Originally Posted by
Chrisreedrules
The market for a subcompact .45 exists mostly due to the fact that people who want them or "swear by" the .45 round is rife with the uneducated and the relatively inexperienced. 9mm is the new gold standard round for ccw and defense and it has been for years. If you like .45, buy a 1911. Otherwise, meh...
Too much oversimplification. The .45 is an option, and far from an irrelevant one. It's a common round and thousands of shooters are heavily invested in the .45 for numerous reasons. It doesn't make them "uneducated" or "inexperienced" even if they swear by it. A CCW filled with 6 rounds of high performance JHP .45 ACP is not inherently wrong.
And no, this 9mm revival is fairly recent. The .40 was the quintessential defense round according to forum experts, SME's, ballistic testers, LE and Fed agencies and 9mm haters on the internet not all that long ago.
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