Actually, the only handguns I own are 9mm and .38 special. My next gun will likely be a 9mm Glock, which I will choose mostly because of the pistol, not because I'm especially enamored of the cartridge. It's a compromise round, but it has advantages as well as limitations. What I won't do is try to pretend those limits don't exist.
The point I'm making is not that 9mm is inherently bad, but that I disagree with the OP's assertion: That because European armies use 9mm ball, we should too. It's right there in post #1.
The rest of my posting is just recreational back-and-forth.
