Wow, what a pretentious phrase! Condition 3 means carrying your firearm without a bullet in the chamber but with a full magazine. This is perfectly viable as long as you have both hands free. Imagine a case where you end up in a scuffle and are holding off your attacker with one hand. You can draw your firearm, but how are you going to shoot it? Some fancy maneuver where you catch the rear sight on your holster and rack the slide one handed? It could work, maybe. Lots of people practice it for when one of their arms in injured Condition 3 is great for people that are not ready to have a loaded gun on their belt. Either because they don't trust their holster yet or mentally they just need more time.
The biggest proponent of condition 3 carry? The military. Their threat environment is very different than a civilain or a police officer. Let's review:
1. In a base.
2. With armed soldiers on the wall.
3. Overhead air support.
4. Lots of noncombat speciality people running around that are supposed to have a gun but probably haven't shot one since basic training.
Loaded firearms in this environment just don't make sense. The guys on the wall are going to take the immediate threat giving the rest of the base lots of time to arm up. In short the threat of somebody mishandling a firearm is a far more likely than the threat of getting into an fire fight.
Of course if I had a rifle platoon taking care of my perimeter security I wouldn't need a loaded gun either.
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