If you’ve read my Gun Digest published, Handgun Training for Personal Protection book, you were introduced to a man by the name of Joe Bonar. If you’ve not read that book, which was published a decade ago, it’s still available, and Gun Digest still sends me about a dollar every time someone buys one, hint, hint. I met Joe more than 30 years ago. We shot together, drank together and he was in my wedding. Joe tragically died in a car accident 20 years ago. I miss him.
Why am I telling you about one of my dear departed friends? Because that man and his son crafted what I consider to be the best pistol I own. It’s also because the story of Joe and the pistol he built is a great illustration of how some guns can mean so much to us. But for you to fully appreciate this pistol, you need to know the backstory, and it starts in 1992.
