If You Could Have Only One Carry Piece For SD What Would It Be?

For deep concealment. I like my Taurus spectrum 380. If i feel in need for an extra a side arm. I carry my Taurus PT111 G2. Woods my RIA 10MM 1911. And my Ruger SBH.

Glock 30.

It's a great all arounder but a little thick. If I get a second, I'll have to say glock 42 for when I want something truly compact and easy to conceal.

Not a glock fanboy, I think they're great carry guns though.

Glock 43x slim concealable and a Glock.

I probably will go with one of the smaller 9mm.
I like my Hellcat.
Many like their Sig 365

I can have 13+1 rds of potent 9mm, good sights, in a compact, lightweight pkg.

My current and only SD handgun is a Springfield mil-spec 1911 in 45 Auto. I figure if 9 rounds of Federal 230gr HST +p isn't enough I need to consider just running away. Lol.

My Kahr PM9 supplanted all of my previous carry choices (Glock 23/19, multiple S&W j-frames, Kel-Tecs, etc.) around 2006.
Still haven't found anything with a combination of slimness/lightness/reliability/accuracy to replace it, so it is still in my pocket every day.
Many, many rounds through it, still as reliable as the rising sun.
Would I rather have 10+ rounds? Sure. Do I want the extra weight/width in my pocket? No.
So I carry an extra mag in another pocket "just in case" and call it good.

If I still had a G26, I hold it in pretty high esteem and it may very well be at the tippy top, as well as the G43 and G48 but those last two are single stacks and aren't as good IMO. I like the G26, G19 and G43 for concealability and EDC but I do love S&W J frames too, it would be a hard toss up between G26, G43 and S&W 642.

If it’s just one it would be without a doubt, my KAHR PM45. It’s a great balance, small enough to be easy to conceal. Has 6 rounds, and since it’s a 45 that can easily handle 10-12 attackers.

I don’t really even have a second choice, maybe maybe a XDs 45. Just cause that’s about as close to my PM45 as I can get.

If I get to chose a bug I’d flip a coin between my LCP and my NAA mini revolver.

I hate to be limited by these "only one" type of questions, because I'm an American, and I have choices...
Be that as it may, I'd have to go with something middle of the pack in that situation. .
MY Glock 43x.
Big enough to hold 15+1 rounds of 9mm, and have a decent grip, yet small enough not to be full size.

Inside the waist band (summer) my 9mm Dan Wesson Vigil Commander in a Sparks Criterion holster. Outside the waist band (winter) the same Vigil Commander in a Tucker HF1.

The Vigil is my most accurate and reliable of any carry guns that I have tried and the Sparks Criterion /Tucker HF1 the most comfortable holsters that I have tried.

The picture of my plain jane HF1 has a Kimber stuck in it. I need to update my pics.

Easy enough to conceal, Big enough for any SD situation I'm likely to be in. If it ends up in an evidence locker, so what? it's a Glock. there are a million more just like it.

My heart says my Smith&Wesson 66 w 2.75" barrel. But if you made me choose one for everything it would be my Glock gen5 23 with the RDS. It can kill most of what I am likely to come across with the right load selection and conceals pretty well even under a Tshirt.

For carry, specifically? One of the pocketable micro-9s.

Like the Nano in my pocket.

But if I was an IWB guy, yeah, it’d be the Glock 30.

I'm a fanatic about the "concealed" part of concealed carry. That combined with the fact that I have serious arthritis/strength issues in both thumbs and wrists limits my choices. If I really can only have one carry piece, which is actually the case when travelling in my motorhome, it's one of my LCP MAXs. They're very small and concealable, have good capacity, are fairly easy to rack, sufficiently accurate, and not too difficult for me to shoot as far as recoil and muzzle flip.

Effective and classy.

G26

I would pick a 3" S&W 36 or similar.
What is a semi auto w/o a magazine? Answer = worthless.

Picking from a decent number of micro 9mm.s (a S&W M&P Shield Plus, Glock 43X, Glock 48, and a SIG P365X), I would be inclined to go with the P365X. Nothing wrong with the others; they are all very close in size, weight, and capacity.

It's just that I like the way the SIG feels and how it balances in my hand.

1911 LW combat commander in the Lords caliber, 45 ACP.

If it came down to just one gun.
My Wilson Combat EDC X9

Some of my other EDC guns
Wilson Combat CQB Compact
Dan Wesson Guardian
Sig Sauer C3
Sig Sauer P365xl
S&W 642 Airweight

If it came down to one gun, I'd most likely choose either my SA Ronin EMP 4" 9mm or the Hellcat.

That would be tough. One carry gun? It would have to work in all situations.

I have several pocket guns, but if it was just one gun, it would be something easy to shoot with a lot of rounds.

I have an aluminum frame Browning Hi Power that I like carrying, when I carry a full size gun, but I wouldn't ever want to fly with it ir leave it locked in a car, because it would be difficult to replace.

It would also have to be something plastic or stainless that I wouldn't mind getting around saltwater.

Maybe a S&W SD series. Maybe a Glock 26.