I'm sure there's an opinion or two
Personally I'd be into buying a handgun for using down at the range and for taking into the woods for self-defense.
Under the law though I can either keep the gun at the range where I can't appreciate it or I can keep it at home where I can appreciate it but not use it and never the twain shall meet. And also I can't take it in the woods either. Kinda takes the "fun" out of it.
Now by fun I don't mean swaggering around in public talking like Dirty Harry and using it to open beer cans; I'm not an idiot. Just feels to me like the spirit is gone. Know what I mean?