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I own pistols without manual safeties. I carry one daily: a double action with a decocker.

My backup doesn't even have a decocker: it's a double action revolver.

LEOs have to worry about reholstering safely much more than CHLs do, because they have to reholster one-handed while the fight is still on. Transitioning from "subject prone at gunpoint" to "applying handcuffs" is the scariest part of a LEO's day.

A CHL who engages a BG will most likely be alone in the parking lot when the police arrive, or will still be holding the BG at gunpoint, or will be performing CPR on the BG. Of the above cases, only CPR will involve reholstering, and that can be done leisurely and safely. In the other cases, the CHL will be laying the pistol on the ground and backing slowly away with hands in the air.

I do advocate practicing safe reholstering on a regular basis, but in the real world, CHLs will generally have both hands and plenty of time to reholster safely.

Kevin

Holstering is always risky, and too few people understand this.

While a "tuckable" IWB holster might have a higher risk of getting stuff in the trigger, carrying OWB doesn't give you any immunity. Even uniformed LEOs with service pistols have had NDs while reholstering, when the thumb break gets caught in the trigger.

Reholstering technique is important to practice -- and practice unloaded, for the reason you just illustrated!

Kevin