Open-top holster for revolver

摘要

An open-top holster for a revolver which affords maximum security for the gun and yet facilitates rapid withdrawal, but only by the wearer of the holster. The holster is strapped to the side of the wearer and includes a pocket socketing the barrel, the trigger assembly and the cylinder of the revolver, the grip being exposed above the pocket. Installed in the pocket is a catch piece formed from a resilient plastic plate having a sector which normally bulges out and intercepts the upper end of the cylinder when the revolver is fully inserted in the holster to prevent its unauthorized withdrawal. The sector is depressible, and in the course of revolver insertion, it is forced against the inner surface of the pocket of the cylinder to permit its full entry, at which point the sector springs out to intercept the upper end of the cylinder. The only way the gun can be drawn is for the wearer of the holster to depress the sector with the thumb of his gun hand to clear the cylinder.