Yes, because an unloaded pistol is nothing more than a really expensive, very inefficient club.
As I type this, I have an L-frame S&W revolver on my hip. In the past, it has been a 1911, a G-23, a striker-fired Kahr on the hip, or a smaller Kahr in the pocket, a j-frame in the pocket, and (one day) perhaps an LCP in the pocket.
I paid too much for each to use them as clubs.