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PoliceOne reader survey results: Off duty carry

Editor's Corner with PoliceOne Senior Editor Doug Wyllie

Throughout December 2008, PoliceOne asked our readers (in the P1 homepage poll) a series of five questions about off duty carry. Here are the results.

We were very pleased to see that two thirds of the LEOs who responded to our first question indicated that they always (43 percent) or usually (26 percent) carry off duty. Fewer than five percent of our members choose to never carry off duty.

Most P1 members choose to carry at the belt line while off duty.   Interestingly, the second question in our poll helps to also veryify the veracity of our initial results that about one in ten PoliceOne readers choose to rarely or never carry while off duty. 

The overwhelming majority of PoliceOne readers responding to part three of our poll say they carry a pistol, with only 10 percent of readers going with a wheel gun.

A full 40 percent of readers choose to carry a .40 cal, and in addition to the calibers we listed in part four of our survey, we heard from readers that they carry: .38 +p, .38 special, 340, and .357.

As we had expected, there were dozens of emails on this question, “Who makes your off duty gun?” from members who carry something other than a gun made by the five firearms manufacturers we were able to list on the site.

Among the most popular models that our readers emailed about were:

• Browning BDM 9mm
• Colt Lightweight .45 ACP
• Glock mod. 22
• H&K P2000
• Kahr Arms PM-9
• Kel-Tec PF9
• Kimber 1911
• Kimber Pro Carry .45 ACP
• Kimber Ultra Carry II
• Kimber Ultra Elite
• Les Baer, Thunder Ranch .45 ACP
• Paraordnance Carry 12 LDA .45ACP
• REMINGTON RAND 1911A1
• Ruger p97
• Springfield Armory Champion .45ACP
• Springfield XD .45 ACP
• Springfield XD .40
• Springfield XD 9mm
• Taurus model PT140
• Walther PPK/S

No matter what you carry, where you carry, we at PoliceOne want you to be safe, always.