I am firmly and devotedly in the Condition One camp………having said that, I readily admit that on those increasingly frequent occasions when I'm pocket-carrying (a G-43 or Shield in a Sticky holster in my strong-side front pocket), producing the gun is a slow enough process compared to holster-carry, that the additional time required to rack the slide would be irrelevant time wise. I practice concealed holster-carry drawing, but have been negligent in practicing pocket-carry drawing. I need to work on that.
If one believes that a pocket-carry gun is generally a back-up, and best designed for close encounter, bad-breath-contact-distance encounters, then the chances of the support hand being engaged deflecting blows, fighting off the adversary, makes the opportunity to rack the slide impossible. Yet another reason for Condition One carry (or carrying a J-frame).
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