I have been up and down the handgun caliber spectrum myself, buying handguns in calibers I "thought" were the best from the information I thought I "knew" at the time.
But like anything else in life, the longer you live and are exposed to certain things, the more you learn about them and begin putting them into perspective.
People need to understand that our guns and ammo are supplied by company's, companies like to make a profit, so when they come out with the latest and greatest and most powerful product, they are marketing to sell a product, to make a profit.
What a person needs to ask themselves is if that new product will fill a "need" for them. I have been a die-hard .357, 9mm, .45 acp and .40 s&w fan, but as I have learned, they can all do roughly the same thing with the appropriate type of ammo.
My latest loyalty was to the .40 s&w, but I never carried those caliber pistols with me because of the size, I realized that a pistol I didn't have on me was worthless, so I began re-considering the 9mm.
There are many who do not regard the 9mm as enough gun for defensive use. But considering it is more powerful than the .38 spl, a caliber regarded by most everyone as the most effective caliber for decades, it has proven to work sufficiently enough.
Consider that it was the choice of the German's during WWI and WWII for use by front-line troops in pistols and in sub guns. If it were not effective enough then the allies surely would not have started to chamber their sub guns in 9mm or issue pistols in 9mm as well.
Not ccw'g my .40 cal pistol all the time made me start searching for pistols I could ccw easily. The 9mm has the best choices in small sized pistols aside from the .380. So I have a small light-weight 9mm pistol that I do ccw all the time. But I believe one should be able to fire whichever pistol they ccw accurately, if you cannot fire it accurately, then you might as well not even have it.
But like anything else in life, the longer you live and are exposed to certain things, the more you learn about them and begin putting them into perspective.
People need to understand that our guns and ammo are supplied by company's, companies like to make a profit, so when they come out with the latest and greatest and most powerful product, they are marketing to sell a product, to make a profit.
What a person needs to ask themselves is if that new product will fill a "need" for them. I have been a die-hard .357, 9mm, .45 acp and .40 s&w fan, but as I have learned, they can all do roughly the same thing with the appropriate type of ammo.
My latest loyalty was to the .40 s&w, but I never carried those caliber pistols with me because of the size, I realized that a pistol I didn't have on me was worthless, so I began re-considering the 9mm.
There are many who do not regard the 9mm as enough gun for defensive use. But considering it is more powerful than the .38 spl, a caliber regarded by most everyone as the most effective caliber for decades, it has proven to work sufficiently enough.
Consider that it was the choice of the German's during WWI and WWII for use by front-line troops in pistols and in sub guns. If it were not effective enough then the allies surely would not have started to chamber their sub guns in 9mm or issue pistols in 9mm as well.
Not ccw'g my .40 cal pistol all the time made me start searching for pistols I could ccw easily. The 9mm has the best choices in small sized pistols aside from the .380. So I have a small light-weight 9mm pistol that I do ccw all the time. But I believe one should be able to fire whichever pistol they ccw accurately, if you cannot fire it accurately, then you might as well not even have it.