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I know a guy who was carrying a Glock in an OWB holster with a thumb break. He had finished doing his business, stood up, and was pulling up his pants when the weapon fell out of the holster and (you guessed it) fell into the toilet. Evidently he had accidently hit the thumb break allowing the Glock to make its great escape.

Now imagine standing there looking at your pistol sitting at the bottom of a rather unsanitary toilet bowl.

It’s not like you’re going to leave it there…but then again, you’re not going to gingerly pick it up with your fingertips, carry it over to the sink, and wash it off. I mean let’s face it, you have a real problem to deal with.

He fished it out so the toilet would flush, and then put it back in the now empty bowl and re-flushed a couple of times to rinse it off. He then used a considerable amount of toilet paper to dry it off after breaking it down (field stripped). After re-holstering he went to the sink to perform a “surgical scrub� of his hands and then went out to join the crew at the table.

Now this is when he made his really big mistake…he sheepishly told about his trials and tribulations in the land of the great commode. You can imagine the comments…especially since most of the folks at the table were died-in-the-wool 1911 fans…a Glock in the toilet was just too much for them…I think the jokes and innuendos continued not only for the rest of the night, but the rest of the year.

So the moral of the story is be sure your pistol is properly retained before you stand up…and if by chance it does fall into the porcelain repository, do not tell anyone about it…especially if you’re carrying a Glock.

Now before anyone jumps to the wrong conclusion, I was carrying my 1911 at the time