Had a .45 and 9mm PX4… sold both.
They are great shooters. The .45 feels like a 9mm. Beretta did a great job keeping the .45 grip down by doing the 9 round magazine. Mine were both factory F guns, and converted to G. The .45 was done with Stealth controls… which are nice, but best they are decock only.
You’ll eventually get someone that will come in and say X agency needed to use a mallet to disassemble them. Not my experience. And it wasn’t the experience of the few agencies I’ve dealt with that carried them. Grease the lock work and done… or get it nickel boron plated (I did on both of mine).
I got rid of mine because my agency went to Glocks… specifically the 19 Gen 5 MOS. So, why have two guns that I will likely not carry? The .45 was traded when I got my 30S, which also was sold (liked it, but might as well carry my duty gun if I’m carrying something that large).
Have a 9mm CX4, which I had setup to take PX4 magazines. Converted it back to 92 magazines when I sold the other PX4, to pair back to my 92 Brigadier Inox. I kept my CZ SP-01 as a hammer fired gun… and do want to grab a Springfield Hi-Power.
But sort of moved to 9mm Glocks for the magazine compatibility. My 19 magazines fit in my 9mm AR pistol… and those magazines fit in both my duty gun and P80 (retro one, not Polymer 80).
I want to get a 34… or at least a Gen 3 slide for some more options with the P80 frame. But also want one of those LWD frames that take a full size slide, but compact magazines. Probably will also get a 26 Gen 5 at some point… to complete most of the family tree (don’t want a 17L… too long).
On the topic of hammer/striker…there are still plenty of hammer fired guns out. H&K, traditional SIGs… hell, didn’t Springfield do a hammer fired XD? Is that still a thing? And of course who wouldn’t say 1911?
Striker fired is definitely the driving force in pistols, mainly due to cost, ease of manufacture, and how simple they are to train on (think of the push to DAO and those LEM triggers in LE years back… which I had a H&K P2000 LEM for the first year with my current job). It’s not a new system… look back at early Colts and even the Luger. But there are plenty of people who rather have their thumb over the hammer of a DA/SA pistol when holstering to confirm they aren’t going to have a bunched up shirt give them a ND.