I carry a snub nosed S&W 642 Pro with the lighter trigger pull set in a Mika Pocket Holster. It's the most versatile pocketable gun in my collection. Natch, I don't have a whole lot, but my wishlist is pretty long.
When I started paying attention to my self defense, and began the CHL/LTC process, one of the guns that I picked out almost immediately was to get a S&W snubbie revolver.
I had a 4 inch barrelled service pistol at the time that I could use immediately to carry that I had had for years and sent lots of rounds through it, but the next self defense gun to add to my arsenal was the snubbie. Sure, I liked the Kahr PM9 and the Sig P938. And those are great pocket guns too. They are on my list to eventually beat out the snubbie, but there was just something about that "don't breath on me" reaction of pulling out a .38 Special +P revolver. The revolver was a lot cheaper too, and got me carrying more.
Like others have said, the standard round count for a self defense encounter is 3-5 rounds. Now, I've seen police body cam footage of having to fire almost a full clip, but those were isolated police incidents dealing with very, very bad people. I don't see myself ever being in those type of situations and needing that. Sure, if I am going to a bad part of town, that's different, but like others have mentioned, if I'm going to go get fast food, or to the mail box, or anything that most normal people do, the snubbie can cover it.
The snubbie goes with me in the pocket holster, and mostly stays in the car. I have it setup for those close encounters (of the bad kind). Carjacking while stopped, people asking for money, gas station stuff. Its all covered by the snubbie for my use.
I put the black Hogue plastic grips on it with the finger grooves, so it's a little tight in my front jeans pocket, but I have carried it there and put my keys elsewhere.
Like I mentioned, it's perfect to put in a sweatshirt pocket, a light jacket, whatever. It's so versatile. I have those other 9mm on my list (the Kahr, Sig, S&W Bodyguard maybe), but for now, the snubbie serves a lot of uses, and most of the reason why I chose it first. It's the one that would get me to carry something, instead of carrying nothing.
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