I'm trying to ask a pretty specific question but I'm not sure how to get it right.
Given situation: you have two handguns that are identical in all respects except for caliber.
As an example a Glock 19 and a Glock23 (for my example capacity is equal on both)
Or a (brand of your choice) 1911 in .45ACP or 1911 in .38 Super.
Or a given revolver in .357 or .44.
So, essentially you have two guns that occupy the same space.
It's a normal day. Assuming it's legal you're going to take the kids to school, go to work, go grocery shopping and come home.
How do you decide which gun you're going to carry on that given day?
Flip a coin? Switch off every other day? Whichever is on the nightstand?
ETA: I own a Glock 19 and a 26 and a gazillion magazines for them and enough 9mm to start WWIII (It on took about 5 rounds to start WWI).
Every so often I get a bug up my but and I want a Glock 23.
My problem is if I buy a Glock 23 I'm one of those people that's going to get 19 magazines for it, three or four cases of ammunition for it, a half a case of Speer gold dots for it and a $120 Kramer holster for it (by which time SWMBO will have already thrown a conniption and relegated me to the couch FOREVER. )
And I know that either it or the Glock 19 (for which I've already bought all of the above) is going to end up a safe queen and SWMBO will be really twisted.
I'm trying to decide if the financial outlay is justifiable but based on the answers that I've gotten before I added this edit I don't think it's going to be.
Given situation: you have two handguns that are identical in all respects except for caliber.
As an example a Glock 19 and a Glock23 (for my example capacity is equal on both)
Or a (brand of your choice) 1911 in .45ACP or 1911 in .38 Super.
Or a given revolver in .357 or .44.
So, essentially you have two guns that occupy the same space.
It's a normal day. Assuming it's legal you're going to take the kids to school, go to work, go grocery shopping and come home.
How do you decide which gun you're going to carry on that given day?
Flip a coin? Switch off every other day? Whichever is on the nightstand?
ETA: I own a Glock 19 and a 26 and a gazillion magazines for them and enough 9mm to start WWIII (It on took about 5 rounds to start WWI).
Every so often I get a bug up my but and I want a Glock 23.
My problem is if I buy a Glock 23 I'm one of those people that's going to get 19 magazines for it, three or four cases of ammunition for it, a half a case of Speer gold dots for it and a $120 Kramer holster for it (by which time SWMBO will have already thrown a conniption and relegated me to the couch FOREVER. )
And I know that either it or the Glock 19 (for which I've already bought all of the above) is going to end up a safe queen and SWMBO will be really twisted.
I'm trying to decide if the financial outlay is justifiable but based on the answers that I've gotten before I added this edit I don't think it's going to be.
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