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Originally Posted by Rednine11

Glock........

Springfield XD, comes in many sizes and flavors. Super reliability. They were built to have the best traits of a Glock, but be better. There are more safety features on the XD than the Glock.

9mm is a good way to go.

Really, the best thing if you want to buy a gun, go shoot as many different guns as you can. You may find a Pelican that is local that would be happy to go to the range with you, you may be able to go to a local range and rent several different guns, or you may be able to pay someone to let you shoot their guns.

I went to the range and shot about 10-12 different guns, I used that experience to narrow it down. The guns that I found the easiest to shoot and be accurate with. I ended up having to choose between the Glock and the XD. The two guns are VERY similar. There was just something about the XD that I liked better, but it was so minor that I couldn't put my finger on it.