For less than $1,000, you can pick up a Sig P229 in .40 cal. Holds 12+1, double/single action. No safety. Ready to rock, nail-driver accurate, reliable as it gets.
As the biker said, if you got a ten dollar head, buy a ten dollar helmet.
$1000.00? I could get a shotgun, S&W 9mm, a SKS, ammo and a case of MRE’s. What do you think this is a government project?