Back before the channel, when I had the blog, I was quick to dismiss shoulder holsters.

I found them bulky and requiring special alterations to jackets to make them conceal effectively without an oversized cover garment.

Since then, I started thinking, “How did these things gain so much popularity?”

I’m sure that James Bond, Lethal Weapon, Die Hard, etc., have been contributing factors. However, they wouldn’t have seen as much real-world use as they did if they didn’t work.

So, thanks to some friends and my Patrons, I’m going to spend some time working with these rigs so I can quantify what they can and can’t do.

What questions do you have about shoulder holsters?

Alex Sansone took his first formal pistol class in 2009, and has since
accumulated almost 500 total hours of open enrollment training from many of the nation’s top instructors including Massad Ayoob, Craig Douglas, Tom Givens, Gabe White, Cecil Burch, Chuck Haggard, Darryl Bolke, and many others.

Spending his professional life in the corporate world, Alex quickly realized incongruities between “best practices” in the defensive world, and the practical realities of his professional and social limitations.

“I’ve never carried a gun professionally. I’m just a yuppie suburbanite that happens to live an armed lifestyle.

Having worked in the corporate arena for the last decade, I’ve discovered that a lot of the “requirements” and norms of gun carriers at large aren’t necessarily compatible with that professional environment.

I also have a pretty diverse social background, having grown up in the Northeast, and there are many people in my life that are either gun-agnostic or uncomfortable with the idea of private gun ownership.

This has afforded me not only insights into how we are perceived by different subcultures, but how to manage and interact with people that may not share your point of view without coming across as combative or antisocial.

This is why my focus is the overlooked social aspects of the armed lifestyle.”

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