January 4, 2023, Castle Rock, CO – Vets Tactical, a leading innovator in firearm accessories, is excited to introduce its patent-pending Cupolster® vehicle cup holder holster at their inaugural exhibit during the 2024 NSSF® SHOT Show in Las Vegas, NV, from January 21 to 26 in booth #43952. Precisely engineered with an ergonomic cant, the innovative Cupolster BRAVO SERIES by Vets Tactical vehicle holster raises the bar for swift firearm access and user comfort within a vehicle.
Vets Tactical CEO Craig Washburn describes Cupolster’s transformative potential. “Its design, positioning, and angle create a strategic staging area for your handgun, facilitating swift and efficient retrieval from your vehicle’s existing cup holder. When seconds matter most, your sidearm is easily accessible without hindering your field of view. Say goodbye to awkward bending or reaching—your firearm is right at your fingertips, ready to defend you and your loved ones.”
Washburn explained the convenience of customization without the need for adhesives or screws, “Customize your vehicle’s cup holder with our sizing tools. No need to worry about permanent alterations to your car’s interior—pop it in, and it securely stays in place. Plus, it’s easily transferable between vehicles,” he said. To address in-vehicle safety, the ambidextrous Cupolster BRAVO SERIES features a fully covered trigger guard allowing cross-draw positioning adapted to right or left-handed drivers and front-seat passengers.
Acknowledging the discomfort of driving with traditional holsters, Washburn added, “Whether IWB or OWB, driving with a holstered firearm can be uncomfortable. The Cupolster addresses that issue, providing a seamless and efficient solution for firearm carry within vehicles.”
Cupolster BRAVO SERIES Vehicle Holster Features
• Swift and ergonomic access: The 20-degree cant optimizes the holster’s position in vehicle cup holsters, providing unparalleled accessibility and an ergonomic fit for swift handgun access.
• Universal compatibility: The BRAVO SERIES offers versatility for a wide range of firearm sizes.
• Customized fit: Each Cupolster includes a magnet and sizing accessories, allowing users to tailor the fit to their specific cup holder.
• Easy installation: No tools, screws, or glue required.
• Adaptable: Enhance compatibility with smaller vehicle cup holders using the CHARLIE ALPHA Cup Adapter (sold separately), expanding the Cupolster’s adaptability across many vehicles.
• Ambidextrous: Can be configured for cross-draw positioning, catering to right and left-handed users.
• Four options: Different sizes ensure the perfect fit for specific handguns.
• BRAVO ONE: Fits most large to medium-framed semi-auto handguns with slide widths up to 1.05”
• BRAVO ONE LIMA: Designed for handguns with attached Streamlight TLR-1, TLR-7, Surefire 300x, Olight Valkyrie, and similar structured lights with slide widths up to 1.05”
• BRAVO ONE MICRO: For smaller framed semi-auto, micro, compact, and subcompact handguns with slide widths up to .88”
• BRAVO ONE XL: Ideal for extra-large-framed handguns with slide widths from 1.06” to 1.25”
• MSRP: $69.95
Check your local and state laws for vehicle firearms transport regulations.
Click here to make an appointment with Vets Tactical CEO Craig Washburn during the 2024 SHOT Show. To see the entire Cupolster assortment, visit SHOT Show booth #43952 or the New Product Center on Level 1 of the Venetian Expo to see the Cupolster BRAVO SERIES by Vets Tactical.
There’s something incredibly stupid every SHOT show, this must be 2024’s contribution. Since this will primarily be purchased by neckbearded boomers, perhaps target your advertising on Fox News with the ED medication and 9/11 Commemorative gold coins.
This is just a way for people to flex their sick ass EAA single stack 1911s with the holosun on em. Those poor people who are forced to ride in the passenger seats of the Tacoma have to wait while the driver un-holsters and shoves a gun in the cup holder holster that’s going to immediately send the police man into cardiac arrest when he jas to pull them over for DUI. I’m not just trying to be mean here but we should absolutely never be using our vehicles as holsters…….especially like this.
I had to check the date.
That said, this product looks slightly more refined and hopefully safer than other options/products out there.
Was it Ed Mireles in the Miami FBI shootout who lost his handgun in a traffic collision? Believe he tucked it under his right leg, but it wasn’t there when the shooting started. There’s a very narrow use case…
No, it wasn’t Ed Mireles that was another Agent. Mireles ended the fight shooting a Remington 870 one handed, left handed (he is right handed) after being shot in his right arm. Who trains doing that?
Oh, boy. Perhaps there is some niche application for people doing protection details, but for the rest of us average citizens… repeat after me: a car is not a holster. Sticking a gun in something like this means having to move the gun to an on-body holster every time one is going to exit the vehicle, and the more gunhandling one does, the more opportunity there is for a negligent discharge. Alternatively, if one has a dedicated car gun sitting in one of these, one still must secure that gun somewhere every time they leave the vehicle unattended. This just seems like a bad idea all around. For me, I’ll continue to keep my gun in a quality holster on my person.
I hope this company folds.
if this would be useful for you, within admittedly narrow perimeters, pretty sweet option. Would have put this on the gov card a while ago.. If not, perhaps shut your meat holster.
I can’t wait to see the social media posts from car mechanics having to deal with the resulting idiocy due to this moronic product.
Muddd. My meat holster would do an infinitely better job at…whatever this mall ninja bullshit is trying to do. You and your gov card are the reason people think this shit is a good idea. This was a product designed with one purpose in mind, separate stupid people from their money……Or get their gov card taken away by someone with sense. The second one of those options is preferred, but both are still funny. My meat holster will still hold the absolutely game changing EAA single stack 9mm 1911 WITH OPTICS COMPATIBILITY AND A RAIL. MUDDD IT HAS A RAIL! better than this.
all products are designed to separate people from their money… great insight
truly stupid and unsafe products people seem to love are the bump stock, binary triggers, and the faux full auto variety.
I have no doubt your meat holster will easily handle a desert eagle 44 mag w/o gagging. Perhaps your wannabe beard stops the gag reflex when the sweaty ball trigger guard indexes off your chin.
Muddd. Did you forget they make a .50cal desert eagle? Why would I stop at the 44mag version? My wanna be beard knows better than to get in the way of me stuffing things in my mouth either way. AND HEY! Don’t bring my bump stock into this! I bought it on my gov card! cause they won’t let me have a legit automatic weapon no more. But seriously, why you mad that I’m calling this stupid thing stupid? Did you make this and we hurt your feelings? Did your wife’s boyfriend think it’s cool when he saw the picture of the cupoholster, and now you gotta white knight him before she don’t let you sleep at the foot of the bed? Now………did I tell you about the eaa single stack 9mm 1911? That had a rail and is optics compatible? I just learned about it and how it’s a game changer for the firearms industry. If I did tell you about it, ima need you to go tell your wife’s boyfriend so he and I can buy matching ones.
Didn’t mention the .50 out of reverence for JMB. However, I do understand that O rings stretch and you will need new stimuli. Proud of you, you are def not a small thinker.
This widget offers a possibility of concealment, and accessibility, non-permanent mount in whatever vehicle.
I was considering getting one.. for the door cup holder where it wouldn’t be visible, for comfort reasons on long drives.. and one for a buddy who still does LE surveillance but geez what do I know, only had to fumble fxxk and shoot through my vehicle once.
Great tip on the railed 1911! With your vast and gaping experience, I will defer to your expertise on 9mm’s ribbed for pleasure.
Seems no one here appreciates “unparalleled accessibility and an ergonomic fit for swift handgun access” for only $69.95. When does the molle CACA release?
This needs a little refinement… Ah an airpressure release,to give you a jumpstart to give you THE tactical advantage!
For the trained it wont be a problem to catch the 44. 4inch barrel evolver midair!
I can hear labored mouth-breathing of the 350lb 1911-carrying Boomer this is marketed towards through my screen.
This is also known as the “Getting shot at a traffic stop”, starter kit.
This is stupid as all get out.
BUT.
Being realistic, this acknowledges the way that 99% of the carrying public carries handguns; in the center console or cup holder of their vehicle, or wedged in or under a seat, very rarely in a holster. No exaggerating in the slightest, either. On body carry in a holster is exceedingly rare, and in my city/county, 10% of the adult population has an LTC and we have permit less carry these days too.
So, this is probably safer than that, and has the added benefit of MAYBE getting people to actually secure their weapons when they get out of their vehicles, because it is so in your face. And guns stolen from cars are probably about 95% of the stolen guns, at least around here.
Or maybe not. But somebody ought to make money off it, and if its stupid but you make money, then its not that stupid.
This is by far the most rational response to this product.
Your vehicle is not a holster.
This is to place the firearm in while you’re driving/sitting in your car, not for keeping it inside your car when you leave! It’s generally difficult and slow to draw from a car seat especially buckled and this is a professional solution to that.
While I can throw my CCW holster in a cupholder and do pretty much the same thing, this would stay put if you hit something, which would be of value to close protection or anyone else expecting some aggressive driving. This still does require a reholster, but I like to take my holster off my body whenever I do that which makes it far safer.
Kinda of a sweeping generalization to state it’s difficult to draw while seated and seatbelted into a car. For traditional behind-the-hip carry, this may be true; however, for appendix carry folks, there’s not much to it, especially if one makes it a habit to stage their cover garment by pulling their shirt out so that it rests on top of the lap belt portion of the seatbelt. This allows you to simply lift the shirt and draw from the holster the same as if standing, and without the seatbelt fouling the draw.
Sticking one’s handgun in this holster means you now have an additional carry position to practice drawing from, in addition to however you carry on-body. Considering how little most folks practice to begin with, I’m betting not much time is going to be devoted to getting reps drawing from something like this.
And then let’s talk about the danger factor associated with transferring one’s gun from the car holster to their on-body holster. How do you do it? While seated? As an appendix carry guy. I’m staunchly opposed to holstering while seated, because the gun IS pointed directly at my important bits. This is something I can mitigate while standing by dropping my strong side leg back and bowing my pelvis slightly forward so the bottom of the holster (and therefore the muzzle of the gun) is angled away from my body, ensuring an ND or AD results in a round striking the ground a foot or two in front of me, not hitting something important. If I’m going to holster in the safest manner possible, that means doing it while standing, which means I’m getting out of the car and doing this where, in a parking lot, hoping nobody sees me with gun in hand? And even then, I’m a proponent of limiting the amount of administrative gunhandling one does, as the more often one handles a loaded gun, the more opportunity there is for a negligent discharge. Even if one uses the method you described with removing your carry holster before transferring a gun from that holster to the car holster and vice versa, I argue that there is still less risk involved in loading a gun, sticking it in a holster, and leaving it there than there is in frequently moving a loaded gun from one holster to another.
Finally, let’s look at how often civilians are getting in gunfights (rare) and how often civilians are getting in gunfights while inside their car (even rarer). There might be that incredible confluence of events where someone’s car is disabled or blocked by other vehicles and the only option is to shoot from inside the car, but I think the odds are better that driving away is an option and is almost certainly the better choice than shooting through auto glass and dealing with the associated and potentially unpredictable deflection of point of impact, no matter how cool shooting through a windshield looks on YouTube. To that point, how many people are attending training courses that allow them to shoot through glass?
As I said in my initial response, I can see some niche use case for this in an executive protection setting where someone is driving professionally and might actually devote some training time to drawing from a holster like this (and potentially having a dedicated gun for this holster in addition to one on-body). However, for the overwhelming majority of average people like me, I argue that we are a lot better off having a quality concealment holster and keeping the gun on-body, as it is safer, allows for drawing from a consistent location, ensures the gun is already on your person if you need to bail out from the vehicle quickly, and avoids any state-specific potential violations of open carry laws.
Wow. The hatred and opinions spewed above by all the instant experts is pretty amazing. Having talked to many CCW folks who keep their weapon in the glove box or center console, or use a magnet under the dash, this seems like an improvement. If you carry right hand at 3 o’clock then your weapon is under the seatbelt. Very handy right? Oh, 5-6 o’clock you say? Even better. If you carry and decide that the only time you won’t need your weapon is while you are in your car, then store it in the trunk. You’ll be absolutely safe then. Sarc!
Since armed carjackings have increased dramatically – depending on where you live – perhaps it’s not a bad idea to have your defense close by, and not be under your seatbelt, or worse.