When do you need a retention holster?
There are so many guns out there and holsters that it is very common for people to waste money buying things that they don’t need and then it sits in a gun safe or a box in the closet. Training is more important than firearm selection and many of my friends got in the habit of thinking that if they needed a self defense firearm they should buy something expensive. There is nothing wrong with carrying a j-frame revolver and all the craze about .380’s in recent years is really just marketing. Ballistics of a .380 are very low and this is not a very powerful round although there has been some improvement lately.
When it comes to holsters, you don’t need to spend $100 on a holster for it to give you some stealth advantage over your enemies. We sell a lot of Blackhawk Serpa holsters to law enforcement but I shy away from pushing these for CCW. There have been many times that I have had customer walk into my store and have a firearm with a light on it and none of the holsters that they originally came in looking for worked for them. There have been many times that they picked up an Elite Survival Systems holster because there was more adaptability with their designs for lights and lasers.