Maybe it's just me, but a carry gun should have a few hundred rounds down range, several times per year, it it's an auto pistol. They should be fired every month several times , for at least 6 months until you see if the gun starts to have problems with Failure to fire, eject , feed, etc. Just because it worked the first time you ran a few rounds down range, doesn't mean that it will work a year form now, unless you stay on top of it.
Now if you carry a revolver, not so much, but they can fail also.
I have had good guns that suddenly stopped working after a great range session a few weeks prior, and others that had a broken part upon field stripping to clean it. Like I always say, they are machines and will fail at some point. I have had Glocks with broken recoil systems continue to fire until I broke them down to clean, "then parts fell out", same with the recoil assembly on a Springfield EMP.
Best thing you can do is to take your gun apart and clean it weather you shoot it or not. Just to check for problems. Then take a pencil with an eraser, and "with an empty gun", cock it and watch that pencil fly out of the barrel, "been doing that for decades, it will let you know that your gun will at least fire that first round. Some of them will fly across the room and others will just leave the barrel, that's ok as long as something happened.
It won't hurt your gun and it will put your mind at ease if you are one to worry about weather you assembled everything correctly, and everything is working.
