In a few months I'm eligible to apply for my CWP.
I'm looking into something that can be comfortably carried and fully concealed in a standard pants pocket as my EDC. The more it feels like I'm just carrying an extra wallet or phone, the better. Semi-Automatic, Magazine Fed, DA/SA, safe to carry ready to go, and No Safeties preferred. Would consider a compact revolver as well but that's bottom of the list. Potential as a suppressor host is desirable but not essential. It can't be a maintenance whore either.
I'd carry a larger, more suitable tool for occasions where I'm probably somewhere I shouldn't be in the first place or otherwise expect substantially escalated risk.
I'm inexplicably partial to Beretta and have been looking into the 3032 and the 21. With the .32 ACP I keep reading about frame cracking problems, and apparently Beretta's manual warns against anything loaded with more zest than "130 ft/lbs of energy," which is about what one can expect from a high velocity .22LR. I don't have any qualms about carrying a .32 as long as it was proven reliable and the bullet functioned as designed (which seems to leave me with the 60gr Corbon or higher velocity 71gr FMJs, both of which are over the very meager power threshold put forth by Beretta). I'm not sure how I'd feel about carrying the .22, though I kind of rationalize that a pocket gun is more of an impending violent confrontation / don't fsck with me solution than anything else. An as-new-as-I-can-find .380 or .32 70 series sounds more reliable than the 3032 or 21 but I can't find any pocket carry solutions for them and they're also not DA/SA.
I really wish someone made a pocket 9x19 that met my desires. I do not like DAO.
Does anyone have any Pocket Carry suggestions, advice, or preferred holster solutions?
I'm looking into something that can be comfortably carried and fully concealed in a standard pants pocket as my EDC. The more it feels like I'm just carrying an extra wallet or phone, the better. Semi-Automatic, Magazine Fed, DA/SA, safe to carry ready to go, and No Safeties preferred. Would consider a compact revolver as well but that's bottom of the list. Potential as a suppressor host is desirable but not essential. It can't be a maintenance whore either.
I'd carry a larger, more suitable tool for occasions where I'm probably somewhere I shouldn't be in the first place or otherwise expect substantially escalated risk.
I'm inexplicably partial to Beretta and have been looking into the 3032 and the 21. With the .32 ACP I keep reading about frame cracking problems, and apparently Beretta's manual warns against anything loaded with more zest than "130 ft/lbs of energy," which is about what one can expect from a high velocity .22LR. I don't have any qualms about carrying a .32 as long as it was proven reliable and the bullet functioned as designed (which seems to leave me with the 60gr Corbon or higher velocity 71gr FMJs, both of which are over the very meager power threshold put forth by Beretta). I'm not sure how I'd feel about carrying the .22, though I kind of rationalize that a pocket gun is more of an impending violent confrontation / don't fsck with me solution than anything else. An as-new-as-I-can-find .380 or .32 70 series sounds more reliable than the 3032 or 21 but I can't find any pocket carry solutions for them and they're also not DA/SA.
I really wish someone made a pocket 9x19 that met my desires. I do not like DAO.
Does anyone have any Pocket Carry suggestions, advice, or preferred holster solutions?