If you were to pick a revolver for your full-time EDC, with the expectation that one day you might be the target of an attack directed specifically at you (not just some random mugger or crazy guy), what would you carry? I ask, because my home state is extreme enough to try to ban all semi-autos. I'm not saying such a ban would survive judicial scrutiny, but in case I have to pack a revolver for a year or so while the appeal process works, I want to own/practice with my gun in advance rather than join the rush of people all shopping at once.
PLEASE - Let's NOT discuss politics or delve into a constitutional debate. Just talk revolvers you'd carry as an EDC if that were your only choice. Thanks!
And if you care, currently my default choice, based on what I already own would be a pinned/recessed Smith 66-1 2.5" in an OWB holster with a speed strip in each front pocket of my suit pants. I'm thinking I might want a 4" gun for the longer sight radius (my near vision is not great), but I'm not sure.
Didn't read the thread yet, just your question. Hard to not talk politics because the question you're asking has a political or at least, legal basis.
For one thing, you can ignore the law. It's unlikely you'll need a gun anyway and if you do, you face the immediate threat with even the threat of jail for some bs charge, fading into the background if you actually have to deploy your weapon.
That said, I don't think a revolver is much of a handicap. What I'd carry would depend on the level of concealment I wanted. Where I live, Constitutional Carry rules so you don't have to worry about printing and stuff like that as far as scaring the snowflakes and getting charged with something for it. Concealment is exactly that, concealing it from the bad guys so they don't know you have a gun. It is different.
Of the guns I currently have, I'd carry my wife's Colt Magnum Carry (a Detective Special chambered for .357 Mag.). If not limited to my current arsenal, I'd get a S&W Chief's Special. I would load either of them with the FBI/Treasury load of .38 Spec. I would carry a speedloader or two for reloads. If not worried about medium concealment, I'd simply carry my Governor loaded alternately with .410 anti-personnnel loads and 45 Colt's.
