What Sweat Does To Your Concealed Carry Handgun

By CN Staff

If you make the daily habit of carrying a concealed handgun, it’s very likely your gun and holster gets soaked in sweat. On the daily, it’s really not much of a serious consideration. However, we should take a look at what sweat can do to a concealed carry handgun — both superficially and otherwise.

Sweat is comprised of mostly water with some trace amounts of urea, ammonia, and salts. If you look inside the brim of an old hat you wear all the time, it’ll have a crust of these things. After the water evaporates out, you’re left with that on the fabric alongside some bacteria, dirt, and other things.

The same basic residue can build up on your gun. If you carry with the same holster and same gun, day after day, week after week, you may notice a build-up crust of dried salts. Salt is corrosive to metal parts. Mixed with water, you end up with salty water that can eat away and oxidize the metal springs and pieces within a gun.

This isn’t going to happen the first time you sweat heavily. In fact, you could go quite awhile before any noticeable degradation takes place. But water, when it evaporates, …Read the Rest

Source:: Concealed Nation