* * * As to the price argument, there is absolutely no reason not to carry an expensive pistol if it is what you shoot well. Just be emotionally prepared to have it kicked across an asphalt parking lot by the first LEO on scene if you ever have to use it.
Actually, no.
If you ever have to use it, your $3K Wilson Combat Super Duper 1911 will be confiscated by the first officers on the scene as 'evidence' in a homocide investigation and held in the PD's property lock-up for six months or however long, ... until some proper authority rules or determines that your use of deadly-force was legally justified.
Depending on the jurisdiction, that decision as to justification could be up to a D.A. or County Prosecutor, a grand jury, a judge, or a trial jury. And none of them will be in a hurry ...
Thus your psychology in choosing a carry weapon should be:
If I
use it, am I prepared to
lose it?"
- for what could be a substantial period of time.
And during its time in the police property lock-up, your very pricey custom pistol will be fondled, dropped, drooled-over, dropped again, the slide repeatedly racked, the thing bumped and banged around and dry-fired a gazillion times, and with each shift-change more of the same, ... not to mention at some point it'll get 'test-fired' (but only for 'official reasons,' of course, such as to verify 'operability' - yeah, right.
).
All that starts to make something like an well-used but still serviceable Glock 19 or some 'beater' of a snubby - like my 3" Ruger Service Six - look like the ideal EDC weapon.
