What I Carry and Why: Jon Wayne Taylor’s STI Duty One and Kahr PM9

[ED: In response to reader requests, this is the third in a series of posts by TTAG writers revealing their choice of carry guns.]

Being a friendly and caution-minded person, I usually carry two guns. One of them is a custom STI Duty One 4.0 with an aluminum frame in .45ACP with Heine Straight 8 night sights and the other is a Kahr PM9 in 9mm with night sights as my backup. I’ve got a lot of confidence in these guns, and that’s why I carry them. But it wasn’t always this way . . .

In fact, I wasn’t much of a 1911 guy at all. From 1993 to 2008, my daily carry pistols were a Ruger P90 and a Smith and Wesson J Frame in .38 Special. Both are great guns, and I would highly recommend either. I put tens of thousands of rounds through that P90. I competed with it, and carried it on or off body just about every day.

I had just finished running a course at a Texas Department of Public Safety range in Florence, Texas, with my P90 when I got to try my first 1911. …Read the Rest

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