I have shot a bunch of handguns since joining the USAF at the age of 17. Yes they did issue us a S&W model 15 Combat Masterpiece when I was 17. Every day I drew my handgun,loaded it , and went on patrol. One day I was jacked up for getting a fella to buy me a Colt Diamondback and was underage....Whatta crock of....anyway back to the subject... The most accurate handgun I have ever owned was what some would say is a piece of junk. I once owned a Llama Martial in 38 spl. I could easily hit a soda can at 100 meters with it.It had one bore in the cylinder that was tight and a round would hang every so often.I finally honed it out and had a perfect firearm for years. In 1982 while I was living in the oil patch in Houston I ran upon hard times. I had a wife and child and had just lost my refinery construction job. I needed funds to get back to WVa and get back on the GI Bill at my lil state college....so I let it go. When I drove out of Houston in 1982 the place looked like a war movie full of refugees.The local news said 15,000 people were living under the off ramps on the highway syatem.I hate to sell a firearm,but I believe I had to sell this one to help raise funds to get my family to higher ground. I never owned another Llama after that. I never went back to Texas after that. What I saw and experienced back then scared me. I could see our country failing. I hated Ronald Reagan until the day he died for ruining my country and putting my family and me in danger.I have grown up some since then. I stopped hateing people and just try to hate what they do. I have tried to say the things I don't like in other people are really the things I don't like in myself. I believe our country could fail or come close to it again and one thing that helps in those times is owning firearms. They provide wealth and protection...Like holding a .357 magnum on a bunch of bums at a rest stop while my wife cooked some hotdogs and beans for my child and us. If I did not have the big model 28 S&W we could have been hijacked just a few hundred miles up the road from Texas in 82.
I finally returned to Houston for a few minutes last year. I had a layover at Bush airport.I was glad to leave. I still have not bought another Llama since then.