RE: looking for a 9mm or a 45
If it is for self defense, .45 has far more stopping power. You MUST be vigilant in what is beyond your target, good high expansion hollowpoints help this, or Glaser Safety Slugs, but if you miss they penetrate walls very well.
The 9mm is much easier to conceal if that is an issue, again good hollowpoints help with terminal energy delivered, but it is till a smaller round. There is a reason all the troops are complaining, not about the Baretta, but the stopping power of the ammo. A .40 is a really good compromise. I carry a 1911 .45 concealed, if you have 10 or 20 extra pounds they conceal pretty well, especially with a good inside the waist band holster. Don't buy the uncle mikes stuff, spend some money on a good holster. It doesn't have to be $100, but for most people 15 isn't either. I have several cheap holsters lying around that just didn't work.
If you use a glock remember the primary safety is the double action trigger pull, always carry it in a holster, not tucked in the belt.
I love my 1911, but as with many of them it does not like hollowpoints, it was built for FMJ and that is what it likes.
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