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HIGH-CLASS HI-POWER

If you don’t consider your defensive handgun a tool, it’s nothing but a toy. A defensive handgun is a damned important tool, because it’s one of the few tools that might actually save your life. Aside from reliability and effectiveness, tools are generally very prosaic and ordinary; you don’t see many gold-plated hammers or engraved screwdrivers. But, as important as hammers and screwdrivers are when you need them, they’re not life-saving important.

Because of the importance that’s inexorably linked to a defensive handgun, some are customized not just for performance, but for looks as well. Performance customization comes from a desire to have the ultimate working or infallible tool. Ornateness is an owner’s exclamation of that perfection and the importance of the tool they’ve chosen to place between them and evil. A Glock is

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