"Carry a gun" ngram frequency: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=carry+a+gun&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=3&direct_url=t1%3B%2

"Carry a gun" ngram frequency: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=carry+a+gun&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=3&direct_url=t1%3B%2Ccarry%20a%20gun%3B%2Cc0#t1%3B%2Ccarry%20a%20gun%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=carry+a+gun&ye... "Wear a gun": https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=wear+a+gun&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=3&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cwear%20a%20gun%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=wear+a+gun&yea... Shorter: "Carry" is about twice as popular as "wear".