there have been people who were people who were prosecuted and lost, if not wrongly so, because they had punisher grips on a standard colt. do you really want to take the chance. and really what can you accomplish in a self defense situation that you cant with a standard .45. i just dont want the liberals to have any more reason to try to take our guns. I mean when i went to mardi gras in NO, i had a shotgun and a m1 carbine in a sky bar in my car. but NO then was still pretty much like a war zone. I apologized for coming on so strongly. It is just the law is touchy its not about what you did in these cases, you could have done everything possible to make your self defense legal, but prosecutors dont care. And i am sorry again for being harsh. but yes i looked it up as long as the barrel lenght and over all lenght makes it a pistol then you can carry it.