[Darteaus94025]

WARNING: OPINIONS FOLLOW.

Look at total cost of ownership, i.e. include cost of ammo.

S&W Bodyguard - 38: low recoil, no ejection/feeding malfunctions, and you can keep it in a jacket pocket and it will fire w/o catching on anything, cheap ammo.

FN Five-Seven: Very controllable recoil, very accurate, devastating round, expensive.

Springfield XD: 9mm +P, good all around, “lawman” ammo will take down anyone, cheap ammo.

.38, .40, .45 and 9mm - SOOOOooooo last century. .17HMR and Five-Seven - high speed, light round, devastating delivery of energy.

[Billthedrill]

One thing about the Five seveN, though - I love mine, but ammo ain't cheap and it's touchy to reload. Fun gun to shoot, flat trajectory, low recoil, but you have to deduct points for a cartridge that, when you show it to people, they say, "Awww, cute!" It's humiliating. I mean, when the Wehrmacht faced the Minutemen at San Juan Hill, did General Beauregard say "cute!"? I think not.

And who can argue with that?