I have consolidated, since the Eighties and the early Nineties, when I tended to accumulate too many different firearms. I have, since then, tended to own several of the things I deemed important, especially duty firearms, because it made sense to have spares, and because it made sense to largely use the same weapons for personal defense and home defense, that I used while at work.
Compact Nines became painful to shoot, so I traded three Gen4 G19 pistols, in 2020, while keeping my “orthopedic” longer-gripped G19X and G17 Glocks. My last qual, at the PD range, In October 2017, with two of those G19 pistols, cause my right thumb and wrist to swell, and discolor. I was glad to find that shooting quals with my G17 and full-sized, all-steel 1911 pistols, a few weeks later, was pain-free, and symptom-free. Several compact-grip auto-pistols, which had been on my mental to-buy/try list, were erased from that list. Then, that mental pistol list faded away, completely. It is not that I will never buy another handgun, but I have aged-out of thinking much about them.
My only two remaining compact Nines are an S&W 3913 TSW, and an S&W 908. I only shoot them with my healthier left hand, and the 908 serves as an “understudy” gun, for training, to save wear and tear in the 3913. The 3913 is a niche gun, not regularly carried, but is just too handy to not keep it around, for the relatively few times I want to carry an auto-pistol inside my trousers, or inside a pouch-like holster.
I’ll not do a list of my firearms. My user name is not sufficiently anonymous, and don’t want our home to be on any burglars’ shopping lists, even if we do have at least one really good gun safe.
