I was recently standing at the LGS, not my local gun shop but one relatively close by. Guy comes in and B lines right for the glock display, he's looking.....looking......looking. Says kind of in a huff and gruf way "you guys don't carry any Glock .40's" and the guy behind the counter tells him "we get em in from time to time but we don't really sell too many, mostly 9mm and .45" so the .40 guy just scoffs in disbelief (as if there could be any other caliber worthy of this display case), at this point the seller asks him if he owns any handguns in .40 and if he was specifically after a .40 (which he obviously was) or if he was just looking for a general purpose handgun....
He actually didnt own any guns and this was to be his first but he was going .40 all the way and there wouldn't be any discussion of 9mm, he wanted the one shot stopping power of the almighty .40 cal, shhiiit 9mm bounce right off a windshield, shhiiiiit, mf talk'n bout 9mm, maybe .45, maybe, maybe .45. But 9mm? Not this sucka.
It was humorous, I embellish a lil but that was basically the spirit of the discussion and I just kinda chuckled. Guy knew what he was after, no problem with that, each their own but I think he was a lil misinformed about the adequacy of 9mm as a defensive cartridge. I had my head twisted around a lil bit when I was younger so for the longest time I didn't look twice at AR's or glocks or 9mm. I've known some .45 guys. I have since been educated...