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Handgun holster with trigger guard restraint

  • US 5,100,036 A
  • Filed: 03/06/1991
  • Issued: 03/31/1992
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/06/1991
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. In a handgun holster adapted to permit withdrawal of a handgun having a trigger guard from said holster by a generally vertical upward movement of a handgun, said holster having with respect to a wearer an inner wall, an outer wall, a front, a back, a top, a bottom, an inside, an outside, and a means for suspending said holster from a belt worn by a wearer, the improvement which comprises a handgun restraining device attached to said inside of said holster at said back adjacent said top, said restraining device being an elongated article having a solid rigid body portion and two upwardly extending vertical side wall members attached to opposite sides respectively of said body portion and having upper free ends, said side walls and said body portion forming a channel adapted to receive and seat therein a trigger guard of a handgun, said upper free ends each including a spring biased cam-shaped restraining member having two lobes and pivotable about an axis passing therebetween, one said lobe being biased to extend inwardly into said channel when the holster is empty and to be pushed outwardly into a cavity in said side wall when the trigger guard is seated in said channel, and another said lobe being biased to be retracted into said cavity of said side wall when the holster is empty and to extend inwardly of the trigger guard when the trigger guard is seated in the channel.

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