The Stylish Man’s Guide to Concealed Carry
by ANTONIO on SEPTEMBER 26, 2012
The Art of Manliness is a great website, and it actually does serve to inform men about some of the dying manly arts—everything from how to smoke a turkey to how to build an heirloom quality dining table to manage money, be a good dad, etc., etc.How to arrange good-looking clothing around the decidedly non-standard bulge of a handgun is a topic worth looking at. It’s something that a whole range of men need to think about: police detectives, security guards, entrepreneurs in dangerous countries, and even your average American civilian who prefers to be armed.
“Concealed carry” exists for a number of reasons. When you’re doing it, you want to be living up to both parts of the phrase: you want to be carrying, and have access to, a firearm, and you want it to be discreetly hidden until such time as you need it.
For some men, any jacket long enough to hide a holster is sufficient. But for most men, concealed carry needs to fit other societal expectations:
Anyway, we all know that it is impossible to cover this topic on one web page, but it is pretty cool to see a non-gun website including a webpage about how to dress around your gun among the "manly arts." (For the female forum members, my WIFE loves this website too, reads it every day, and she's the one who pointed out this article to me.)
its like second nature to be manly because that was the culture you were raised in. I am only 28 and was raised in the nanny state of California so I must have missed out on Manliness 101 in school.