Have you ever accidently displayed your “concealed” carry?

[VoiceofReason]

What was the reaction/results?

Once while getting into my car, my jacket rode up allowing the Kimber in my ITP belt holster to be seen by a man getting into the next car. I could tell by the look on his face he had seen the Kimber. He didn’t say a word. Neither did I. Just pretended it didn’t happen. Nothing came of it that I know of. At least I wasn’t there if the police came.

I was wondering how many others have accidently displayed your “concealed” carry and what the reaction/results were.

[LarryH]

I used to play on the praise team at my former church.

One Sunday, between services, my vest rode up and exposed the grip of my CZ75.

A week or so later, one of the tech team told me that a little old lady in the congregation had asked her if that guitar player (me) was a policeman, because she had seen a gun.

Nothing else was said directly to me, but my wife is partly convinced that episode was a factor that led to my being invited to leave the praise team some time later.

[C-dub]

I think I did once. I was working in a physician's clinic at the time and was wearing a shoulder rig. As I bent over to help a patient with something they could clearly see down my shirt. I was wearing some color t-shirt with the rig over that and another button shirt over everything. The person never said anything to me and the doctor never did either. The three different docs did not know I carried and there was no sign or policy preventing from carrying. This was sometime in 2002 I think, within about 6 months of getting my CHL. Other than this possible exposure I don't think I have.

[Dragonfighter]

Disclaimer: This is a true event though I am in no way acknowledging it happened to myself or any other person I am acquainted with.

While fairly new to concealed carry, our hero was using a fanny pack for carry. He was engaged in conversation with a cashier at a convenience store while checking out. In the move to retrieve the wallet the zipper to the weapon's compartment was opened unwittingkly by our intrepid law abiding citizen. The cashier began an inexplicable stammer as the protagonist looked down because he could not feel the wallet. A flush of blood fills the capillaries on his face as our hero closes the one compartment, opens the correct one and retrieves the money owed. A meek shrug, a mumble of, "Wrong pocket." and a hasty exit ends our cautionary tale.

[almostfree]

Yes, but thankfully no one saw it or the events the led up to it. It is an embarrassing story, but it did teach me to check the retention screws on my holster on a weekly basis. I am a land surveyor, and I was working in a subdivision that was under construction. I had to jump a 6 ft wood fence to get into a wooded area behind a house. The grass was really overgrown and I did not see that there was an embankment that ran parallel with the fence. I hit the ground wrong and went tumbling. At the time, I was carrying a Glock 20 in 10mm in a Comp-Tac Infidel holster. Well, right as my feet went over my head, the pistol fell out of the holster and beaned me in the back of the head. I check those retention screws religiously now. Like I said, thankfully no one was there to see it!

[The Annoyed Man]

I've had just the opposite experience. Our worship pastor knows I carry on stage and told me he is reassured by that. OTH, I've never, to the best of my knowledge, exposed my weapon. I'm playing an acoustic guitar, and the body of the guitar largely obscures the side of my body the weapon is on, anyway.

I have realized a few times that the bottom edge of my OWB holster was showing because of the way I was slumped in a chair, but I don't think that anybody ever noticed it before I discovered it and unobtrusively pulled my shirt tail back down over it.

[ELB]

Once in a restaurant, the surface of the seating booth kept pushed my vest up as I sat down, and I had to readjust my vest to cover my IWB. No problem then, but later I got up to go to the men's room, and as I was walking across the restaurant I noticed a woman who, while facing straight ahead, had her eyes pegged to the corners watching me. It was actually funny how hard she was staring without trying to look like it. The seat booth had struck again; I just casually readjusted my vest and kept on with my mission. Nothing came of it.

[j1132s]

I don't know if I have or not because nobody's given me any indication of displaying it. But over the years, although I've never accidentally exposed (as far as I know), I have exposed it a few times when trying on clothing in a sotre or "gearing up" in my car...but I don't think anybody noticed it.

(It's also funny at times when I unload my carry gun at the parking lot and casing it, walking over a few yard to the "safe area", uncase it and re- holstering (same holster) it for IDPA. Rules, rules, rules...)