawk belt slide holster. For the vehicle, I'm looking at getting a LEO trade-in Remington 870 or maybe a Marlin .357 lever gun with peep sights. The Marlin lever-action doesn't scream "survivalist" or "postal white guy" when I take it out of the vehicle.
 
I often carry two bug-guns because of what I normally wear I can't really carry/hide anything larger. Anyway I carry one in a pants pocket and the other on my ankle. My thinking is two fold, more or extra firepower and accessability, that meaning which I can get to at the time. If I'm seated at the time when I need it, it may be easier to get the one on my ankle rather than the one in my back pocket, or vice versa. LM
 
Hope I'm never proven wrong but the day I need more that 8 rds of .45ACP, I've sure as hell wandered into the wrong place at the wrong time.:uhoh:
 
I always carry my LCP.

Almost always also carry either my M&Pc, or SP101.
So about 80% of the time, I've got two guns. Not too infrequently, though, i only have one.
 
The day I need more than 5 rounds of 38+P I've sure as hell wandered into the wrong place at the wrong time. Fact is, the day I need one round is that day. For that reason I stay away from the OK Corral, which is easy since I live in Florida.
 
i keep a Bonds Arms Snakeslayer...........

................in the little compartment of my driver side door. Those two 00 buck rounds will buy me enough time to get to my carrier at 4 o clock.
 
i carry just one for the time being but in training i have been incorperating a bug in there and going through the motions.
 
Hope I'm never proven wrong but the day I need more that 8 rds of .45ACP, I've sure as hell wandered into the wrong place at the wrong time.

You're right, but by my way of thinking, if I need even one round of any caliber, I've stumbled into the wrong place at the wrong time.
 
to the post questioning hiding 4 1911s:

I enjoy my game of "hey LEO buddy...am I packing or not?" that i play whenever my LEO buddy drops by. To date he can't tell where my Taurus PT99 (a full size 9mm) is or if i'm carrying it. On a 6' 200lb guy (myself for example) i feel it's completely possible to hide 4 large size pistols:

IWB on both hips and undershoulder with a sportcoat etc. I can't see concealment being a deterrent for me but I can damn well think it would get heavy.

I can't wait for the day I get to put on my first CCW permit and play "i'm that kid in the Micheal Moore movie...yes that is a shotgun in my pants and yes I am happy to see you."
 
Occasionally I will go and do the "just what can I get away with" CCW.

2 1911's
XD-45
22mag NAA
Ruger sp101

over 250 rds ammo in mags in carriers to boot, just shorts and shirt no coat
 
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