What's your go-to Concealed Carry weapon?

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Rushie said:
One of the problems evaluating whether carrying a gun pays is you never hear about all the times it saves people but no one got shot. My brother was approached in a lonely parking lot by three men pretty obviously bent on robbing him or worse. They were flanking him when a breeze halfway blew his jacket open so he went ahead and pushed it all the way back revealing the handgun on his hip. They saw it, stopped dead in their tracks, got back in their car and left. No words spoken, no one hurt. He didn’t even draw.

You will never hear about stuff like this on the news but it happens all the time. Even just having conceal carry in an area seems to lower crime because criminals know there is a chance a would be victim is armed. So when people talk about comparing handgun accidents to handgun saves the data is pretty skewed.
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Virtually exactly what happened to me circa 1991 at the Elk Heights rest stop at 1 am in WA State on the way back from a camping fishing trip out east. The presence of my Colt 1911 (a Combat Elite) was enough to make them realize they didn't have a potential victim. This was an era before cell phones but I dialed 911 on the pay phone and the State Troopers arrived before these guys were able to depart, I may have encourage them to hang around, and all three had outstanding warrants for assault.

Living in MD legal concealed carry is very rare but Baltimore has one of the highest percapita murder rates in the country because well, criminals. If I had need to go down there I'd carry regardless. With what I have now I'd carry a Sig M9. It's what I carried in my USN days and I shoot it pretty well.
 
aterry1067 said:
454 Casull, extended barrel. I keep it in my sock.
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Yeah, it's a 50 caliber. They used to use it to hunt buffalo with... up close! It's only legal in two states. And this isn't one of them.

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Okay, where did you even find a place to *carry* that?
 
Why I carry 24/7.

While I don't live in a bad area, I still carry when on my property and in my house.

What I fear is that one person, that one determined individual fueled by rage, drugs or whatever that has decided to cause harm or to take out as many others as possible before that person is deactivated. And that can happen anywhere, any time to anybody.

And twice there has been a mountain lion on my property. We only saw tracks and not the actual animal. One set of tracks were on the front porch in the snow, and the other set were in the mud in the back yard, inside my 6 foot privacy fence.
 
It’s more often the case I have to back her off some, my pistol is in the safe. It could easily change tomorrow, just saying. I’m not trying to amp her up any. It’s any easy way to get beyond any CC restrictions.

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^^^^Thats a brand with one of the highest rates of negligent discharge.
 
Most often it’s the trigger, safety system, & the method of carry, safety stats. Not shooting your self is about the highest priority.
 
Rushie said:
The problem with that logic is the same as the people who say, "When I was a kid we rode bikes on the highways with no helmet and I survived." Those who didn't survive aren't around so it's not statistically relevant that you survived unscathed.
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So by your “logic”, risk assessment and management is useless. We should all fly airplanes with parachutes. Sorry, doesn’t wash.
 
Rushie said:
And TV and movies. Nearly 100% of scenes with guns display terribly unsafe gun handling and this is what kids grow up seeing.
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Yes, and conversely, when the cowpokes came to Dodge City, Errol Flynn relieved them of their weapon before they went to the saloon. As though it made all the sense in the world! Concealed Carry was not at play!
 
Sondavid said:
So by your “logic”, risk assessment and management is useless. We should all fly airplanes with parachutes. Sorry, doesn’t wash.
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Why are you here? Think that you’re gonna change my mind? Just Gums flapping in the breeze
 
Sondavid said:
Yes, and conversely, when the cowpokes came to Dodge City, Errol Flynn relieved them of their weapon before they went to the saloon. As though it made all the sense in the world! Concealed Carry was not at play!
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Errol Flynn was an actor, and his movie Dodge City was a work of fiction, not a documentary.
 
Sondavid said:
Thus, when it comes to being responsible 24/7 365 days a year for that deadly force you feel you must have to safely leave the house, how will you guarantee it will never come to irresponsible use?
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I feel perfectly safe leaving my house without a weapon, at least in most of my day to day activities. I just have one less option if, God forbid, I find myself in a mass shooting scenario. That scenario is highly, almost vanishingly unlikely, but not impossible.

Many hundreds of innocents in America come to woe and misfortune because of the attitudes of “responsible” and “law abiding” folks.
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Personal anecdote: When I moved from S FL to N GA I made multiple trips moving all my stuff, often in a Ford F-150. On one trip I had my S&W 9mm in the truck’s glove compartment. When I got to N GA and went to take it inside, it was not there. To this day I don’t know when or where it went missing. I filed a police report in Cooper City, FL, the last place I was certain I had it. To date, I’ve never been notified it was recovered. So, yes, even “responsible” and “law abiding” folks can misplace or lose a gun, much like their “wallet, keys and phone”. I just hope it was never used in a tragic fashion, but it’s unlikely I’ll ever know.
 
Sondavid:

Many years ago, my wife and I were about a mile from the nearest house, and cell phones did not exist.

4 men approached us, and advised they were going to rape my wife, I could stand aside, or get thoroughly beat up. I displayed a revolver, and they left.

My wife would argue that I was not insane to have a gun in my pocket.

But you would. Strange, does your wife agree with the outcome that my wife should have suffered?
 
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I think if most people who are afraid of firearms had an idea of how many people actually had them, they'd have some sort of mini-stroke.

At my previous job, there were maybe 50 people in the IT department. This is NY, where the laws are pretty backward, and it's a bit of a PITA to get the required carry permit to have a handgun. Turns out at least 60% of that crew had handguns. It took me about 2 years to find that out. Far more had rifles or shotguns of some sort. People just don't talk about it. There are lots of armed people everywhere in this country, and it's not a bad thing. Are there occasional problems? Sure. But if you want to avoid having your neighbor hurt you, take away their stove and their car.

I'm not sure where the fear comes from, it's as if they were using the same logic as "reefer madness", believing that the possession of a firearm somehow alters a persons character or behavior.

I'm not speaking to those who just choose not to own a firearm for whatever reason. That's a personal decision. It's the worry/concern/fear of the people who own firearms that could use some education.
 
Sinistar said:
….If you started a new post asking everyone if they liked your favorite tampon, a hundred bucks says @eman1200 would leave you and your thread alone...well I think he would.
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I put him on ignore so fast, I’d never even see the thread. Thankfully. Besides, that’d be a bloody awful thread.
 
SOB8604 said:
back to the original question

Currently it's a Sig 938
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I had to look that one up. I thought I wanted one of the baby 1911's style and last year before Christmas, BassPro put the Kimber Micro9 on sale so cheap I bought 2 of them. I was so cool with sequential serial #s, lol. I gave them 2 attempts at the range before I sold them...

I wonder if the OP is still following? Get a revolver:)
I just got a fed a utube vid made by a gun dealer. The topic was #1 handguns returned by new buyers...Glocks and Sigs. #1 complaint was no safety follwed by no hammer.
 
Robert Gee said:
I had to look that one up. I thought I wanted one of the baby 1911's style and last year before Christmas, BassPro put the Kimber Micro9 on sale so cheap I bought 2 of them. I was so cool with sequential serial #s, lol. I gave them 2 attempts at the range before I sold them...

I wonder if the OP is still following? Get a revolver:)
I just got a fed a utube vid made by a gun dealer. The topic was #1 handguns returned by new buyers...Glocks and Sigs. #1 complaint was no safety follwed by no hammer.
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The two primary reasons I like both for EDC.
 
Robert Gee said:
I had to look that one up. I thought I wanted one of the baby 1911's style and last year before Christmas, BassPro put the Kimber Micro9 on sale so cheap I bought 2 of them. I was so cool with sequential serial #s, lol. I gave them 2 attempts at the range before I sold them...

I wonder if the OP is still following? Get a revolver:)
I just got a fed a utube vid made by a gun dealer. The topic was #1 handguns returned by new buyers...Glocks and Sigs. #1 complaint was no safety follwed by no hammer.
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Why would the lack of a hammer be a complaint?
 
Robert Gee said:
The topic was #1 handguns returned by new buyers...Glocks and Sigs. #1 complaint was no safety follwed by no hammer.
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Reportedly the "thick as a brick" Glocks will fire underwater. Not sure why anyone would need that feature but someone will be along shortly tell us. o_O
 
Daleandee said:
Reportedly the "thick as a brick" Glocks will fire underwater. Not sure why anyone would need that feature but someone will be along shortly tell us. o_O
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Pretty sure Mythbusters and others have demonstrated that bullets aren't much of a concern after about a foot of water for most common calibers, especially in handguns. I would imagine that revolvers work just fine underwater, too.
 
SoonerAviator said:
I would imagine that revolvers work just fine underwater, too.
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"Working fine underwater" would likely depend on the barrel length. The Blackhawk with the 7-1/2" barrel would have a lot of water to move out of the way. Still not sure why I might need this feature.

Perhaps I could borrow a pistol from a friend & try this out. :rolleyes:
 
SoonerAviator said:
Why would the lack of a hammer be a complaint?
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Not the exact one I was referring to but similar( I dont like this channel)
I would guess its just like carrying in itself; what you know or expect in a gun, comfort level, familiarity, competence and fears, justified or not.
If its all I'd even known it wouldn't be a factor but it took quite a while before I would accept modern striker pistols as well. I still look at mine and go, hmmmm.
Im with this guy on the subject.
 
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Rushie said:
And TV and movies. Nearly 100% of scenes with guns display terribly unsafe gun handling and this is what kids grow up seeing.
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And 100% of the automobile ads thar I have seen display unsafe driving practices. So let's ban cars...

What?

That would be stupid, because automobiles are just tools. They don't decide how or where they are driven. Civilization is better for having transportation...

So we teach kids. I am old enough to have gone to school when our high school had a few Springfield M1922M1 .22 cal rifles. Our gym teachers taught safe handling, loading, and firing techniques, and we got PE credit for target shooting out on the "back 40."

Unthinkable today.
 
u never know when ur gonna meet a bunch of thugs under water
 
Jack Cabano said:
And 100% of the automobile ads thar I have seen display unsafe driving practices. So let's ban cars...

What?

That would be stupid, because automobiles are just tools. They don't decide how or where they are driven. Civilization is better for having transportation...

So we teach kids. I am old enough to have gone to school when our high school had a few Springfield M1922M1 .22 cal rifles. Our gym teachers taught safe handling, loading, and firing techniques, and we got PE credit for target shooting out on the "back 40."

Unthinkable today.
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That's not the lessons kids need to learn though. RE: Arlington, TX this week was not a negligent discharge unless he was only aiming at one other kid.
Cars are a bad analogy lest you open the whole license, registration and insurance question.
 
Half Fast said:
Why take chances?

https://www.billsbangsticks.com/
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Oh man. I forgot about those! Pretty much a necessity if you learned to SCUBA dive in the Pacific ocean.

Never had to use one, though. I could usually just punch that pesky shark in the nose and he would swim away...

Of course, I was young and didn't consider he would go get his gang friends and come back to get me. Those sneaky sharks...
 
IK04 said:
Pretty much a necessity if you learned to SCUBA dive in the Pacific ocean.
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I've seen plenty of wildlife on hundreds of 'geographically diverse' Pacific Ocean dives and have never seen the need for a weapon other than a stubby little knife to cut lines or kelp.

Nauga,
who is neither foe nor food
 
nauga said:
I've seen plenty of wildlife on hundreds of 'geographically diverse' Pacific Ocean dives and have never seen the need for a weapon other than a stubby little knife to cut lines or kelp.
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True. Like I said, I never needed it.

Now, that damn kelp nearly killed me a few times!
 
IK04 said:
True. Like I said, I never needed it.

Now, that damn kelp nearly killed me a few times!
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Seen plenty of sharks diving in the Atlantic and Carib, never a problem.

Sharks, though, are the reason to carry a dive knife. See a shark? Just cut your buddy and swim away. After all, another word for “buddy” is “chum”......

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Morgan3820 said:
I know that I am wasting my breath but, No, contrary opinion in the context of the thread would be gee, I think a revolver instead of a pistol is better, Kimber vs. Glock or something like that. Not debating the Second Amendment ad nauseam.
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Notice that no one has endorsed tiny guns like derringers or the NAA .22 mini revolvers? They’re often marketed for deep concealment, but they seem like they’d be very hard to handle and are really “contact” weapons. I’d be interested I hearing from anyone who has tried them.
 
Half Fast said:
Notice that no one has endorsed tiny guns like derringers or the NAA .22 mini revolvers? They’re often marketed for deep concealment, but they seem like they’d be very hard to handle and are really “contact” weapons. I’d be interested I hearing from anyone who has tried them.
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I'm a former NAA owner... if that says anything.
 
Half Fast said:
Notice that no one has endorsed tiny guns like derringers or the NAA .22 mini revolvers? They’re often marketed for deep concealment, but they seem like they’d be very hard to handle and are really “contact” weapons. I’d be interested I hearing from anyone who has tried them.
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Theres a time and place for everything, or it might be a @&^ thing:rolleyes:
 
SoonerAviator said:
Why would the lack of a hammer be a complaint?
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Because grandpappy had a hammer on his 1911 and everyone knows that in the last 110 years there haven’t been any advances in technology.

Most people are luddites.

I will say though, I haven’t shot any striker fired pistol with a trigger pull nearly as nice as a 1911.
 
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