No bug currently; just 2-3 knives on me usually.

Often w/ GSDs too. In our cars (and elsewhere) there is plenty of fox OC spray.


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Seecamp .32 or M60 .38 2". Primary is a Compact Sig or Glock in either .40 or 9mm with two spare mags. Plus Benchmade folding knife.

I'm not in the Coast Guard, but have always subscribed to their motto: "Semper Paratus". Grew up two miles away from the U.S.C.G. Academy.

LCP Custom here.

Rarely now.
Back when I did, it was a 442 or 340PD in the waistband, then it was a G-30 (G-21 was my primary).

P380

NAA.22LR or P380

My swinging cod.

I don't always carry a BUG, but when I do, it's a Ruger LCP, right front pocket, in a Mika pocket holster. My purpose may be a little different than you're thinking of. My reasoning is that if I'm in a situation that is suspicious but doesn't quite justify going to my belt gun, I can have my hand appearing to be casually in my pocket, but it's wrapped around the Ruger, ready to draw if needed. If the seven .380 hollow-points don't do the job, then I can go to the main gun (usually a SIG P320, carried IWB appendix). Put another way, it's a "little gun to fight my way to the big gun." Of course, you know what they say about plans surviving first contact with the enemy.

Fixed blade knife. Automatic opening folding knife.

I keep an expandable baton, razor knife & multi tool in the door pouch of my car..
Usually keep a 9mm on me most of the time = Glock 43X, M&P Shield 2.0 or Springfield Hellcat OSP
Snub Nose 38 & 357 always get left at home
Never leave a gun in my car either EVER!

Being retired my primary is usually a J frame in the strong side pocket. I often have a second J frame or a 365 in the off hand cargo pocket.

No. Once I stopped being an LEO way back when, I've carried only one pistol.

I don't count my 3" Spyderco as a back up weapon.

Nope. Did it for a while once upon a time across three different BUGs over a period of about 5 years, switching from one to the next when I found enough things to dislike about the prior gun. Ultimately I wound up asking myself WTF was I doing and just simplified my carrying life.

One gun, and maybe a spare magazine or two if a perceived need arises. Still have a knife I suppose, if the situation somehow strangely came down to that.

Ruger .327 Federal Magnum with .32 H&R Magnum in it, Federal hollow point self-defense ammo.

Glock 42 or a S&W snubbed nosed with hollow based wadcutters

M&P 340

In my 35 years as a cop, I don't believe I worked a day in uniform without my Colt Cobra .38 in an ankle holster. After auto pistols came in vogue, I did briefly try a G26 in an ankle holster. However, it was a little heavy and uncomfortable compared to the snub, and I ended up taking it off after about 8 hours into a 12 hour shift. I soon went back to the trusty revolver. It might have been different if there was a P365 back then.

Yes, typically a P229 as a backup for my rifle.

But if we're talking a backup of the backup, I rarely have that these days. Used to be a LCP or P3AT.

I'm reminded of that scene on the Tom Cruise Jack Reacher movie where she asks him to put on a shirt and he replies "this is my shirt" as he wrings it out and hangs it up.

Sometimes known as a NY reload. NYPD stake out teams would carry as many as four revolvers along with 12ga pump action shotguns for anticipated social encounters with violent criminals robbing stores.