I have to disagree on the 9mm. THere is a reason that most law enforcement departments are goign up to the 40s and the 45s. The nine is just not powerful enough. I' m sure a lot of people are killed with them but the fact remains that they are just not getting it done well enough. You simply can' t make the 9mm as leathal a round as the bigger 40, 10mm, or 45. Granded you can take the best 9mm load and compare it to a weaker 45 load and say the 9mm is better all you want but all things being equal the 40, 10mm, and 45 are more powerfull and sometimes that added power is needed. I' m sure that most anybody would be perfectly satisfied with thier 9mm concealed carry gun 98% of the time, but for that 2% of the time I would perfer to jump up to the 40 s&W at least. I had a HK USP Compact in 40S&W that was a real joy to carry and shoot. That would be my first choice in a concealed carry gun. I have a Taurus Tracker Ti in 41 mag that is also really nice to carry. It doesn' t weight hardly anything and is small enough to hide fairly easily. If you shoot a 9 and like it, more power to you, but I want to know that if I have to shoot something I want to drop it at the shot and the 9mm hasn' t proven that it can do that reliably enough for me.