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Welcome aboard, Chief. I will venture to try to answer your question as asked, and not instead just question your wife's quite reasonable position, being well-married myself. I carry a Colt Defender. Being an old salt too, very old, I found my beloved Colt m1911 (real m1911) just too much for the old man to carry around, and after trying a couple of other smaller 1911-clone alternatives, I went to the Defender.

I added a Crimson Trace laser, making an even better self-defense weapon. Then I just learned about the XS sighting system, something real new to the old sailor, replaced the Defender's quite adequate three-dot sights with the XS Big Dot tritium sights, and see nothing else needed to give me the ideal self-defense weapon. I say again, it was a fine carry weapon before my additions, which are all a matter of personal choice.

Nice having you with us, Chief,

Elmo