Maybe I'm just old fashioned, but I have a strong liking for the M1911-A1. Especially after reading a report about some idiot on angeldust who was still coming after the cops with a knife after being hit with 60 some rounds of 9 mm. He looked like a human pincushion. The M1911 was designed to knock a Morro armed with a machetti on his bum and break enough bones that he couldn't get back up, and that is just what you need with some of these wierd people.
I also like black powder weapons. It isn't hard to make your own ammunition, so they will still be usable after the government has seen to it that only criminals and police (pretty much the same thing around here) are armed.
