If you could have only one handgun, what would you choose?

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Third Gen S&W 5906, 9mm that eats anything I can find, feeds empty beer cans if I can load them into the magazine, and will function as a reasonable facsimile of a hammer in a pinch. If I wanted to give up wait to trade for concealability, it'd be the 6904. Lighter weight, shorter barrel, and it's black so it hides well. Other factors remain the same.
 
Just one? My G17 I have now, or a decent medium frame .357 like an SP101 or similar. Both are still small enough to carry concealed in a pinch and powerful enough for most possible needs.
 
I don't understand the appeal of hypothetical-masochism games. At all.
Always good to have a plan B.

I survived the crash without liquidation but afer going through 3 plant closings and the financial distress that followed I learned nothing is sacred.

Now we face retirement and a future of fixed income so...
 
Always good to have a plan B.

I survived the crash without liquidation but afer going through 3 plant closings and the financial distress that followed I learned nothing is sacred.

Now we face retirement and a future of fixed income so...

So the reason for the "just 1 gun" restriction is that we're (hypothetically) broke? OK, then better pick something cheap to buy and cheap(er) to feed.

The answer would likely be different if the reasons for the restriction was regulatory. There are some european nations, for instance, where it's possible to get a permit for 1 handgun, but impractical or impossible to get permission for 2. If that's the reason for the restriction, then picking something that can be converted between calibers becomes pretty valuable, cost be danged.
 
I'm gonna be the odd one out here.

As much as I love guns, they are indeed just tools. If I were down to just one, it would be just one tool, and would therefore have to do as many things as one could do. It would have to do them while beating me up, in the hand and in the wallet, as little as possible. Since I don't hunt, the three purposes for which this gun would exist for me would be home defense, self defense, and recreational fun.

The one gun that would do this for me best of all would be a high-quality, pocket-possible handgun in .22LR. There, I said it.

So, it would be something along the lines of an older (Interarms-vintage?) Walther PPK/S in .22LR. Of the guns I currently own, my Taurus PT22, Bersa Thunder 22, and Interarms-imported FEG AP22, would all be in the running.
 
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