Regret.
I should have bought it myself.
From the wife, "You always just buy guns for yourself anyway. I figured if we could afford it, you'd just buy it. Plus, I don't like the background check thing. I get nervous that I'll fill it out wrong, and everybody looks at me weird since I'm nervous."
From the mother-in-law, "If I had known [wife] wasn't getting it, I would have given somebody the money to cover half."
Now, it's back to MSRP, 35% more expensive than it was before Christmas, 35% more expensive than I think it's worth; and competing with an equally expensive - and equally desirable - revolver variant that Ruger just re-released.