I'm startng to reconsider my HD gun

Do what your uncle did. Carry it. Nothing would validate his gift to you like having it save your life or the life of another innocent. What do you think he would tell you?
Actually having to fire a gun in self defense is, for most of us, a very remote possibility. If that gun saves your life once, you uncle's gift was not in vain.
 
If you use the gun in a SD situation, it will be taken into police evidence for a while. If you are lucky the officer collecting it will not carve his initials into it (if they still do that). You will also be lucky if "Deputy Bubba" doesn't take a likin' to that Sig in the evidence room and it somehow disappears.

If the gun means more to you than "just a tool", don't be a tool. Save it for trips to the range.
 
Surprisingly

No one has brought up the point that a handgun is simply a tool that will allow you to get to something a bit more appropriate for PD. Usually that refers to something like a shotgun. Now I am not advocating that position, I have just read it so much over the prior three years that I felt compelled to bring it up.

Did you Uncle leave you an 870?

Is overpenetration an issue?

Personally I feel the same way about my "family jewels". I would get myself a common reliable SA or a 686 if you are thinking revolver.

I had some handguns confiscated/attached in a family death and when they came back from the evidentuary storage area (8 months later) they were beat.
 
There's a reason your Uncle passed it down to you.
It protected him, he wanted the same for you.

Nothing wrong with mementos, if that's the case unload it and put it in a safe place. It's your choice.

But what's more important than the firearm, was the thought your uncle had for you, that's the best memory I can imagine.
IMHO

Good luck! Good Hunting!
 
Aside from the sentimental value, the GP100 is a better choice anyway; less things to have to remember when you're awakened groggy.
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Come on. The Sig 250 *is* point and shoot.

Look Delaware_Dan, here's an idea. The gun has sentimental value, I can relate as I have an old J-frame handed down to me. What you do, is get another slide for it. The whole gun is modular. Use that for HD, the frame/grip isn't the serial numbered part, it can be replaced easily.

Keep the slide in the safe. You can get another frame rather cheaply.
 
If you want to save it as an heirloom then get yourself a short barelled shotgun, a .410 would even work for HD.
I had a "wake-up call" literally one night, awaken by my panicked daughter at 2am saying someone was breaking in. I had the Bersa .380 at my bedside at the time and the very first thought into my fuzzy brain was that I need a bigger gun with more bullets.
It was realized that the ice-maker on the fridge turned on by itself and was stuck on and it did sound like someone was rattling a door knob loudly.
But it was what I needed to make corrections in my HD equipment, now I have my 870 loaded with "00" buckshot in a 21" rifle sighted barrel and TLR-1 attached to the underside.
 
If your in NC regardless if you are in the wrong or not you will loose your gun for some period of time. I was at an ATM in '98 and the victim of an attempted robbery. I was shot twice with a sawed off 12ga. and returned fire. My handgun was confiscated as evidence and was to be kept as evidence until the case was closed. They had no idea who it was and it looked as if I would never get my gun back. My lawyer pulled some strings with a friend who happened to be a judge that issued a court order to release my weapon. Once the robbery investigator discovered I got my gun back he was quite PO'd :p

They had it for 1.5 years
 
I see what yu are saying, I think my position would be, it would be the best SD choice-the guardian angel type connection. Your most important weapon when you need a weapon to survive. We're not talking about a engraved, nickel and ivory Colt on a Mil-Spec your great granddad carried in the trenches in France. Your Uncle purchased not that long ago and carried it if needed to bust on a bad guy, it was a working gun. But, that's me, and what I'd want if passing on a firearm. I can definately understand wanting to keep it, and keep it handed down as an heirloom. It probably should be cherished as a momento of a passed loved one, but for me it's the one I'd want in my hand when SHTF.

Sorry for your loss, BTW
 
I have a 1917 Colt that i carry on occasions in the woods.My grandpa carried it in WW1,my uncle carried it in WW2,another uncle in Korea,my cousin took it to Vietnam,and i took it to Saudi.We all carried it and made it back so i look at it as good luck,i cant picture locking it away in the safe it's a working gun.
 
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