Jay has a post up with a photo of an old “Fitz Special” revolver. These were professional conceal carry modification to what were then large revolvers, to make them more portable. Such a gun even graced the holster of James Bond.
With the exception of the Jennings, the guns here are NOT new concepts, and as I’ve said before that .25 Colt was made in 1917, and the boys in Hartford were cranking out lots of options specifically made for carry long before.
Also ever thought why the First S&W was so gosh-darn small?
Yesterday Shelly points out she just got a Kahr PM9 (I’m a huge fan, Kahr made a 9x19mm +P gun the size of most .380 pocket guns, and made VERY reasonable to shoot despite being VERY small, and VERY light.
Self defense is a natural human right, and the sentiments we have today are little different to the sentiments of our Great and Great-Great Grandfathers.
Mark Twain wrote of the Smith & Wesson Model 1 in Roughing It:
I was armed to the teeth with a pitiful little Smith & Wesson’s seven-shooter, which carried a ball like a homoeopathic pill, and it took the whole seven to make a dose for an adult. But I thought it was grand. It appeared to me to be a dangerous weapon. It only had one fault — you could not hit anything with it. One of our “conductors” practiced awhile on a cow with it, and as long as she stood still and behaved herself she was safe; but as soon as she went to moving about, and he got to shooting at other things, she came to grief.
Yep, nothing really new under the Sun. Seen the Post over at Tam’s a few days ago about that new Derringer that someone is pushing? The basic design goes back to the 19th. Century. As for the Kahr, after standing next to you at the Northeast Blogshoot , and firing Zercool’s along with the Ruger’s, I wish I had the cash to get a Kahr. Sorry Ruger, but I don’t like your Triggers on the LCP and the LC9. YMMV, of course.
You live in a free state, skip all the safeties and failure points, plus the Kahrs can eat from a wide-range of Magazines and an already lush infrastructure.
BTW, look into the CM9
http://www.kahr.com/Pistols/Kahr-CM9.asp
Much cheaper, only comes with one mag, but same overall quality. Plus you can skip the 2nd 6 round mag, and go straight to 8the for your reload.