This thread sounds like it's going towards "Show Me Your Snubby". Please ... no pictures.

To this thread, I had an experience that goes to whatever you can carry on you.
Was living in Houston and had just come out of my customer's office which was located in a not-so-good part of town. Had to mail a letter and across the street from their office was a mail box in a bank parking lot. Normally, I would have had my HKP7 (or a custom tuned S&W 3906) on me. But because I was at my customer’s office it was stored securely in my car between my seat and console.
As soon as I park and walk over to the mail box, a car pulls up between me and my car. Loud rap music is being pumped out of the oversized speakers in the trunk. The driver smiles at me. He either had a piece of pepperoni or a ruby on his tooth. Just when I was wondering if they didn’t see too many 5’9” blue eyed blondes wearing nice suits and driving new cars in their hood that it dawned on me that they were not going to mail a letter.
Just as I see the driver reach for his door handle the passenger who was scanning the parking lot taps him on the shoulder and they leave … smiling at me like a Cheshire Cat. A Houston PD car had just pulled into the bank parking lot.
Moral of the story. Carry the gun on you. In the car or in the safe will not do you any good. Carry what you can shoot reliably and carry comfortably.
I am in the market for a smaller handgun. Would get a S&W “J” frame tomorrow if I didn’t distrust the internal lock so much. As to caliber and this thread, I would not have an issue with a 32ACP if it was reliable and on the right platform.