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Canon1d4 wrote: ... if I can't hear for a few hours, who cares.

Canon, while I well understand that it may become necessary to fire your handgun while in your car, and unavoidable, and I am prepared to do so if unavoidable, take it from one who is stone deaf that you may not count on your hearing suffering for only a few hours. I am confident that my both my duty and hobby firing guns of all kinds for almost 60 years, much of this before ear protection came along, was largely, if not solely, responsible for my hearing loss. It is clear now that just one such blast nearby an unprotected ear can cause severe permanent damage to one's hearing.

Jim

The Annoyed Man wrote: ...it isn't really anything more than a distraction....

Howdy, young fella'. Reminds me of oncet upon a time when an attractive young lady firing at the point next to mine at the range suddenly screamed. The gentlemen on the range, rather than coming rapidly to her assistance, stood goggleyed as she stepped back and commenced to disrobe the upper part of her body to remove the hot brass from where it had lodged.

Jim

Crash,

A good question, to which I have devoted a lot of time and thought. I own numerous SA and revolver handguns, and after considering the issue for some time, and after carrying various makes and mods as a car gun, I have decided to purchase a new firearm solely as my car gun. I do not suggest that it would be right for you or anyone else. To save some typing I copy the following from another earlier thread, with slight adjustments, just to report what I concluded.

"I have just acquired a new handgun, which doubles as an old man car gun and carry gun -- A Bond Arms derringer (Made In Texas), along with a fine fitted holster which rides on the belt outside the WB, and the Bond lies parallel to the belt. For a righty like me I have yet to decide whether as a car gun it is handier on the right, or cross-draw on the left. I tend toward the latter. Different, but an impressive piece of workmanship in stainless steel. Two barrels, one atop the other, mine being one a .410 buckshot, the other .45LC, both loaded with ammo specifically intended for self-defense." http://www.bondarms.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

As we said when I was in the service, "different ships, different long splices."

Jim