At 37 years old...I am going to own my first gun in less than a month. I go next weekend for the CCW class, and then I will decide what caliber of weapon I want.
I may have to look through some of those threads and see if I can pick up any important info that will be useful to me! I need something that will not only stop a person in their tracks, but will drop them like a lead weight at close range! Any ideas?
Well, a .45 will drop pretty much anyone. A .40 will also do the job. A 9mm is smaller but is usually enough for stopping power. Anything smaller than that (.380, .25, .22) might be too small. Then there are the .38's and the .357's. It depends on where you live too. Is it highly populated? Factors like that do make a difference. Also how much you shoot. The bigger the gun, the more expensive the ammo. Hollow points are for carrying and they are expensive. Practice rounds are cheaper and also less powerful b/c they have less grains.