I'm a little surprised you don't carry two. But then again, if I was in your line of work, I wouldn't say anything about the second one either. Ya just never know about people. I'm glad my job doesn't involve handing strangers my gun.
I would take it in baby steps. No reason to blow a ton of money when you might get where you wanna go for cheap! Try just a connector first. @protective measures installed a "minus" connector for me and that's light enough- maybe even a tad too light (but I did start from a Gen4 that has...