When I renewed my CHL in 2009, our instructor was a former cop. He stressed to the people who were going to carry semis that they would be useless if they had to first put a round in the chamber. For example, what if the perp had hold of your non-gun hand, etc?
Although I qualified with a semi, I prefer to carry a S&W Airweight revolver. No safety is needed, and gun is always ready to fire.
It is that hollyweird bs thing where every time someone use a semi they rack the slide. Such BS.
Good point.
The hammerless airweight (.38 special +P) is what I picked for a winter ‘parka pocket’ pistol. If need be, multiple rounds through the pocket into the perp with very little chance of malfunction. If the perp is that close and the situation that dire, forget drawing the weapon. I can always get a new parka. Mrs. Joe has one for the times she carries a purse—same concept.
You have made a very wise decision, IMO.
” S&W Airweight revolver.”
That’s one of my favorite self-defense weapons and one I heartily recommend to others. Recently, though I also bought a Glock 19: it has no safety and the trigger pull requires almost as much force as a revolver, relying on that for safety purposes as does a revolver. I keep it with one in the pipe next to my bed.