As for most of us are aware of, some people do not have the luxery to afford 5 different hand guns, a shot gun and a rifle. Personally, I own 3 pistols, P226, Glock27 and a 1911 5inch kimber (9mm, .40 and .45 respectively) and I use my G27 for 99% for carrying. As for home defense, it would be a trade off between the 226 and 1911 (this is not a 9mm vs .45 debate.. we all know 9mm's go through walls better than 45's and 45's score higher on ballistics.. so whichever gun is dependent whether or not there are bystanders nearby or the ammount of ammo i need in case half the crip gang are inside, which then i'll pop a 32 mag clip in the 226 ).
The point of this thread is to get your ideas on what gun would BEST fit a good home defense purpose package as well to be easily concealed enough for every day carry.. so I can suggest a few more options to people I know who are buying for the first time. I just got a buddy of mine to buy his first gun (yay for me) and i suggested a glock 23 would fit both needs for the .40 caliber being a compact yet having 13 rounds is plentiful for most HD conditions IMO.
For the .45 caliber I suggested the Kimber compact carry..
yeah yeah.. i suggested 9's too but he didn't want 'em
Please post what you think fits both purposes..
if you wanna know what he chose, please read on..
He took the glock.. probably b/c of limited funds (hey, all students w/o rich parents are BROKE!).. but after the purchase and a few boxes fired i explained to him that it took me almost 4 years to rack up my super duper 4 gun collection, and after shooting my kimber, his next purchase he swore would be the full size kimber
The point of this thread is to get your ideas on what gun would BEST fit a good home defense purpose package as well to be easily concealed enough for every day carry.. so I can suggest a few more options to people I know who are buying for the first time. I just got a buddy of mine to buy his first gun (yay for me) and i suggested a glock 23 would fit both needs for the .40 caliber being a compact yet having 13 rounds is plentiful for most HD conditions IMO.
For the .45 caliber I suggested the Kimber compact carry..
yeah yeah.. i suggested 9's too but he didn't want 'em
Please post what you think fits both purposes..
if you wanna know what he chose, please read on..
He took the glock.. probably b/c of limited funds (hey, all students w/o rich parents are BROKE!).. but after the purchase and a few boxes fired i explained to him that it took me almost 4 years to rack up my super duper 4 gun collection, and after shooting my kimber, his next purchase he swore would be the full size kimber