This is an interesting thread! Normally I get flak for "collecting" guns that are too expensive, namely my Korth revolvers, and am automatically reduced to a non-shooting collector with nothing but deep pockets. Here we have the opposite - and despite the fact that we are on the S&W Forum here - the OP (cbhsgh), gets bashed for a personal decision.

As people we are a sum of our life-long experience; I lived, went to school, and worked in five different countries, of which one was extremely unsafe. In a hard lesson I learnt to ditch my beloved S&W 64 with +P++ reloads and carried a Glock.

Each and any of my fancy range guns would go, before I would let go of my self defence gun; a Glock.