I had downgraded the value of my personal safety back to a J-frame by the time Para-Ordnance came out with the LDA versions.

But for several years before I carried a P-12 in standard 1911 configuration as my primary CCW gun and found it reliable and accurate. And it gave me 12 rounds of .45 hydra-shoks in a gun much more comfortable to carry and easier to conceal than a K-frame snubbie.

If I had stuck with a semi-auto, I’m fairly certain I’d have migrated to the LDA version.