Hey Jim Taylor, you have any luck shooting that 1862?

. I correspond regularly with a reader in Arizona who is almost as old as I am. In his last letter he shared what his go to town guns were. He says he will remain a dinosaur as his main pistol, which he calls his Daily Carry Gun, is a replica 1849 Colt Pocket Pistol. Historically, the 1849 Colt was an extremely popular everyday carry gun with nearly 1/3 of a million being produced The quickest reload is still a second gun and this is especially true with a single-action sixgun and imperative with a percussion pistol and his 1849 Colt is backed up by a replica 1862 Colt Police Pistol in his boot.
He does not feel the least bit undergunned and the check through history will show just how potent these pistols have been in the past. I have also heard from two readers who carry .44 Remington cap and ball revolvers on a daily basis. One is a long-distance truck driver traveling through many states while the other drives daily in a city known for its anti-Second Amendment sentiment. The feeling on both of these men is if they do have to use or if they get stopped for some reason they are carrying sixguns which are not federally regulated as firearms.