I have an LCP. Carry it everywhere, even work where it is technically verboten. What they can’t see can’t hurt me.
I carry it at work because I don’t want to leave it in my vehicle. I live in a Constitutional Carry state and bad guys know if they need a gun all they have to do is break into three or four cars and they’ll find one.
I have put a couple of boxes of cartridges through it. It shoots OK. It’s not meant to be a target pistol.
In 98% of defensive gun uses (DGUs), a shot is not fired.
Which means that a mouse gun is as good as a cannon 98% of the time.
Fact: Guns prevent an estimated 2.5 million crimes a year or 6,849 every day. Most often, the gun is never fired and no blood (including the criminal’s) is shed.
Source: http://www.gunfacts.info/pdfs/gun-facts/7.1/Gun-Facts-7.1-screen.pdf, page 21.
Fact: A victim may have a strong reluctance to talk to a government agent about a firearm brandishing incident (which are 98% of DGUs) because they may not know the act was 100% legal.
Source: http://www.gunfacts.info/pdfs/gun-facts/7.1/Gun-Facts-7.1-screen.pdf, page 83.
In other words, the 98% number is probably low.
Which means that a mouse gun is as good as a cannon 98% of the time.
***A lot of people who buy .45s find it’s too big to carry around all the time. So they stop carrying it. In that instance, a mouse gun is far superior to the .45 with all that stopping power you kept at home.