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“When someone walks down the street in a button-down and khakis, the bad guy gets a glimmer of fear, wondering: are they packing or not?” said Allen Forkner, a spokesman for Woolrich, which started its concealed-carry line in 2010 with three shirts.
The company has since added new patterns for shirts, pants and the Elite Discreet Carry Twill jacket, in dark shale gray and dark wheat tan. In addition to its gun-friendly pockets, the jacket has a channel cut through the back that the company says can be used to store plastic handcuffs.
Not everyone who carries a concealed gun is a fan of the new fashion. Howard Walter, 61, a salesman at Wade’s Eastside Guns in Bellevue, Wash., said he preferred to carry his Colt — and a couple of knives and two extra magazines — in a durable pair of work pants.
“They don’t shout ‘gun,’ they shout ‘average guy in the street,’ ” said Mr. Walter, who years ago worked in sales at Nordstrom. But really, he said, the most important thing in picking clothing is to choose something that works for the weapon. “They should dress for the gun,” he said he advised his customers. “Not for the fashion.”
It terrifies me that people think it’s necessary to carry around that much weaponry. In their minds, there’s an apocalypse waiting around the corner, and if a few innocent people get killed because of their trigger fingers, big deal, right?
Also, the fact that they carry these things with them all the time, like when they, oh I don’t know, go to the bar to get drunk.
Thankfully all the bars around here have a strict no-guns policy. Don’t know how many people it stops, but it helps that statewide in Wisconsin, though it’s legal for someone carrying to walk into a bar (unless the bar has a policy posted prohibiting guns), it’s not legal for them to consume any alcohol while they are there.
Interestingly enough, part of the new law is that it’s legal for someone to carry a Taser. While I don’t particularly enjoy the thought of everyone around me being locked and loaded (regardless of what it does to crime states), I wouldn’t care if people were walking around with Tasers.
Sure — a bunch of people walking around Tasers could make things interesting at a frat party, but unless someone’s got a heart condition everyone’s walking out of there alive. Then when Mr. Saves-The-Day pulls his weapon on what it turns out was an innocent bystander, they’ll put the person down but won’t kill them. Very little harm, very little foul.
