How many options should I consider when deciding on a paddle holster?
We get tons of people walking in the door hear looking for a holster that they can use for their gun with a light attached to it. The majority of the time it’s the Surefire X300 or the Streamlight TLR-1, TLR-2 or sometimes the TLR-4 light. Every police department in our area has some variation of those light either on their AR15, G36 or their handguns. There are a lot of options out there for paddle holsters and in 2014 we will be bringing in more and more of the Fobus gun holsters and the Safariland holsters. One thing we’ve learned is if you don’t have a Glock, 1911 or a Sig 229, Sig 226 or Sig 220. You are going to be limited to customer kydex or a very few manufacturers.
We have a large number of customers that want something other than the Blackhawk Serpa and when it comes to light attachments, they are very limited. There are going to be big increase in the number of Safariland holsters in our inventory this year because so many CCW holders are using them because they are much sturdier than Fobus gun holsters. They are more expensive but I have yet to have someone walk in the door with a broken gun holster. Even the local State Police are buying our holsters because they have switched from the Glock 38 to the Glock 21 like many of our local Police have.