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Fake as fuck. Cop’s holsters have locks that require more interaction than a plastic Dino grabber can provide.
Yeah, but they never use them, how else are you going to headshot a grandma in her kitchen before your partner reacts?
You could use her kitchen gun.
BANG! BANG! BANG!
Reminder that the partner was rocking "Nordic Runes" and didn't tell him not to murder the lady, he told him his camera was on.
What does that have to do with a retention holster design?
Also, yes, fake story. Mugshot is clipped from a real and very different case.
I agree. I would expect any service holster to at least have some kind of a mechanical lock to prevent theft or an accidental drop of a gun.
I have a cheap plastic holster that requires a button press with your index finger. You can do this while grabbing the handle and starting to pull the gun. When completely pulled out, your finger is then aligned near to the trigger for quick response times. That’s the system I expect a modern police to have. It’s really difficult to take the gun out when you’re not pulling from above from a natural position.
I know the cops in the US have a very bad reputation but this can’t be true.
Like not just cops' but arent most holsters with saftey features built to be difficult for anyone but the wearer to access smoothly?
I'm not an enthusiast or anything and could be wrong, just an impression I've gotten over the years.
Most are actually just two pieces of leather with an optimistic outline of a pistol stamped into one side. No special devices at all.
I'm sure some cops somewhere still do that, but I can't remember the last time I saw a uniformed patrol officer not using some kind of retention holster. Even the old fashion leather holsters had thumbsnaps every time I've seen them for the kind of role.
A duty holster will have a retention lock of some kind, usually a thumblock or button. Thats what you'd expect a uniformed patrol officer to use on a belt kit. A detective or some other LEO that wears more business casual clothes or formal clothes will more likely to have a holster without a retention, but they aren't normally making traffic stops.
Not really worth a deep dive since the story is made up in the first place.