I personally would carry in Condition 1. That is of course the way that I have trained, which is to have my thumb on the safety when I draw (ready to take it from "safe" to "off-safe" as part of the draw cycle).
This is the condition, if not drawn, which you should use if you are on the job and going into a potentially hazardous situation. If it conditioned you to a safe state of readiness, then that is an option. I think the difference is, citizens are not usually going toward danger. So I wonder if cocked and locked endows a dangerous mindset. If you're living in a combat zone, I'd say move to a safer city.
It is not the option I would recommend, at least to a newbie, for carry. If you practice it you can do the draw and rack with one bullet in the magazine, over and over until it's second nature. Then that could be a valid carry condition especially in guns with no safety.
Obviously, it depends on what you carry. There is no equivalent lock and load in (most) revolvers.
Interesting thread.
And if, for some reason, you only have the use of one hand? (e.g. carrying a child, preexisting/immediate injury, carrying groceries, etc.)
Personally, if I were not comfortable carrying chambered, I would get a different weapon and/or increase training rather than carry unchambered.
This is the condition, if not drawn, which you should use if you are on the job and going into a potentially hazardous situation. If it conditioned you to a safe state of readiness, then that is an option. I think the difference is, citizens are not usually going toward danger. So I wonder if cocked and locked endows a dangerous mindset. If you're living in a combat zone, I'd say move to a safer city.
It is not the option I would recommend, at least to a newbie, for carry. If you practice it you can do the draw and rack with one bullet in the magazine, over and over until it's second nature. Then that could be a valid carry condition especially in guns with no safety.
Obviously, it depends on what you carry. There is no equivalent lock and load in (most) revolvers.
Interesting thread.