I was not a gun person, but owned a small handgun that I had never fired, acquired from a friend for almost nothing in the 1970's. It was stolen from my home during a burglary in 1985. That incident, coming home to find the house had been broken into and robbed, woke me up to the reality of city crime, so I went out the next morning and bought a new gun for myself. It was a S&W Model 19, nickel, 4 inch barrel 357 Magnum. For years it was my only gun, and I still own it now 39 years later. It will never be sold as it is the only one of my guns that any of my grown kids has expressed a desire for once I am gone. It will go to my youngest son. Still a beautiful, classic gun that I would trust my life with.