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There are fairly regular conversations of 'what would be your ONE rifle', but not so much with other firearms. So... what would be your "one" centerfire handgun? This would be for always and eternity, keeping in mind all potential uses, all potential future regulations/bans, etc.
If I were to settle on one for the current world I live in, it would be something simple & medium, like a glock 19, 26 or 43X. Decent caliber, decent concealability, great reliability & longevity, etc. Not anything earth-shaking in any one category or trait, but a pretty good do-all. It would work well for ccw use, home defensive handgun use, woods protection (not ideal imo, but adequate if loaded well), and fun enough for range use.
But for a handgun that would be more likely than most to survive future bans/regulations, strangely perhaps I’d go with a 9mm moonclip-fed revolver with a 3-4 inch barrel. I don’t own that exact gun yet, but do have one very similar, a seven shot S&W with a 2½” barrel. They only offered it at the time with a 2½” or 5” barrel a the time, and the 5” was just too much imo. I started competitively shooting revolvers with a borrowed k-frame in 1977 or 78, but never owned a moonclip gun before this one and I was stunned at how much faster reloads are with moonclips than with speedloaders. I’ve been using speedloaders for more than 40 years, but in less than a month of using the moonclips was hugely beating my speedloader reload speeds; just no comparison. Plus moonclips are substantially less bulky to carry, fitting nearly twice as many reloads in the same space. And I figure that if any gun survives future bans, it’s likely to be revolvers.
If my current gun had a 3.5" barrel instead of a 2.5", it would probably be about as close to a ban-proof, versatile "one handgun" as I could come up with.
Curious what would be your "one" centerfire handgun; if it was the only one you could have available for always & eternity..?
If I were to settle on one for the current world I live in, it would be something simple & medium, like a glock 19, 26 or 43X. Decent caliber, decent concealability, great reliability & longevity, etc. Not anything earth-shaking in any one category or trait, but a pretty good do-all. It would work well for ccw use, home defensive handgun use, woods protection (not ideal imo, but adequate if loaded well), and fun enough for range use.
But for a handgun that would be more likely than most to survive future bans/regulations, strangely perhaps I’d go with a 9mm moonclip-fed revolver with a 3-4 inch barrel. I don’t own that exact gun yet, but do have one very similar, a seven shot S&W with a 2½” barrel. They only offered it at the time with a 2½” or 5” barrel a the time, and the 5” was just too much imo. I started competitively shooting revolvers with a borrowed k-frame in 1977 or 78, but never owned a moonclip gun before this one and I was stunned at how much faster reloads are with moonclips than with speedloaders. I’ve been using speedloaders for more than 40 years, but in less than a month of using the moonclips was hugely beating my speedloader reload speeds; just no comparison. Plus moonclips are substantially less bulky to carry, fitting nearly twice as many reloads in the same space. And I figure that if any gun survives future bans, it’s likely to be revolvers.
If my current gun had a 3.5" barrel instead of a 2.5", it would probably be about as close to a ban-proof, versatile "one handgun" as I could come up with.
Curious what would be your "one" centerfire handgun; if it was the only one you could have available for always & eternity..?