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57Coastie wrote:For a little different slant on carrying in a car, I will offer up my example.

I live on the beach, and I almost never wear anything other than shorts and a T-shirt. Early on I learned that my carry weapons, an S&W Airweight .38 and an XD-40, could only be carried effectively concealed in my pocket. I use an Uncle Mike's "Sidekick" for each. The difficulty, if not danger, in attempting to get a handgun out of a standard front side pocket when you are seated (on it??) in your car has been pointed out above, more than once.

Quite by accident I discovered "SigTac" shorts in the Dillon catalogue, available here on the 'Net. They are hard to describe, but I will try. (Well, maybe not quite by accident, because I was admiring the artwork in the catalogue and stumbled upon the SigTacs.)

There are two deep pockets on both right and left, one right on top of the other. You cannot tell that there are two by casually seeing the shorts. The first pocket is as usual on any shorts, and is large enough to effectively conceal either of my carry weapons. The second pocket is accessible by an unobtrusive zipper into the pocket which is upright on your leg when seated. (So there -- I told you it is hard to describe -- maybe someone else familiar with SigTac can do a better job of it).

In any event, the pocket in the standard position makes draw convenient when standing, and, if you move your weapon to the second pocket when seated it is then convenient to draw without contorting yourself. The zipper on the "seated" pocket prevents the weapon from flying around in the car should you have an accident, but you can unzip the pocket in a millisecond to make your weapon quickly drawn.

These may not appeal to you, but they work for me. I have three pair of the shorts (a rather limited wardrobe, but quite adequate for a beach bum), and I have ordered a pair of the khaki pants for a trial just in case I have to go to a funeral (mine?) or a wedding (not mine) someday.

Jim