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The necessity to be able to fight in and around vehicles is a binding thread that’s shared by military, police and civilian operators alike. The automobile in America has become the very symbol of our freedom and the mobile nature of our society. We all either drive or are passengers in vehicles for hundreds if not thousands of hours every year, but rarely do we ever train to fight in and around the confines of what is such a peculiar environment.
Part of that environment that is so peculiar is the physical posture we find ourselves in that is so different from how we normally train. I’m referring to the seated position. How many times have you had the opportunity to drive your car to the firing line and practice shooting from the draw, while seated and buckled in? There are a few problems we need to work through to practice this smoothly, but there’s no problem that can’t be solved.
When you can…cheat. A .45acp weighs on average 230 grains or 0.032857lbs. The average car in America weighs 3,000-4,000lbs or 13999980.555 grains. So if you’re attacked while in a running vehicle, run the bad guy over with the car. Now let’s move on to when you can’t run over the bad guy.
I carry everywhere I go and almost always in an appendix holster, specifically an Archangel holster. Quite frankly the best holster to draw from while seated and buckled. Wearing the seatbelt does have a tendency to interfere with pistol carry; however, it does me no good to die in a car crash on my way to a gunfight, because I didn’t wear my seatbelt. Like I said, there’s no problem that can’t be fixed.
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