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The idea of a "display" gun is a BAD one.
If you've drawn your gun, it needs to be in response to an immidiate, concrete, credible threat. In such a case, it needs to be reliable, accurate, and comfortable, because you may need to fire it RIGHTNOW.
In a situation such as you're preparing for, you have a "display" gun and a "work" gun. If a situation goes bad, you're stuck either relying on an unfamilliar, potentially unreliable weapon, or holstering/dropping your "display" piece to draw your "work" gun. That takes time, and in a gunfight time is literally everything. When your lifespan is potentially being measured in heartbeats, you don't need a malfunction and you don't need to be fumbling.
Secondly, that kind of brandishing (and that's what it is; brandishing) is a highly unprofessional way to approach the situation. Not only is it a nasty case of "Above The Law Syndrome," but also a potential escalating factor as well. It's illegal for a Civillian to brandish their weapon and should be (but isn't) for skip-chasers and LEOs. You don't use your gun to intimidate people, "persuade" people, browbeat people, get their attention, or direct traffic. You keep your hands off the bastard until and unless you're being directly and concretely threatened with severe injury or death. Cops forgetting this simple rule is why they keep shooting themseleves, their partners, and occaisionally bystanders or prisoners. Unless someone is threatening you with imminent sever injury or death, leave your weapon in the holster. That's the law for Civillians like us, and if you as a LEO can't follow it, you need to find a different line of work.
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