Self-Defense Tip: Use a Retention Holster for Open Carry

By Robert Farago

On January 1, 2016, Texas becomes a [licensed] open carry state. Your humble correspondent will be exercising his natural, civil and Constitutionally protected right to keep and bear arms by bearing arms openly, where allowed. He will be doing so with a retention holster. That’s a holster that prevents a “gun grab.” Like this [via chicagotribune.com] . . .

A suspect in a domestic incident who was being treated at a Minnesota hospital grabbed a gun from a sheriff’s deputy and killed the officer early Sunday, prompting hospital security officers to subdue the suspect with a stun gun, authorities said . . .

The Aitkin County deputy killed was Steven Martin Sandberg, a 60-year-old investigator with the sheriff’s office. The suspect was identified as Danny Leroy Hammond, 50, who lived near the city of Aitkin.

On the face of it, this tragic tale doesn’t make any sense. I don’t know of a single police department that doesn’t use retention holsters: holsters that require at least one “extra” action to remove the firearm. So I called Aitkin County Sheriff Scott Turner. He told me that Deputy Sandberg was in plain clothes at the time of the murder and wasn’t using …Read the Rest

Source:: Truth About Guns