Man, ya gotta get a "Broomhandle!"
If you are collecting 9MM handguns, naturally you'll want a P7.
You'll also need to cover the 1911 types AND the wheelgun types.
There are a lot of 9mm types that have been made . . . and ultimately maybe you'll want to add some of the Class III types like a Glock 18.
THE BDM . . .
I once owned a bi-tone BDM that I'd bought new. GORGEOUS LOOKING . . . WONDERFUL GRIP . . . nice and compact.
I was shooting a lot of pistol matches and decided this thin little 9mm would be a great CCW gun too, so I bought it. I broke it in with the care of a benchrest rifleman . . . shooting ten rounds, cleaning it, shooting ten more, cleaning it, etc. for 250 rounds. I wanted this gun shooting as slick as all my others did!
A thousand rounds later . . .
--The BDM had gone back to the factory to replace the front sight, which had disintegrated partially!
--It also was NOT very accurate, and I believe any handgun MUST be accurate, lest it fail you mortally, but this thing wouldn't shoot tight groups with ANY factory round or handload I could get my hands on.
--It shot really high too, even with lighter bullets . . . and even after Browning replaced the front sight with a taller one. Here's a photo of the target sent to Browning showing the 4 3/8" high sight regulation with 115 gn. bullets. NOTE: For perspective I've superimposed a photo of my little Kimber .45ACP with a typical 10 yd. target it shoots so folks can see how high, and HOW SPREAD a BDM shoots at ten yards. Bad indeed.
Worse, that danged thing was a jam-o-matic . . . and locked up and failed me at every match I shot it in, both before and after its trip back to Browning.:banghead:
THE FINAL STRAW . . .
I was crusing to victory in a three-table pin match . . . only to have it jam on the final table once again. A grizzled old Marine was watching . . . a former Camp Perry pistol champion decades before. He shouted out, as I left the line, "Hey Turner, when are you gonna get rid of that piece of schidt Browning?"
He was right, of course, I'd given it much too much attention and time. That gun would NEVER be the accurate, dependable handgun I'd envisioned it being . . . and I traded it off soon afterwards.
SADLY . . . the BDM WOULD be my preferred 9mm today . . . if it was accurate and dependable. It was a gun that came out a little too late (just before the Clinton high-cap ban) but also a gun that came out too EARLY too (rushed onto the market before all the bugs were worked out).
It could have gone down as a great gun . . . if the high cap ban hadn't come when it did.
I STILL WISH SOMEONE WOULD CLONE THAT SLIM, PERFECT GRIP . . . and release a gun that worked on that size high cap frame.
Enough of this rant!
T.