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Originally posted by Ed Fowler:
In 50 years carrying daily I have had firearms drop from holsters in physical confrontations and a Galco shoulder holster. My PPK that I have carried since 1970 has fallen twice, both times landing on the hammer. Not once has it fired.
Same with my Mod 39 or my S&W revolvers.


I cannot for the life of me understand why anyone would carry any rifle, pistol or shotgun in such manner as it could go off when dropped.

In my opinion: To depend upon holsters is a fools game! Look at most of them, they are far from failure proof to retain the handgun.

I stay away from competitions involving a large number of competitors just for that reason and avoid being around anyone with what I consider an inadequate holster.

WHY take the chance???

My greatest fear as a LEO was some creep taking my hand gun out of the holster while in was in a confrontation and using it on me or someone else.

I avoided that possibility, but that would involve a complete new discussion.

Thanks for reading and feel free to discuss.

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Update 11/11/2020: We now know that the firearm in question was a DA/SA CZ Shadow, which does not have an internal firing pin block.