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Jon and Sarah Hauptman of PHLster Holsters
Episode 3

Jon and Sarah Hauptman of PHLster Holsters

Open Source Defense

December 19, 20241h 43m

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Show Notes

Jon and Sarah run PHLster Holsters, makers of the Enigma, other holsters, and groundbreaking education about how to carry comfortably.

Timeline:

  • 0:00 - The journey to making holsters
  • 7:58 - What was the need PHLster was responding to?
  • 17:34 - When did Sarah know the Enigma was going to be good?
  • 35:57 - How much of a breakthrough was the Enigma for PHLster?
  • 41:35 - Education and holster fitment as a science
  • 49:28 - What's wrong with telling people to dress around the gun
  • 58:13 - The importance of online communities
  • 1:08:52 - The dynamic around gun products marketed to women
  • 1:20:21 - Social media as a design and manufacturing tool
  • 1:29:48 - Nobody goes to the anti-gun range