A Reddit user said the scare happened while he was driving with an appendix setup that had started rubbing him the wrong way and leaving a bruise. He wrote that he used his forearm against the bottom of the grip to make a small adjustment, something he said he had done plenty of times before without a problem. This time, though, the gun popped partly out of the holster instead of just shifting position.
That was when he realized how bad the moment could have gotten. He said his overshirt slipped into the trigger guard as the pistol came up, and he described it as a full “come to Jesus moment” in the driver’s seat. According to the post, he immediately pulled both shirts away from the gun, took the pistol fully out of the holster, and dropped it into the cup holder until he could get home. He later clarified that there was no negligent discharge, but the trigger guard was exposed and the shirt tail really had gotten inside it.
He said he had been carrying for 22 years and had never had a gun come out of the holster unintentionally before. In the comments, he explained that the pistol was a Sig P365 XMacro in a T-Rex holster with retention based on the trigger guard. He also admitted he had not been checking the retention the way he should have. When one commenter said holsters need regular maintenance and carriers should be checking retention, screw tightness, and the trigger-guard area, the poster answered plainly that they were right and that he had gotten stupid and failed to check.
Other comments focused on what he did in the car right before it happened. One person said this was exactly why they always adjust the holster, never the gun itself, and the poster agreed that was good advice. The discussion also turned into a broader conversation about appendix carry in vehicles, seat belts crossing over the gun and holster, and how easy it is to get too comfortable with routines that seem harmless until one bad second proves otherwise.
By the end, he said he tightened the retention down as far as it would go once he got home and took the whole incident as a warning to be more careful about every part of safe gun handling. He did not try to make it sound smaller than it was. He told it like a near-miss that could have turned out much worse if that shirt tail had gone a little farther at the wrong moment.
What do you think — would a scare like this make you stop adjusting anything while seated in the car, or would it mostly make you rethink how often you check your holster setup?
Original Reddit post: AIWB ND close call as I was driving
