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Originally Posted by mossguy
Too expensive to carry? I don't understand.
Tom
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If you ever have to use it, you
are gonna lose it. You
might get it back a year or more later after it's been jumbled around in an evidence locker and been marked up by the ballistics lab. Since most 1911's are highly customized and not cheap, they are not the best for CCW. First and foremost because any customized gun is going to make you look like a gun nut in front of a DA and jury. There's a well known case in AZ where a guy, who very justifiably shot a nutbag attacking him in the woods, spent seven years in the can, largely because his carry piece was a 1911 10mm and the DA was able to pick a super gun-ignorant jury (Coconino County) that thought such an oddball caliber meant the shooter was a gun nut and looking for a fight. And since not many 1911's are super accurate out of the box, a lot of them require some customization. I'd rather have a near stock SIG or Glock, which pretty much grow on trees, are in use by countless police agencies, can easily be shown to be a common self-defense-type gun and don't cost much to replace.