Patent ID: 8752741

Claim:
A method to carry and use a self-loading pistol, comprising the steps of: providing a holster comprising a base; a barrel housing assembly fixedly attached to said base, and a moveable trigger housing mechanism slidably disposed on said base, wherein said trigger housing mechanism can be slidingly moved bidirectionally between a first position and a second position, wherein said moveable trigger housing mechanism is disposed in said first position; providing a self-loading pistol comprising a trigger, a barrel, a firing chamber, a moveable slide mechanism, a grip, and one or more rounds disposed in said grip, wherein said moveable slide mechanism can be slidingly moved between a first position and a second position, wherein said slide mechanism is disposed in said first position, and wherein one of said one or more rounds is loaded into said firing chamber when said moveable slide mechanism is moved to said second position; removeably disposing said self-loading pistol in said holster such that said trigger is removeably inserted into said moveable trigger housing mechanism, and such that said barrel is removeably inserted into said barrel housing assembly, wherein said self-loading pistol does not have a round in the firing chamber, and wherein said self-loading pistol without a round in the firing chamber can be removed from said holster without moving said moveable trigger housing mechanism; sliding said moveable trigger housing mechanism from said first position to said second position thereby moving said moveable slide mechanism from said first position to said second position; loading one of said one or more rounds into said firing chamber; removing said self-loading pistol from said holster.