If you own a handgun and take it anywhere, you need a method for transporting it. Just throwing it in the back seat isn't exactly a brilliant idea. You either need a case or a holster, and which is best depends on exactly what you're doing with it.
But if you carry it, a holster is a must. In my home state of Georgia, it's required for carry, but even if it's not legally mandated, you should still do it.
Why? Because it helps stop things from getting in the trigger guard and causing the gun to discharge.
It can also protect your gun from an explosion, apparently.
Customer Brett G’s truck was the victim of the explosion, which also landed Brett in the hospital for an extended stay. The truck itself was a total loss. Yet, somehow, his Stoeger STR-9, equipped with a gun light stored inside a leather Falco A122 holster, survived the blaze largely intact.
The Falco holster shielded the pistol’s slide and light from the explosion and subsequent inferno. Brett spent 65 days in the hospital recovering from the incident. He was shocked to learn that his firearm survived the ordeal.
“I was very impressed when I heard that the pistol in the pickup that burnt up was salvageable,” Brett shared. “It shoots fine, the light was reusable – just needed the grip cleaned and a new mag.”
A photo of the gun was included, and while the grip of the Stoeger is jacked up, the slide, trigger, and trigger guard are in pristine condition. Apparently, Brett just needed to clean up the grip a bit, then get a new magazine, and he was back in business.
The holster looks like refried butt, which is to be expected after a truck exploded, but if I were Brett, I'd keep that particular holster around for good luck.
Falcos aren't exactly cheap holsters, and they use a fairly thick leather, if I'm remembering correctly, which certainly helped keep the gun nice and safe. No holster is designed to protect a gun from a vehicle fire so far as I'm aware, but leather actually does a decent job. The helmets firefighters wear are often made of leather, just as they have been for ages. Not all of them, but many still are and keep firefighters safe enough, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised that Falco's holsters did.
I am, of course, but I shouldn't be by any stretch of the imagination.
Still, it's a cool story. What's cooler, though, is that Falco replaced the holster with a brand new one. Again, I'd keep the old one, but I'd use the new one. Luck only goes so far.
For what it's worth, it also says pretty good things about Stoeger, too, but not as much as it says about Falco's holsters.
I like kydex for daily carry, but I might have to rethink that a bit since I tend to be attached to my guns. Good leather is nice, if a bit heavier. Yet if it protects my guns from a fire, well...why use plastic?
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