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Offline howards

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r9 carry question
« on: September 25, 2011, 02:25:15 PM »
having just received my new stealth r9 (which shoots great with speed gold dot 124 gr), i read the materials from rohrbaugh that came with the gun.  it states that a round should never be chambered until actually needed. it seems to me that defeats the entire purpose of a 9mm carry gun. i was wondering if any of the members have any thoughts regarding this suggestion, and what they are doing.  i would prefer to have the gun with a chamber in the round at all times for defensive carry. thanks.
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Re: r9 carry question
« Reply #1 on: September 25, 2011, 02:33:26 PM »
This has been discussed at great length here before and the consensus is one in the pipe, carried in a suitable holster of course. The factory must consider litigation potential in its carry recommendations.
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Re: r9 carry question
« Reply #2 on: September 25, 2011, 03:11:13 PM »
howards.  tracker is right on.  I don't think anyone here, will disagree with carrying ready to fire; just a legality for the company.
« Last Edit: September 25, 2011, 06:28:38 PM by kjtrains »
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Re: r9 carry question
« Reply #3 on: September 25, 2011, 03:29:31 PM »
If you carry with an empty chamber you may as well carry a hammer. ;D
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Re: r9 carry question
« Reply #4 on: September 25, 2011, 04:18:22 PM »
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If you carry with an empty chamber you may as well carry a hammer. ;D

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Re: r9 carry question
« Reply #5 on: September 25, 2011, 05:52:19 PM »
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If you carry with an empty chamber you may as well carry a hammer. ;D

Same reason I carry my .45 cocked and locked.
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Offline Giraffes

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Re: r9 carry question
« Reply #6 on: September 25, 2011, 09:40:55 PM »
I think Glock uses the term "ready for use" in their material which I prefer. I consider my firearms "in use" when they are being carried or in my nightstand for home defense. The only time they are not in use and do not have a round chambered is when they are stored in my safe. Either way, I would definitely keep a round chambered when you are carrying it.
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Re: r9 carry question
« Reply #7 on: September 26, 2011, 12:14:53 AM »
Nobody, since the old west anyway, ever even considers carrying four or five rounds in a wheelgun made for five or six.

So it always strikes me as odd when people are uncomfortable carrying a pistol with a "revolver-like" trigger loaded.

Witness, twenty years ago we went from .38 Specials with 12 lb. triggers to Glocks wih 12 lb. triggers, and suddenly people started to scream, "No Safeties!"

No model 10 I ever saw personally had a safety, and no one gave it one single second of hand-wringing.

I guess all those years of sliding around the back-back of a nine-passenger station wagon without a seat belt or a car seat left me safety-damaged.
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