I've really only carried three guns from 1997 to present.
In 1997 I received serious death threats because I exposed criminal fraud against a friend including false criminal charges. I lived in California and tried to get a CCW permit only to be told I didn't have the political connections or campaign contribution record to score. I fought that pretty hard from 1998 to 2005, moving to WA state in the latter year to follow a new job. In California I occasionally (and illegally) carried first a 4-shot Freedom Arms .22magnum minirevolver (no, NOT a North American Arms!) with a 1.5" barrel, and later upgraded to a Charter Arms 38 snubbie that was a surprisingly good specimen.
I carried that Charter legally in WA state.
On moving to Arizona in 2006 I started carrying my New Vaquero single action wheelgun bought in 2005, originally a 357Magnum. That gun is still my daily carry (I'm now based in Alabama but travel frequently) but it has evolved (some might say "mutated") over the years. Before I left Arizona in early 2013 I finished converting it to magazine feeding and gas-powered shell ejection in 9mmPara (9mm+P+
very capable). I cannot tell anybody my carry method for...reasons. The gun is carried with five in the cylinder, two in the first short magazine, two 9rd extended mags for reloads...or if I smell trouble I can take out the 2rd mag, put 9 on top of five in the cylinder for 14 with no reload. Switchover from cylinder feeding to magazine feeding is automatic, and gives an actual "clunk" sound when the first of the mag rounds slams forward into the cylinder telling me I'm down to 3 rounds if I started with 7.
It's called "Maurice" because "some people call it the Space Cowboy"...
http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2014/03/03/maurice-frankenruger-magazine-fed-revolver/
Probably America's weirdest carry piece and as far as I know the only personal arm with this feed cycle, ever. I'd call it insane to carry except I can't get it to jam - the "feed path" is absolutely dead straight and doesn't care about OAL, it'll eat empty shells or weird stuff that would choke a Glock. I keep planning to make some 9mm wadcutters using Penn Bullet's 100gr double ended wadcutters in .356"...should get me 10 or maybe 11 in the long mags, maybe 3 in the short for eight out of the holster.