Funny, this thread started out as a statment of the obvious between race guns and work, self defense guns.
It then turned into a 1911 versus the rest of the other guns.
Byte strike succintly summed it up right away.
Your gun=your ass. If it doesn't work when it is needed it doesn't matter how pretty, ugly, expensive or cheap it was because it just turned int oa family heirloom.