How Modular Holsters Save You Money

There's a common problem with everyday carry — the holster drawer.

Gun owners typically carry with a holster in one of several carry styles and generally shop around, testing out gear until they find something that fits their needs in each carry style they prefer.

These costs add up with each singular holster in each new carry style, which is an issue modular holsters solve.

Here's how.

The ShapeShift Modular Holster reduces the cost of entry for open and concealed carry.

Gun owners, new and experienced, will find there are multiple materials holsters are made out of that contribute to the cost, comfort and quality of an individual carry style.

Note, however, that each carry style normally requires purchasing an entirely new product.

Trying out inside-the-waistband concealed carry? That's a purchase.

Outside-the-waistband open carry? Another separate purchase.

Ankle carry for a backup subcompact? Crack open that wallet again.

The ShapeShift Modular Holster System reduces the cost of purchasing equipment for separate carry styles due to the injection-molded, polymer Shift Shell.

This encloses the handgun's trigger guard and slide with a single unit. That component is then added to the holster designed and engineered for a specific carry style.

It's an innovative process that took Alien Gear years of prototyping each individual holster and immense investment in machinery and tooling to make it possible — note that all of this is on American soil.

These are ankle, pocket, shoulder and backpack holsters. There is even a car holster that will soon be released.

This brings up an important point.

Modular holsters offer a safety net for both new and experienced gun owners: buy a holster you know will work, and then purchase the few materials needed for a carry style you want to try.

Not a fan of that new carry style? No worries. Alien Gear has a 30-day test drive policy, wherein the customer can send back the holster materials and receive a refund with no questions asked.

Aside from trying out new carry styles at low cost with minimal risk, modular holsters help simplify situational issues with everyday carry.

For example, in less than a minute one can go from open to concealed carry with differently configured ShapeShift Modular Holsters, should there be a geographical or location-based restriction.

This system isn't one holster for one carry style, which has been the industry standard.

All of this indicates the next change in the industry. Kydex shells are yesterday's holster.

Forget modular holsters for a minute. Look around. Most items are changing in a specific way.

One simple example:

Mobile phones are built to accept individual units of software to personalize and improve their utility — i.e. apps like social media and maps.

Phones at one point were siloed to rotary landlines. They operated in only one way with minimal alterations to their form factor or functionality.

In time, mobility was introduced to telecommunications with payphones and later with those bricks that vaguely resembled mobile phones.

Holsters are like phones in that way. They advanced from general usability for a wide audience with a basic form factor to a highly individualized item made based on who is carrying it and why.

The industry standard single holster with a single function that fits a single way has worked for decades, but it means the average carrier has had to compromise.

Change for the sake of improving an entire industry was the catalyst for Alien Gear's search for an innovative way to carry.

Modularity is at the forefront of the gun industry. It's not a fad or a fun, little idea. It's the next step, and someone has to take it.