Pretty much said it right there. A lot of good carry guns for around $400 around here. Pick your flavor Glock, S&W, Ruger, Kahr etc.
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Why carry an expensive CCW?
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Pretty much said it right there. A lot of good carry guns for around $400 around here. Pick your flavor Glock, S&W, Ruger, Kahr etc.
Carry what you are comfortble with and what you shoot well. If it is a $2000-$4000 1911, carry that. If it is a Kel Tec, carry that. A CCW/Personal Defense should not have a price tag on it. I choose a Glock 27 or 23 because it is a carry gun and I dont care if it gets beat up or scratched...and I know it will go bang every single time, regardless.
Carry as expensive as you feel your life is worth...and you can afford
If losing my gun and cost was an issue, I'd buy a hi point. However, my family can't have a value put on it, so that being said, cost is never a concern. But, for what I got my glock for, I could live without it. But, no performance is sacrificed.
Can we please refrain from the "my family doesn't come with a price tag so neither should my carry weapon" rhetoric, please? Implying that you somehow love your family more and are more able to defend them because you carry a $2800 pistol is the middle aged equivalent of "mine is bigger than yours."
Glock G26. I have more expensive guns but they are too big for CCW.
Lots of members on this board. Has anyone had their gun confiscated? Been in a shooting? Just curious.
I "accessorize" with a Colt Commander. I exercise, eat healthy, wear a seat belt, don't smoke. That helps keep me and my family out of harms way.
I "accessorize" with a Colt Commander. I exercise, eat healthy, wear a seat belt, don't smoke. That helps keep me and my family out of harms way.
So I understand what you are saying but you also need to be realistic about it. I don't own a single firearm that I can't trust to go bang every single time. If it doesn't it doesn't stay at my house very long. Now for the real reality check.
Once you get to a certain level of reliability v price point , we'll call it the glock standard since it's about the bottom floor, there is no upshot. There is absolutely zero difference between the effectiveness of the bullets coming out of a $3200 nighthawk, $1000 HK or Sig vs a $400 glock in the real world. For me it's not about "what my family is worth" because that's a retarded way to look at it when you're talking about two tools that do the same job equally well. If you have 16 guns that go bang every single time and you can shoot them all equally as well it doesn't matter which one goes in your pants and it's not an issue of one doing better at shooting things than another. If we really, truly wanted to carry what was proven "better" at quickly hitting the target we would all be carrying big comped, magwelled race guns with spaceman red dots on top of them ... but we aren't then are we? CCW is a compromise where we carry an easily concealable gun so you don't put an eotech on top of your carry piece
I can afford all of these guns, I own some of all of these guns, but I only carry two of them with any frequency anymore.... For years I carried an HKP2000sk and then a P229r but now days it's a glock19. I've fired so many rounds through it that it's like an extension of my hand and I trust that it to work as much as I trust my finger to work to pull the trigger.... It has never failed in any way and if it ends up in someones evidence lockup I don't care because it costed $450 and I can go get a new one the next day.....and I have two spare factory 30rnd mags for it in the tool bag in the back of the car just in case all hell breaks loose.
Once you get to a certain level of reliability v price point , we'll call it the glock standard since it's about the bottom floor, there is no upshot. There is absolutely zero difference between the effectiveness of the bullets coming out of a $3200 nighthawk, $1000 HK or Sig vs a $400 glock in the real world. For me it's not about "what my family is worth" because that's a retarded way to look at it when you're talking about two tools that do the same job equally well. If you have 16 guns that go bang every single time and you can shoot them all equally as well it doesn't matter which one goes in your pants and it's not an issue of one doing better at shooting things than another. If we really, truly wanted to carry what was proven "better" at quickly hitting the target we would all be carrying big comped, magwelled race guns with spaceman red dots on top of them ... but we aren't then are we? CCW is a compromise where we carry an easily concealable gun so you don't put an eotech on top of your carry piece
I can afford all of these guns, I own some of all of these guns, but I only carry two of them with any frequency anymore.... For years I carried an HKP2000sk and then a P229r but now days it's a glock19. I've fired so many rounds through it that it's like an extension of my hand and I trust that it to work as much as I trust my finger to work to pull the trigger.... It has never failed in any way and if it ends up in someones evidence lockup I don't care because it costed $450 and I can go get a new one the next day.....and I have two spare factory 30rnd mags for it in the tool bag in the back of the car just in case all hell breaks loose.
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I take back every nice thing I ever said about you. 
Never had a gun "confiscated" but have had one taken in as evidence and that is what changed my mind about the price point of the weapon I carry.
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