You live in Kentucky, IIRC. Unless there’s some issue I’m unaware of (and I’m not asking), you could have an actual nice .45 in a holster.
Yeah, but I started that habit when I lived in Seattle and worked downtown. That place, at the time (I moved away 8 years ago) was a Jekyl and Hyde area. At around 6 p.m. the dogs all went home and the coyotes came in.