What do you carry?

[Japhy]

I don’t but might start
My range buds all carry. We were discussing the topic today. The conclusion was cheap is better because if something happens your favorite piece may just end up in the evidence lockup maybe almost forever.

[CPJ 2.0]

"cheap is better" is horse poop.

A $500 Glock is fine to end up in an evidence locker. I can buy another.
Using the cheap is better logic......a hipoint or Lorcin etc is the perfect SD weapon. Said no one with a brain, ever.

I have a Glock 43. If it happens to get stuck in an evidence locker, Ill buy its clone and move on. Happy that I had something that worked at the worst time of my life. Rather than chancing it because some **** boomer said " I might not get it back, ever!"

My life is worth more than $500 bucks. Your milage may vary.

[Freezer]

Ahhh... when they take one, they take them all. I had a friend in that situation, I rearmed him with mine. It could have cost me mine, but it was better than loosing a friend.

As for a CCW, I prefer something I'm confident and comfortable with that is 100% reliable, forget the price.

I have a Walther clone and a good pocket pistol.

[Diver43]

As for a CCW, I prefer something I'm confident and comfortable with that is 100% reliable, forget the price.

This

Get something that 1. Is reliable, if needed your life will depend on it. 2 You will carry. My favorite handgun is my Sig P229 .40S&W, but its big and its heavy. Under a coat its fine, but I live in Florida. I need something that works in shorts t-shirt and flip flops. Thats why I have a Sig P365 and when even that seems too much, I have a little P3AT that takes up less room than a wallet in my pocket.

[Wambli Ska]

Glock 48 MOS with a Holosun EPS Carry sight has become my almost exclusive concealed carry piece. AIWB hides well under any shirt or t-shirt all 4 seasons.

It’s almost a $1,000 setup so not cheap but if it get taken by the police my self defense insurance will buy me a new one so it’s all good.

[Japhy]

The carry inventory was
2 Glock43
1 Glock 17
1 Sig p365
1 Springfield XD .45

The “cheap” discussion meant no WC, Dan Wesson, Nighthawk, or etc or anything over $2K.
This is S. AZ so there is a blur between open/concealed meaning it’s common to see partly concealed.
The one lady that shoots with us that keeps the G17 in her purse. Probably not the best carry method
Should I decide to carry most it will be a 4in .45

[Gila]

I usually carry a .40, but some times it is a .45, a .357 or a 10mm...

[GrapeApe]

Well, "cheap" is a relative term. My Ruges EC9s was just over $200, a LOT cheaper than the Kahr PM40 I carried for years. I switched, not because of price, but because, like many other LEOs and civilian, I decided to go back to the 9mm.
Their our others that are carried depending on the situation and my mood.

Para LW Commander 45acp and my new "commander style" (17 rnd frame with the g19 length slide) PSA Dagger are the primary 2 alternatives to the Ruger and combined probably make up less than 1% of the time I'm carrying

[Zee]

95% Glock

19
22
23
26
43
43x
47

Sometimes I carry a revolver at the ranch.

When I walk away from a gunfight…….they can have the gun.

[jbp-ohio]

Hellcat.

I started with a Para LDA .45 CCW..... If it isn't small and comfortable. I just wouldn't carry it all of the time. I can't carry anywhere past 3:00 (actually before 9:00 cause I'm correct handed) because of my back. Went to a XD40SC. It was small but fat. Much better but still left it in the car sometimes.

Went with a Kahr PM9 for........ 13 years. Easy to carry. Not really that accurate.

The Hellcat doubled the rounds carried and the trigger is better. It is pretty accurate for a 3'' barrel.

[shotgunshooter3]

What I look for is an intersection between cost and quality (IE reliability). In the extremely unlikely event that I have to actually use my carry gun on someone, losing my Glock 19 to an evidence locker will be the least of my concerns.

[GrapeApe]

To the best of my knowledge, there's very little risk of losing my firearm to an evidence locker if the DA rules it justifiable and I'm not charged. I seriously doubt any shooting I do would be ruled any other way.

[Wambli Ska]

To the best of my knowledge, there's very little risk of losing my firearm to an evidence locker if the DA rules it justifiable and I'm not charged. I seriously doubt any shooting I do would be ruled any other way.

Depends on jurisdiction, if your charged or not, what you’re charged with because they might not charge you for the shooting but come up with BS crap like “brandishing”, “endangerment” or equivalent, discharging firearm inside city limits (there’s a million of these gotchas) and how much of a **** the top local LEO is. In some places, once a gun is “evidence” it’s FOREVER evidence until they do a cleanup and destroy it. One of the big reasons I maintain SD insurance, fast claim, new gun

[Linefinder]

I've carried a Kahr PM9 for almost 20 years. Never been "made", and never had to use it....And I can hit with it, (with the exception of one rattlesnake).
It was a really, really small rattler.

[jkp]

Mostly a Sig P365. Sometimes a Glock 43x. Rarely a Glock 27.

[Bigslug]

I'm with CPJ - you can take the "cheap" thing to far. You at least need to ask the question "How much is my ASS worth to me?"

That said, you don't need to sink a gold mine into it. When you look at what a handgun needs to do, it's a basic meat-cleaver application, and a five-digit price tag, hand-made Japanese katana isn't going to do the job any better.

The various Glock Gen 5 and Gen 4.5 (43/43X/48) 9mm's sit solidly at the intersection of being nearly unstoppable to the point of inspiring a lot of confidence, being easy enough to keep working well enough to hold that confidence, being very resistant to failure even when that maintenance is neglected, and being cheap enough to be regarded as expendable/consumable when viewed in the totality of what's at stake when they get used for real. That you can learn the basics of one in a couple hours and that the mags are about $20 and nearly indestructible doesn't hurt either.

I get it - there are sexier toys that we all like. I trust the 1911 - assuming it's assembled "to code" - for myself about as well as I do Glocks, but not nearly as much if it's being given to the average user that doesn't know or care about what's going on under the hood. The problem with "sports cars" is not only the cost, but the need for a knowledgeable pit crew.

There are still applications where the DA revolver is hard to beat, but the deep level care is beyond a lot of folks. The basics of at least knowing how to spot when one's going wrong, plus as spare to deploy while having the issue dealt with is prudent. . .but that can fly in the face of affordability.

So yeah. . .Glocks.

[Zsarvashere]

Glk 19 or 26.

Rarely a kahr pm9.

[rberg]

Kahr cw45
Ruger LCP

[Justsomedude]

Polymer 80 Glock 26
Glock 17/19
Springfield XDs 45
Bersa Thunder Plus 380
Ruger lcp 380
Keltec pocket 32acp
I more go with mag capacity than anything else because I hate carrying extra mags.

[bullsi1911]

I have a slight agreement with the “Don’t carry something you don’t want to lose” argument. I do not carry my 100+year old S&W 1917 or my gorgeous deep blue CZ-97 that my wife game me for a birthday. Because I’m pretty sure I cannot replace those. If I owned a Korth, I would not carry that either.

BUT… any of the other guns I regularly carry? I’d love to get it back eventually if it was taken as evidence, but I would not cry if that was the price I paid to save my life or the lives of my loved ones.

What do I carry? Depends on the day. Today its a Smith 686 since it finally got cold and I celebrate “Big Gun Carry Weather”