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If you want to be professional about it and have a more durable finish one of the epoxy base gun finishes like Lauer Duracoat or Brownell's Aluma-Hyde are the best.
However, you can use some of the paints you mentioned, and if they're a suitable oil based paint you can increase the durability by baking in your oven at 300 to 350 degrees for an hour. Read the label on the can, some newer paints can't be baked.
Some of the coatings like Duracoat and Aluma-Hyde are air curing, some others require baking.
The Lauer comes in many colors and is a two part mix that has to be sprayed with an airbrush, but it's TOUGH.
Note on baking in the oven:
Baking paints in the oven makes a bad smell.
Do this when your significant other is not home. This will give you time to bake the finish and air out the house so hopefully she doesn't notice.
If she finds out you'll get questions like "You did WHAT in MY OVEN????!!!!!!
(This sounds remarkably like a dull chain saw hitting a rusty tree spike).
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