Virginia CCW options

mourneblade · September 12th, 2008, 10:32 PM

Since in Virginia a concealed carrier has to open carry in a restaurant that serves alcohol, is your best option to always use a holster since you can just expose it? I ask because in cold weather I would rather just carry in my jacket with a pocket holster. I can't think of a way to switch to open carry with the pocket holster though. Thanks...

JD · September 12th, 2008, 10:43 PM

Just get a cheap paddle holster or something and keep it in the car.

kohburn · September 12th, 2008, 10:43 PM

perhaps keep an OWB holster in the car that can easily clip to your belt when you know you are going into a place like that.

OhShoot · September 13th, 2008, 12:43 AM

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Originally Posted by mourneblade

Since in Virginia a concealed carrier has to open carry in a restaurant that serves alcohol, is your best option to always use a holster since you can just expose it? I ask because in cold weather I would rather just carry in my jacket with a pocket holster. I can't think of a way to switch to open carry with the pocket holster though. Thanks...

Just stick into the top of of your pants so it shows. Between pants and body. Side or front.

- OS

PaulG · September 13th, 2008, 12:20 PM

If I know that I'm going to such a restaurant and that I am not going to drink, I use my Galco Side Snap Scabbard from the get go.

That way I just take off the cover garment and am good to go.

If it is a last minute decision to go to the restaurant, I use the Galco paddle I keep in the car.

If I plan on drinking, the gun stays home. Needless to say, I don't drink much away from the house.

cmdrdredd · September 13th, 2008, 12:30 PM

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Originally Posted by PaulG

If I know that I'm going to such a restaurant and that I am not going to drink, I use my Galco Side Snap Scabbard from the get go.

That way I just take off the cover garment and am good to go.

If it is a last minute decision to go to the restaurant, I use the Galco paddle I keep in the car.

If I plan on drinking, the gun stays home. Needless to say, I don't drink much away from the house.

+100

Also if it were me, I'd just remove it before entering. Here in FL you can't even carry it into a place that sells alcohol to be consumed on the property afaik.

mourneblade · September 13th, 2008, 03:08 PM

I wasn't thinking so much about drinking as much as going to a restaurant and then a movie. The other day we went to a movie that finished pretty late, I was surprised to get sized up by several young guys hanging around the exit as my wife and I were leaving the theater to go to our car. That got me thinking that this might be a case for concealed carry in the future. I'm not a small guy, but you never know when someone is gonna take a chance on you.

Jackle1886 · September 13th, 2008, 03:44 PM

I will be traveling to VA in a few weeks, and the only difference from MI law that will affect me is the OC in a restaurant that sells liquor. So if I have either a IWB or OWB and just pull my cover garmet behind the handle, so it's visible, is that considered open?

OhShoot · September 13th, 2008, 04:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Jackle1886

I will be traveling to VA in a few weeks, and the only difference from MI law that will affect me is the OC in a restaurant that sells liquor. So if I have either a IWB or OWB and just pull my cover garmet behind the handle, so it's visible, is that considered open?

Yes.
As long as at least grip is visible (in "open", not just "printing"), you are open carrying.

- OS

SIGguy229 · September 13th, 2008, 07:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jackle1886

I will be traveling to VA in a few weeks, and the only difference from MI law that will affect me is the OC in a restaurant that sells liquor. So if I have either a IWB or OWB and just pull my cover garmet behind the handle, so it's visible, is that considered open?

For re-emphasis: Yes. Also known as the "Virginia tuck"...and is how I carried for about a year until I got a Blackhawk SERPA

September 12th, 2008, 10:32 PM	#1
mourneblade Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Northern VA Posts: 18	Virginia CCW options Since in Virginia a concealed carrier has to open carry in a restaurant that serves alcohol, is your best option to always use a holster since you can just expose it? I ask because in cold weather I would rather just carry in my jacket with a pocket holster. I can't think of a way to switch to open carry with the pocket holster though. Thanks...

September 12th, 2008, 10:43 PM	#2
JD Senior Moderator Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Central Iowa Posts: 11,640	Just get a cheap paddle holster or something and keep it in the car. __________________ Some Things Need to be Addressed... Iowa Carry.ORG: Promoting Weapons Carry Reform in Iowa Forum Customs & Courtesies

September 12th, 2008, 10:43 PM	#3
kohburn Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Lusby, MD Posts: 210	perhaps keep an OWB holster in the car that can easily clip to your belt when you know you are going into a place like that. __________________ "An armed society is a polite society" - Robert A. Heinlein

September 13th, 2008, 12:20 PM	#5
PaulG Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Fairfax, VA Posts: 1,127	If I know that I'm going to such a restaurant and that I am not going to drink, I use my Galco Side Snap Scabbard from the get go. That way I just take off the cover garment and am good to go. If it is a last minute decision to go to the restaurant, I use the Galco paddle I keep in the car. If I plan on drinking, the gun stays home. Needless to say, I don't drink much away from the house. __________________ fortiter in re, suaviter in modo (resolutely in action, gently in manner).

September 13th, 2008, 03:44 PM	#8
Jackle1886 Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Kendall, MI Posts: 709	I will be traveling to VA in a few weeks, and the only difference from MI law that will affect me is the OC in a restaurant that sells liquor. So if I have either a IWB or OWB and just pull my cover garmet behind the handle, so it's visible, is that considered open? __________________ Better to die on your feet, than to live on your knees.

September 13th, 2008, 03:08 PM	#7
mourneblade Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Northern VA Posts: 18	I wasn't thinking so much about drinking as much as going to a restaurant and then a movie. The other day we went to a movie that finished pretty late, I was surprised to get sized up by several young guys hanging around the exit as my wife and I were leaving the theater to go to our car. That got me thinking that this might be a case for concealed carry in the future. I'm not a small guy, but you never know when someone is gonna take a chance on you.

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