I want this as a started New Thread.
Starting the question I asked, above! And adding the why.
A purpose, I think is the first question you should ask yourself.
Once you dress, and travel anywhere, out of your home, you are open to any danger, or risk, any one has been subject to, in these United States, ever!
If these risks are out there, they can be duplicated.
So read up, on the shootings, attacks, risks that can be researched.
And place yourself, and your handgun, on that spot.
So? You do not have time to do that, or the inclination.
I once read a wee joke, you can only have to much ammunition, if you are drowning, or on fire! True I suppose.
As I am retired for quite a while, let us start with retired but still mobile, as a first group.
I can, and do, carry a fairly large, but not to heavy, Glock 19. Takes 15 rounds in the magazine, one in the breach, 16 total.
A spare G17 magazine (more for malfunctions that for an extended gun fight, but it could happen) next to the spare mag, on the opposite side to the 4 o'clock positioned pistol. Also next to that spare mag. An expensive LED flash light.
The Kydex holster is tight, secure, and very fast. High neck Tee shirt keeps the pistol from the skin, but the Glock is not too abrasive either.
What I call a Florida shirt, hides it well. Ammunition for the last few years, Ranger T Winchester 147g HP. Very accurate. Medium recoil, goes deep.
Modifications? TruGlo night sights/polished internals, 4 or 5lb release.
Glock factory extended slide release (they don't call it that!) the mag release on the Gen 4, dug into my second finger, cut that corner off.
If you look at the Police shootings over the last few years, bursts of 4 and 5 rounds are common, if that gives you a better chance of survival, in a confrontation. We should maybe copy that? That would leave you with 5 or 6 rounds left? And that is why you carry 16. I have never had a misfire of any nature with either one of my two carry Glock 19s, I only use factory ammunition.
I feel I have covered all bases, to the best of my ability, with out going wild.
Starting the question I asked, above! And adding the why.
A purpose, I think is the first question you should ask yourself.
Once you dress, and travel anywhere, out of your home, you are open to any danger, or risk, any one has been subject to, in these United States, ever!
If these risks are out there, they can be duplicated.
So read up, on the shootings, attacks, risks that can be researched.
And place yourself, and your handgun, on that spot.
So? You do not have time to do that, or the inclination.
I once read a wee joke, you can only have to much ammunition, if you are drowning, or on fire! True I suppose.
As I am retired for quite a while, let us start with retired but still mobile, as a first group.
I can, and do, carry a fairly large, but not to heavy, Glock 19. Takes 15 rounds in the magazine, one in the breach, 16 total.
A spare G17 magazine (more for malfunctions that for an extended gun fight, but it could happen) next to the spare mag, on the opposite side to the 4 o'clock positioned pistol. Also next to that spare mag. An expensive LED flash light.
The Kydex holster is tight, secure, and very fast. High neck Tee shirt keeps the pistol from the skin, but the Glock is not too abrasive either.
What I call a Florida shirt, hides it well. Ammunition for the last few years, Ranger T Winchester 147g HP. Very accurate. Medium recoil, goes deep.
Modifications? TruGlo night sights/polished internals, 4 or 5lb release.
Glock factory extended slide release (they don't call it that!) the mag release on the Gen 4, dug into my second finger, cut that corner off.
If you look at the Police shootings over the last few years, bursts of 4 and 5 rounds are common, if that gives you a better chance of survival, in a confrontation. We should maybe copy that? That would leave you with 5 or 6 rounds left? And that is why you carry 16. I have never had a misfire of any nature with either one of my two carry Glock 19s, I only use factory ammunition.
I feel I have covered all bases, to the best of my ability, with out going wild.
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Being a US Army Medic, I carried the Colt 1911 for 6 years. So I have acquired quite an affinity for the .45ACP cartridge. I could still dismantle and reassemble the Colt blindfolded after 45 years. 
