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the responses above are good and I dont want to add more to them about gun manufacturers.

i would ask you to think about the caliber a bit.

Why a .40?
Why not a 9mm or .45?
Round count vs a .45, a .40 has more, but less than a 9mm on the same platform.

stopping power of a 9mm vs a .45 or .40?
that is always a good question, but FBI statistics have shown that the .40 and 9mm are not that much different and if I remember some of my reading on this forum correctly, the 9mm may have had more penetration than the .40.

cost of the rounds?
9mm is cheaper than the .40

Availability of the rounds
9mm is more available than the .40 (and I am thinking more of when ammo was short after Sandy Hook.

personally speaking, I have the 9mm, .40 and .45 of the M&P.
I shoot the 9mm the best, the .45 next and am horrible with the .40.

The .40 seems to kick more than even the .45, which seems strange, but true (at least with the M&P's.