What I Carry and Why: Nick Leghorn’s GLOCK 43

By Nick Leghorn

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

I went to college at Penn State, which was, at the time, ranked the #1 party school in America. I didn’t see much of that unless you count LAN parties. For most people on campus their 21st birthday was marked with a pub crawl, vomiting in public, passing out, and cursing the hangover the next day. For me, I spent my 21st mailing off an application for a C&R license and vising the local police station to get a concealed handgun permit. In the years since, I’ve carried a number of firearms, but I can honestly say that I’ve found my perfect carry gun in the GLOCK 43 . . .

This is the first handgun I ever bought (and the first gun I ever carried) — a SIG SAUER P226. I still hadn’t quite figured out that whole photography thing, but you get the picture. I carried this gun in a thumb break leather retention holster and while it was ideal in terms of gunfighting potential, it wasn’t so ideal …Read the Rest

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