We can sometimes see the police on the street with a gun on duty, most of their guns are handguns and are placed in the waist inside the holster, but the TV news special forces are often the pistol is mounted on the thigh of the convenience of quick-draw holster. Why is this? What is the difference between the waist and the thigh? For special forces the thigh is an out of the way and easy place to draw.
Police pistols are usually placed in the waist holster
For the police, the pistol is often his main armament, because the police face few criminals really vicious gun crime, so the pistol is completely enough, and the waist is a very convenient location to draw the gun, the hand touched to the hand. Police often tend to be law enforcement, patrol and other tasks, and equipment will not be a lot, only the necessary communications equipment, pistols, batons, handcuffs and other such items. For the sake of convenience, these items are often integrated into a belt, easy to wear, so at this time the pistol is also only the waist this position can be placed. Of course, nothing is absolute, some police officers will also choose to armpit holster, leg holster, etc., plainclothes will be more convenient to perform the task.
Police usually store the pistol in the waist holster, is to let people see, I have a pistol, you can take it easy, don't mess around, even if you want to break the law, have played a deterrent and stop the role of crime. Therefore, the police will pistol in the waist, seems very appropriate, both take the gun convenient, but also very conspicuous, so that there are crimes criminals, see the extreme time to close, ah have a pistol, can not afford to mess with, can only hide and then say.
Special forces but on the outside of the thigh
Special forces of the main weapon is not a pistol, but an assault rifle, pistol is only in the former malfunction damage or no ammunition before pulling out the use of subweapons, and his waist will also be occupied by a variety of combat gear such as body armor bullet belts and so on, if you still put the pistol on the waist the whole person will look very bloated, and do a variety of tactical movements will also be affected. The first thing you need to do is to make sure that you have a good understanding of what you're doing and how you're going to do it.
Since the waist can not be put on the thighs. In fact, equipped with a fast-drawing device draw speed is not slower than from the waist to draw the gun, trained special forces may even be faster. It is because the pistol is less important than other weapons, so it is placed on the thigh holster. Such a configuration can be said to be a good setup for both combat and carry, and of course there are those who choose to mount it on the chest position of their tactical undershirts, both of which are easy to draw.
Of course, the position of the pistol holster requirements are not set in stone, many members of the Special Forces also like to use the armpit holster or chest holster, and some foreign police officers also have to use the leg holster, so this issue is the mission characteristics and personal habits **** with the decision.