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Renegade wrote:

srothstein wrote:For all of you who are truly anti-cuffs, let me pose a situation to you:

You have just come home and found the front door kicked in. You draw your weapon and your cell phone to call 911. As you are dialing, a man comes running out the front door towards you. You aim at him and tell him to stop. He complies, dropping the property he was carrying and raising his hands.

OK, you got him. Now what are you going to do with him?

Let him keep in running out the front door.

It is a very, very bad idea for someone with ZERO training in making a felony arrests, to try to cuff a suspect, much less while in possession of a gun.

You are talking about taking a situation where just letting him go (presumably with little to none of your valuables), and escalating it to a situation where you could get killed in a struggle while cuffing him.

No brainer - let him go.

USMC-COL wrote:

RubenZ wrote:So I got to thinking.

I don't like IWB. I like OWB carry and I always wear my shirt untucked or in winter a light jacket. BUT, what if one got a handcuff holster and placed it in front of their Gun Holster say like at the 2 o'clock position with handcuffs in it. That way if you accidentally showed any sheep would think you were just undercover because you appeared to be LEO and would be less inclined to call the COPS.

If your carry methods will easily compromise your concealment, change your carry methods. In an incident, cuffs may go to the totality of circumstances - "Was he out looking for trouble?" If you need to detain someone beyond presentation, you can almost always find something in the environment such as your belt, shoe laces, or the piece of 550 cord you just happen to have in your pocket.