How expensive is your carry gun?

[BSA1]

My SIG edc retails for $1,000 +/- depending on LGS / Big Box store. I brought mine used as a Police trade-in and have a little less than $700.00 in it.

So if it was taken as evidence after a use of force would I replace it with a new one? You bet in a New York minute. If it was good enough to save me once it will most certainly be good enough a second time.

 

[Zaydok Allen]

I assume we are talking CC guns here. If talking open carry, mine goes north of $1000 in some cases.

 

[Reloadron]

Not to nit pick and already having answered wouldn't it work better with numbers like:
< $99.00
$100 to $199
$200 to $299
$300 to $399

and on? This way you don't have redundancy in the numbers. Using my gun as an example at $700. Where should it be? Would it be $700 to $800 or the lower $600 to $700 range?

Ron

 

[M-Cameron]

Not to nit pick and already having answered wouldn't it work better with numbers like:
< $99.00
$100 to $199
$200 to $299
$300 to $399

and on? This way you don't have redundancy in the numbers. Using my gun as an example at $700. Where should it be? Would it be $700 to $800 or the lower $600 to $700 range?

flip a coin.

 

[Reloadron]

Works for me.

Ron

 

[Plan2Live]

Glock 43 in summer, Glock 19 otherwise. Reliable, plenty of power, and planning on losing one- but hoping I don't.

Said the person who obviously didn't read the question.

 

[DeepSouth]

Not to nit pick and already having answered wouldn't it work better with numbers like:
< $99.00
$100 to $199
$200 to $299
$300 to $399

and on? This way you don't have redundancy in the numbers. Using my gun as an example at $700. Where should it be? Would it be $700 to $800 or the lower $600 to $700 range?

Ron

After taxes/transfer you would be well over 700, so 700-800 it is. He was asking about replacement cost.

 

[sgt127]

Price is irrelevant to me as long as it does not include engraving, gold inlay and superfluous widgets.

I Cary a Sig P239 DAK in 357 Sig off duty with a Barsto barrel. Has to be close to a grand all together.

Occasionally I'll carry and old 3" S&W 65 .357. Guess I gave about $250 for it. Worth more than that now though.

My duty gun is a Glock 22. Free. (Well, to me anyway)

My back up is a 25 year old 642.

Before we went to issue guns, I carried a Series 70 Colt Wilson Master Grade 130. Gun and work, it was a $1200 gun in 1986. Now? $3000.

 

[Delford]

My EDC cost $399.99. I bought it online from my LGS. It was 2 years old and needed a ramp polish. Similar guns were selling for $600 so while it was stiffer than a board it was a good deal. It's loosened up a good bit and I've cleaned and polished it a couple times. If I had to turn it over to a LEO I have a mid sized pistol in the same caliber. I hope that never happens as I really like how it fits and shoots, not to mention other implications. Replacing it at that price would be difficult.

 

[Kennydale]

The Utilitarian boringly goes BOOM every time Glock is good enough for me. Base Price approx $530 + $90 (XS Big Dot Sights)+$20 (Talon Grip)+ $20 (Lightning Strike Titanium Safety Plunger (Smoothed out trigger, but that was a gift from a friend so -$20) so figure $640 for a near perfect firearm .

 

[MedWheeler]

Though I paid $270 for my Kel-Tec PF9, I then paid another $80 for a HC slide.

I put myself in the 3-400 dollar group because of today's prices on the gun.

 

[Manny]

IIRC I paid just over $700 + tax for my KLCR .357 w/ Crimson Trace grips, then added a tritium front sight. All in cost pretty close to $800. My VP9LE was just about the same price for the gun, but came with night sights installed and a third magazine.

 

[Arkansas Paul]

I carry an inexpensive weapon most of the time.

In the warmer months it's a Taurus 709 Slim.
In cooler months when I leave a jacket on it's a full size .40 Sig 2022.

I carry these inexpensive weapons for a couple of reasons. One is they both just work. Never had a malfunction with either that wasn't my fault.

Two, I'm not in a financial position to carry something high end at the moment.

And just to throw my opinion out there, not carrying an expensive gun because you're scared you'll lose it if you ever have to use it is insane to me. If you like a weapon for CC and you can afford to get one, that's what you should carry. Keep in mind you are not going to utilize this weapon unless you are in genuine fear for your life or the life of your family. What is that worth to you?

 

[huntsman]

I don't buy new so $200.-300. maybe up to $350.

 

[Spats McGee]

I bought my G19 new, coming in right around $450, maybe a few bucks higher. I carry it virtually year-round, with a few exceptions. If you add in holsters, belts and the necessary accessories for carry, I'd be somewhere in the $500-600 range, but that wasn't how I understood the original question.

As much as I like some of the high-end firearms, I am unlikely to ever carry one. After ~$800 or $1,000, I seriously begin to wonder if the extra money spent really translates into qualities that matter to me. Reliability, accuracy, carry comfort. Sure, it'd be nice to carry a $3,000 1911 that shoots 0.5" groups at 50 yards, but: (a) what are the odds I'll actually need that kind of accuracy; and (b) what are the odds that I'll actually be capable of that kind of accuracy in an SD situation? (Answer to #2: somewhere between slim and none.) What about reliability? Is a $3k pistol really more reliable than a $500 one? Maybe, but is it $2,500 more reliable? For my money, not likely. Especially when that would mean $2,500 worth of ammo that I could not buy.

As an aside, but not really a justification for carrying a less expensive pistol, if I'm ever in an SD situation, I also expect the police to take my pistol as evidence, at least for a little while. I can't replace a $3,000 pistol. I just don't have the money. If I had to, I could replace a $500 Glock. I would also be far less heartbroken if the police engraved a case number on the slide or otherwise mistreated a Glock than if they did so to an expensive pistol.

 

[Ranger Roberts]

I carry 3 different guns depending on the occasion. I have to be honest, I can't remember how much they each cost new so I am just going to guess.

Glock 23c: $550?
Ruger sp101: $550?
Walther ppk: It was given to me but I think they go for around $600?

Plus holsters for each one:
$100 for each would be my guess.

 

[outlawjw]

$800.00 some days , $1200.00 others & $1000.00 on woods days , lighter more bullets per clip.

 

[kevincallahan]

One thing folks might want to think about it that carry gun, if ever used is going to be placed into evidence and will probably be marked with markings in reference to the case. You will probably get the gun back, but it will be awhile usually and it will sit in an evidence locker in what will probably be not the best of conditions. Putting large amounts into a daily carry is fine if you are comfortable with that. I am not saying at all to buy cheap when your life depends on it, but carrying a decked out 1911 engraved or fancy grips, will almost without a doubt not look like you would like when it comes out of evidence in a year or two.

 

[Jim NE]

My price limit on hand guns, generally speaking, is $500...less than what some other folks would spend. You don't generally find fancy guns for 500 bucks, but I've found a few very clean vintage pieces for that amount or less, and I wouldn't really be willing to carry them even a little bit, let alone on a regular basis. Not because they're that valuable, but because I see them as vintage pieces more than defensive tools. Part of a "collection," however modest.

Even some notably worn older guns don't get carried if they're very original and somewhat hard to come by. So I also have some "beater" old guns - very cosmetically worn, and usually modified from original in some way, that can get carried worry free, as long as they're mechanically sound.

My main carry is a Taurus 9mm, which I bought new. One of the many good things about polymer pistols is that they can get carried without much obvious wear. I have another Taurus that I bought new, that I wouldn't carry, however. Not because it's rare or cost a lot, but because it's got the old school bright blue finish on a steel frame that would show wear. Doesn't matter...I wouldn't really carry revolvers anyway.

 

[tarosean]

One thing folks might want to think about it that carry gun, if ever used is going to be placed into evidence and will probably be marked with markings in reference to the case.

I wonder why people even ponder this??? As long as it did it job and I am here to talk about it. If I never see it again, or it comes back beat to heck, so be it. It was worth every cent paid.

You will likely have much bigger things on your mind and blowing a hole in that wallet far larger than any gun purchase... i.e. Bail, Lawyers, Grand Juries, etc. etc.

 

[Coldfinger]

M&P 40, bone stock. Don't know that it would happen but I would want to answer stupid questions on the stand as to why I made my carry gun more deadly. I've read about it happening. I mean really? Making a gun more deadly? How about more reliable and accurate? But yeah, about 500$ for an M&P

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[JohnBT]

My carry gun has cost me 27 cents a day so far.

9 years of everyday use for $900 (I bought it very very slightly used) and I can probably get almost that much for it now - it's a Rohrbaugh R9 with black carbon fiber grips.

John

P.S. - I just bought a $4k riding mower and I will be thrilled if it lasts nine years even though it's only used every week or two for seven months a year. It's a zero turn Toro fwiw. The dealer also sells Scag, but they're really expensive. Nice mowers though.

 

[mongoslow]

the G23 ran me a little over $500, the Sig 1911 a little Over $1000

 

[DaisyCutter]

police engraved a case number on the slide

I've put dozens of firearms into evidence, and have never engraved a case number on a firearm. They go into a cardboard box if no testing is needed. If function tests or ballistic tests are needed, then they go into a paper bag and the crime lab tests the gun and boxes it.

Granted I don't clean the firearm or lube it, but engraving a case number on the slide seems absurd when you can box it and write the number on the box.

In my personal experience I do more damage from daily wear & tear on my own sidearms, then the police do for evidence processing.

The exception would be if the crime lab has to chemically process the gun for fingerprints, in the event you deny the firearm is yours. The chemicals would attack the finish.

But who is honestly going to deny possession of the firearm in court, and then ask for the gun back post adjudication, lol.

 

[Spats McGee]

DaisyCutter, I was merely positing that as a hypothetical "if the police engraved . . . " I've never had a gun taken as evidence (thankfully), but have read internet reports of that happening.

And if you read it on the internet it must be true, right? (Bonjour . . . )