I saw a note on Sportsman's Warehouse listed for $1059.00 (or thereabouts.)
I'd like to revise an earlier statement.
The 5 1/2" barrel will launch a 230-grain bullet as will a 6 1/4" 1911. Think about that when you load the revolver with +p ammunition.
The driver in Portland had a mannequin in the passenger seat. The Portland Police Officer on his motorcycle wasn't fooled at all. The maximum fine of $155.00 wasn't worth it.
That is nice, but I have a couple of reservations about the .45 Colt in S&W's "N" frame.
Handloaders like to "firewall" the cartridge, causing the lighter-frame S&W pistols to shoot loose far sooner than the Ruger Redhawk and Super Blackhawk revolvers.
It is more costly to shoot factory .45...
I never was into the Star Trek Next Generation, Voyager, etc. I am sad to hear of his passing, but...
After 1969 the original "Star Trek" motion pictures were about all I cared to see. After that... meh.
Daddy had a 1917 with a 7" barrel (rare). I touched off a 230-grain RNL in his bedroom and destroyed an Avon bottle called the Viking Horn (It contained Avon's "Wild Country" after shave.)
Startled the snot out of me!
I think the 1917 would make a great defensive revolver. (It would be...
Here's what one near to me costs. (At the Sportsman's Warehouse.) The best part of it is the pistol is NIB!
https://www.sportsmans.com/shooting-gear-gun-supplies/handguns/zastava-arms-m57a-762x25mm-tokarev-45in-blued-steel-pistol-91-rounds/p/1791344
You might want to look at the Zastava (Yugoslavian) TT57 (M57) You may be able to find it for less and with an extra round longer magazine.
Happy hunting.