Yeah, I have had very little experience with guns before and once I moved from Illinois over to Indiana, it was something I wanted to try. My co-worker, chizzle, has been showing me the ropes lately and he has managed to get most of the guns that I listed. I shot the glock 17 the other day and was not as happy with it as I was with the xdm. It may have been just the barrel length that was buggin me.