The "Nightstand" gun

[iGuy]

Mostly its a Springfield Armory XDS 9mm. I eventually want to put Trijicon sights on it. Someday.

My Sig 236 is also close at hand.

[ReverendMeat]

My Sig 236 is also close at hand.

What's that?

[pangloss]

I have a Gen4 G17 (+2 baseplate) with a Surefire X300 and tritium Warren sights. I also have handheld Surefire and an extra mag in/on the nightstand.

[rob_s]

don't play the duffer card

I don't know what that means. Google didn't help.

[JAD]

I don't know what that means. Google didn't help.

Sigh.

Can I sigh?

[ToddG]

Dictionary.com
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FWIW, I'd never heard the term before, either.

[45dotACP]

My 1911 comes out of the holster, gets a 10 round mag and sits by a flashlight.

But not on a nightstand.

[LockedBreech]

My 92FS with factory 17-rounders and standard-pressure Speer Gold Dots.

It's strange. I own two guns with night sights and rails. Those are the logical choices. But that 92 fits me like a glove. It's the thing I'd be the most confident with in a pinch. Sometime down the line I want a railed model.

[David B.]

Night sights and light on rail.

God Bless,
David

[rob_s]

No, its not. But it doesn't have to be uber-simple either. I carry an HK pistol and a J frame revolver, every day. My nightstand gun is a G17 with M3X light… because I that's what I WANT. The G17 is a police trade-in that personifies the term "tool". Three different guns… but maybe not so different, because they all work the same way; pick it up, pull the trigger. Repeat until no more burrets, whereupon their differences begin to manifest themselves. But after carrying, shooting, training, qualifying, etc., etc., with these guns (and others just like them) for a very long time, I think I could manage to "stay in the fight".

I would be very interested to hear why you think one needs a reason to use different guns for different tasks. And make that a generalized statement, please (i.e., don't play the duffer card), because your quoted comment sounded pretty generalized to me… okay?

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It sounds like a lot of people are pursuing complexity for the sake of complication. There are plenty of pretty basic reasons for sticking with one type of gun (the most obvious being parts interchange, holster compatibility, etc.) but I'm not hearing much in the way of reasons for the gun cournicopia other than "because I want to". That's cool if that's all it is, I know a lot of people see guns differently than I do.

I suppose I was expecting to hear more of the "why" in this thread and less of the weird. In hindsight, the lack of why probably should have clued me in that there wasn't any.