🙈 Makeshift Concealment (What have you done?) 🔫

[Mag+1]

I don't know about you guys (and ladies), but every now and again, I'll need to temporarily carry my gun without a holster and without pockets (or at least without pockets/pants durable enough).

For example, I want to carry my gun while driving to a softball game in which I'm a player. During the game, I'll just lock it in my car's gun vault. While driving to/from, I'll have it in a small holster in my covered center console. However, going from my condo to my car, I have to walk out "in public" for a very short distance. I don't want to holster my gun in my softball pants, and the two back pockets are too small to carry a firearm.

So, to satisfy the concealment requirement when in public, I've done one of a number of things: from sticking the firearm in my softball glove...to putting it in my baseball cap and carrying the cap in my hand...to simply holding it under my shirt while walking (in a nonchalant way)...to putting it inside my gear bag. If I have a towel, I'll just wrapped it in that and walk to my car.

Also, I regularly put wrap it in a towel when I go down to my garage to lift weights. When weight-lifting (or just working in my garage), I just put the gun on a garage shelf under something where I can easily get to it, if needed. (it's a private—not shared—garage)

How about you? What are some of your temporary makeshift (and/or most bizarre) concealment efforts?

[bk23103]

Lunch pail.

[back4more70]

I have a zip up pistol rug that I use. It doesn't have any logos on it, so it almost looks like a personal organizer.

[Notpc]

Walmart shopping bag. Anybody asks, "just returning something".

[caliberetta]

Pistol rug.

[Rover60]

My baseball cap


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[robert101]

I do the same as you except I just put it in my softball bag and carry it into the house. If I'm drinking after the game it stays locked and away from me. I don't want to have a LEO think my carry gun is accessible to me if I've had a drink. I don't drive drunk either.

[L84CABO]

They have these things called, "Backpacks," "Fanny Packs," "Man Purses," "Shopping Bags," "Gym Bags," "Briefcases," etc

Oh...and "Carry-Alls."

[Notorious]

Camera bag or belt satchel made for cell phone, sort of like a Sneaky Pete but way cheaper and actually can carry more stuff other than a gun. I actually turned a few civilian bags and satchels into covert gun pouches.

I've also had to just put it in a folded tee shirt or towel just to walk it short distances.

[KahrMan]

Strappd to my thigh under a Kilt?

[naeco81]

Depending on the gun (works best with smaller options) you might want to look at TechnaClip + kydex trigger guard.

[Archon_g24]

The one great thing about the plastic bag law is that I have to carry in my own bag.

[Notpc]

Originally Posted by Archon_g24

The one great thing about the plastic bag law is that I have to carry in my own bag.

Yep, hence my answer in earlier post. Everyone is carrying around a wad of Walmart bags these days (except the ebt crowed, theirs are free).

[Gomphe]

I have used the following to conceal my daily carry:

- Fanny pack
- Day pack or gym bag
- Inside pocket of a vest.
- Inside of my cargo short leg pocket
- Inside of my ankle boot brace.
- Bicycle jersey pocket.

Note: In each case, I had a holster with my weapon that covered the entire trigger guard.

[Mag+1]

Originally Posted by Gomphe

I have used the following to conceal my daily carry:

- Fanny pack
- Day pack or gym bag
- Inside pocket of a vest.
- Inside of my cargo short leg pocket
- Inside of my ankle boot brace.
- Bicycle jersey pocket.

Note: In each case, I had a holster with my weapon that covered the entire trigger guard.

I'm thinking about getting one of those trigger-specific guards with the tether to remove it upon drawing the gun. This could be useful when using impromptu concealment. However, I would have to find something to which to tether it.

[Mag+1]

With my hands full of other things, I've carried my firearm stuck in one of my shoes that I was carrying. This was from my car to my house. I had a spare shirt draped over it since the grip was exposed.

[Mike350GT]

microfiber towel always works well. Besides helping with concealment, it's always something you can use.

[Lonestargrizzly]

Put it in my pocket when using a public restroom for a #2

[CONDITION1]

Large Carl's Jr cup

[QuarterBoreGunner]

Chicago holster

[Gomphe]

Originally Posted by QuarterBoreGunner

Chicago holster

I see your Chicago holster and raise it with my super holster that I bring to work.



-Gomphe

[maggie06]

Anything that covers the shape, the holster, making it unrecognizable. I've used shirts, plastic bags, reusable fabric grocery bags.

But I really like that lunch pail.

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[GregsCCW]

Sometimes I carry my LCP in a back pocket without a holster condition 2 if I'm going out to my car or something at night. I use a pocket holster pretty often, I've got some unconventional holsters I've used a few times like a belly band and an ankle, this is with an LCP. Typically use a small iwb holster with a clip that goes behind my belt and tuck my shirt in over the gun as well. If I'm in an emergency I will need to get it out and this isn't going to be as easy as I'd like but it's better than nothing, and I never carry the LCP condition 1. When I'm carrying in an environment where I don't have to worry about printing quite so much I just use a standard iwb and carry my shield 9 loaded but on safe. I do all my training with my weapons in these conditions. If I had an external owb holster like a typical police holster with retention and all that on a Sam brown I wouldn't have any problem with carrying loaded and safety off. If I'm going into a more high risk situation I might chamber a round on the LCP. I know many of you think that's crazy, but I don't feel comfortable with carrying that way, I at least want a safety on something that is rubbing against my clothes, body, stuff i might bump into etc that could blow a hole into a major artery in my leg and kill me, or have an ND that is career ending.