[Oshkalaboomboom]

What is the best handgun to have for "personal self defense" (in-home and while traveling)? It has to be concealable (yay, WI!), it has to have "one shot - one kill" stopping power, it has to be completely reliable (no jams), and it can't be overly expensive ($350 to $600 range).

Years ago the army did research on pistol rounds and found that shot placement was more important than caliber and the only places to reliably stop someone was with a shot to the head, the spine or the long bones of the leg. A .45 to the chest would kill the perp eventually but they would still have time to do some damage to you, while a .22 in the brain had the same effect as blowing the head off with a shotgun. So instead of looking for a killer round get something you can afford to practice, practice practice with.

[Logic n' Reason]

Interesting response...but it didn't answer any of my questions.

Thanks for taking the time tho!!