Gun Digest’s IDPA Gear & Concealed Carry Clothing eShort Collection: Massad Ayoob covers concealed carry clothing while discussing handgun training advice, CCW tips & IDPA gear.
By Massad Ayoob
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In this collection, excerpted from the Gun Digest Book of Concealed Carry, Massad Ayoob covers wardrobe choices for CCW, the value of IDPA match training and words of advice to help you survive.
Massad Ayoob
Massad Ayoob owns and operates Massad Ayoob Group (massadayoobgroup.com), teaching thousands of students annually about practical shooting tactics and the many aspects of self-defense law. He has published thousands of articles in gun magazines, martial arts publications, and law enforcement journals, and authored more than a dozen books on firearms, self-defense, and related topics, including best sellers such as Deadly Force and Combat Shooting with Massad Ayoob.
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Gun Digest’s IDPA Gear & Concealed Carry Clothing eShort Collection - Massad Ayoob
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IDPA Gear & Concealed Carry Clothing
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Jack Webb, shown here checking his Colt Detective Special on an old Dragnet, set more fashion trends for CCW people than he probably ever knew.
The clothing you wear is obviously going to be critical to discretion and comfort when you are carrying a concealed weapon. It’s all a little more subtle than big coats hide more hardware easier than small coats.
First, it’s a given that concealed means concealed.
If only 5 percent of the gun is exposed, does that mean it’s 95 percent concealed? No, it means that if someone can see that you’re carrying a gun, even if only a small portion of the gun — or the gun’s distinctive outline — is visible, the gun is 100 percent exposed
and 0 percent concealed.
Here are a few random tips from 47 years of carrying a concealed handgun…
Author, (left, his Glock invisible in belly-band under tucked shirt), chats with Scott Jordan at SHOT Show about the Scott-E-Vest.
Jackets
Learn from LAPD. I hate to keep invoking Hollywood, but get some of the old videos of Jack Webb’s Dragnet series. You’ll note that most of the time, he’s wearing black slacks and a tweed sport coat. In the old days of poorly dyed holsters, black dye would wear off the leather and stain the trousers. It didn’t show up on black cloth. The solid hang
of relatively heavy tweed tended not to outline a holstered handgun, and its patterned appearance tended to break up printing
outlines of a gun beneath the fabric. We see a similar effect with untucked Hawaiian print shirts, checkered garments, etc. Unlike a typical shirt, a tweed or corduroy sport coat has enough substance to its material to often mask the strapping of a shoulder rig’s harness, too.
With more casual jackets, something like a plaid hunter’s coat works great. The black and red checks catch the eye, and divert attention from gun-shaped bulges.
You don’t need James Bond’s or Mike Hammer’s tailor to conceal your firearm.
Simply get the suitcoat or sport coat slightly larger, i.e, size 44 if you normally wear a size 42. You will get just enough more drape
to cover a good-size fighting pistol. You will appear to have gained a few pounds through the torso, but won’t look like a little boy wearing his daddy’s clothing. This is true of any gun-concealing outer garment, not just sport jackets or suit coats.
Leave the front of the suit coat or sport coat unfastened as much as possible. This will give a natural, concealing drape to the garment, and will allow the fastest access. With the garment closed in front, you’ll have to open it (or pull it up, difficult if not impossible in a garment whose hem falls as low as a sport coat’s). If the garment is fastened, fabric is pulled tightly over the gun and tends to outline it, in addition to the slower draw.
Outside pockets of sport jackets and suit coats are a lousy choice for pocket guns. They tend to bulge and sag obviously. Inside breast pockets are a little better, but they will constantly be bumping against