Appendix Carry Kills: AIWB is Spelled "WTFC"

A recent thread on a holster forum reminds me, that some folks fight, for the right, to carry AIWB. Often there will be a challenge, "name me one time someone has killed himself that way". "Dead man walking", I call it.

Well, here are MANY TIMES. And lots more of them when you Google the simple phrase 'shot in groin' although you'll also turn up stories about third parties shooting folks there. Here's one that's just arrived November 2024 (I see I haven't kept the date in the image):

One dumbass on a forum tried to tell us that because the article(s) don't mention a holster it doesn't count. BUT IT'S NOT THE HOLSTER THAT MAKES IT DANGEROUS, IT'S THE POSITION ON THE BODY! You all call it AIWB, I call it What the Fuck, are you Stupid!?

Read on:

And on:

And on:

And on:

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The above not enough to persuade you? Here are MORE, all of them this century:

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We're not Superman, we CANNOT dodge a speeding bullet (up to 1500 feet per SECOND in 9mm) that's holstered an inch or so from our groins!! So-called "appendix carry" is a 21st century thing carried over from pistol ranges.

Galco says wearing the pistol over your groin is PERFECTLY OK, which has the unfortunate effect of demonstrating that you, dear reader, are now smarter than your holster maker:

You will NOT be able to find a 20th century pistolero with their pistol holstered across their belly, which is what 'appendix' refers to today. Here's a 21st century view that's just NUTS!

To read more about it all in my book titled "Holstory -- Gunleather of the Twentieth Century

-- the Second Edition", click on the new link at top of page.