Ever had an accidental discharge with gun holstered?

[JRWhit]

Not calling your friend a liar but...

There is no way in hell that happened.

I can't totally verify his account as to me it is second hand. And as I do not carry a Glock I haven't spent any time researching it. Apparently by his accord, he was able to find similar incidents in which this had happened to others resulting in settlements. I will fully acknowledge That this is a word of mouth account, but none the less I would urge anyone that carries Glock to at least research it to be sure, and have revised part added if needed. No need to prove by mimic.
I apologize but I'm not sure which model this was.

 

[XxBulletBendeRXx]

done...

Is Crossbreed a reputable holster company? I'm now looking into the best options for me. I live in Texas where the weather is rather warm and I'm a skinny guy. I really am leaning toward IWB but the kydex/leather hybrid of Crossbreed seems like a great idea and also very safe.

Imo Crossbreeds are one of the most comfortable, durable, and easy to draw from holsters made. Some say that they do not have enough retention, but the kydex portion can be easily heated up with a heat gun/blow dryer (per the instructions that come with a crossbreed) to ad more retention if needed. Not to mention your belt also ads retention while it is worn. Personally I swear by them, they are so comfortable due to the fact that the weight is distributed over such a wide area that I forget that its even there.

 

[ATLDave]

Well, there is one way to have a little extra insurance against mistakes/mishaps during holstering (such as toggles or a holster lip getting into the trigger guard): get a gun with an actual external safety. I'd bet real money that far more people have died as a result of an AD/ND that an external safety would have prevented than have ever died as a result of failing to take the safety off when they needed the weapon to fire.*

* Part of my confidence comes from the fact that there are, to my knowledge, ZERO confirmed instances of a lost-a-gunfight-because-he-couldn't-get-the-safety-off problem.

 

[NG VI]

It's got nothing to do with Glocks, no pistol can both feed a round into the chamber and have the extractor impact the primer simultaneously. And primers are not sensitive to rubbing, they discharge by an impact.

It's an extremely unlikely, maybe impossible, scenario to begin with (a extractor in any current production pistol contacting the primer while the slide is in battery) and then it gets doubly implausible because it relies on the primer itself behaving in a way that primers do not behave.

Basically, your friend could not have had his slide in battery and had the extractor contacting the primer at the same time, and the primer could not have been set off just from being contacted by the extractor, even with prolonged rubbing. For the extractor to contact the primer, the cartridge would have to be about halfway out of the chamber and angled in such a way that even the most casual glance would show you there is something wrong.

You can see what I mean with any pistol, doesn't have to be a Glock, all of them operating off the Browning short recoil system have pretty similar extractor/chamber relationships. Take a cartridge and touch the primer to the extractor, then look at how the cartridge must be angled in order to make it into the chamber. It just isn't something that a functional adult could possibly miss while loading their pistol and holstering it.

Manufacturers make subtle changes to parts all the time over the course of their product's lifespan, for major player's pistols it is almost always a reliability or durability fix, almost never a safety issue. An extractor redesign would be for improved reliability, maybe the change was to make the extractor function better as it's spring ages, but there's not really a conceivable way that an extractor redesign would impact safety.

 

[mdauben]

Cloth holsters (like uncle mike's) are generally just a carrier, they do NOT provide safety (as is the story with the off-duty officer a while back).

When I first bought my Gen1 Glock 17 back in the day, I also bought an Uncle Mike's fabric IWB holster. Looking back, I cringe every time I think of carrying that gun with one in the chamber using that flimsy, unsafe holster. Nothing but kydex or stiff leather for me now!

 

[Fotno]

I can't totally verify his account as to me it is second hand.

I think many times these stories are concocted to cover up the embarrassment of a ND, or even a possibly criminal act.

My dad (who was a homicide detective) used to say; "You have to listen to what a interviewee means, not just what they say. 'It just went off!' can mean 'I was P.O.'d at my wife, and tried to shoot her' or 'I was drunk' or 'I'm in need of mental evaluation'. 'I was cleaning my gun' can actually mean 'I was sitting there thinking about killing myself but chickened out.'"

This last one happens often enough that 'cleaning my gun' is police slang for suicide in some departments.

 

[X-Rap]

I can attest to the dangers of the drawstring keepers at 9&6 on some pullover outer wear. I had a tangle with one when reholstering once, no discharge, I attribute that to the soft slow holstering I have trained myself to do.
I suggest using the off side to tension the cord and use a pliers or hammer to destroy the one on your strong side.

 

[JRWhit]

Agreed. Use cross bread and love it. Holstering is a breeze unlike some other inside the waist ban holsters.

 

[Ramone]

No injury, fortunately, and the pistol jammed as the holster kept the spent case from clearing the Ejection Port- otherwise, he thinks it might have emptied the mag!

How so? Had he modified the gun?

His thought was that with his hand on the grip, and the 'toggle' on the trigger, it would have bump fired.

 

[JRWhit]

I think many times these stories are concocted to cover up the embarrassment of a ND, or even a possibly criminal act.

My dad (who was a homicide detective) used to say; "You have to listen to what a interviewee means, not just what they say. 'It just went off!' can mean 'I was P.O.'d at my wife, and tried to shoot her' or 'I was drunk' or 'I'm in need of mental evaluation'. 'I was cleaning my gun' can actually mean 'I was sitting there thinking about killing myself but chickened out.'"

This last one happens often enough that 'cleaning my gun' is police slang for suicide in some departments.

Very possible. Like I said, Take a grain of salt with this one. All I know is that a pistol that was holstered and untouched fired into his leg with witnesses on site working in the same office. You can fill in the blank as to how it happened. Makes no bones to me. I still plan on getting a Glock at some point.