Concealed Carry: The Shooter's Guide to Selecting Handguns

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	• Concealed Carry: The Shooter's Guide to Selecting Handguns Wiley Clapp Paladin Press, 2002 - 120 pages average customer review:based on 12 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Concealed Carry: The Shooter's Guide to Selecting Handguns

The book covers the hand gun aspect very well, but I thought that Concealed carry should also cover holsters. There wasn't much about holsters.I will say that there was much detail about the choices of hand guns.Overall it is a good informative book. I would recommend purchasing this book if you want to know about all the options for concealed carry hand guns.

Decent overview of conceal carry pistols

The author attempts to cover too many pistols in too little pages. He provides a generalized over view of a great number of pistols -- concentrating primarily on larger caliber handguns (9 mm Para and up). He raises issues regarding conceal carry which provides the reader things to think about. However, he doesn't really provide enough comparison between the various pistols nor a detailed enough explanation to aid the reader in making an acutal selection. He does provide a useful top picks list, but without little to no explanation on how those picks are better than the other guns described.

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Good Reading

A good book on concealed carry. Good focus on guns that make for good concealment.

Good for people new to the subject

Wiley Clapp is very experienced with firearms, as he has a military and law enforcement background; he's also been a 'gunwriter' for several major firearms magazines for many years, and he writes better than most.

Overall this is a very good book on the subject of choosing handguns for concealed carry duty, but its helpfulness depends on the reader's prior knowledge. This book seems mostly aimed at those who are new to firearms in general or concealable handguns in particular. If you fall into one of those categories, you'll probably learn some valuable things and get good food for thought for your firearm selection process. If, on the other hand, you're reasonably familiar with handguns, you won't learn very much. (About the only thing I really took away from this book that was new for me was Clapp's argument that a compact revolver often conceals better than a similarly compact automatic, because the revolver, despite its greater girth, has an irregular profile/outline, whereas the auto is blocky and generally has a lot of straight lines and right angles that can show more through clothing. I'd never thought of it that way before, but it makes sense.)

One more weakness with the book: Because he focuses a lot on specific models, rather than just on general types and characteristics, the book runs the risk of becoming dated within a few more years. (The book's already 5 years old, and gun companies discontinue old models and add new ones every year -- often excessively so.) Still, on balance, this is a good book.

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Once you have made the all-important decision to get a concealed-carry weapon permit, you face a dilemma - how to determine the perfect carry piece from the dizzying array of choices available in modern handguns. Before you invest your money in and trust your life to one weapon, get the opinion of an expert - someone who's personally tested handguns from every major manufacturer and experimented with models, calibers and types of ammunition, all with the specific needs of concealed carry in mind. Contains in-depth analyses of small, medium and large pistols and revolvers by makers such as S&W, Glock, Colt, Ruger, Taurus and more.

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