for a better than glock there are many choices, glock is just sale to leo and hope rest buy. They are mid range and plentiful with cheap mags standard calibers, it would not be my pistol of choice if that was last one I ever got.
They do fit girly hands well but the frames are small and the finger guards don’t do well, with gloves expecially winter ones.
But like everyone else has been saying it is what works for your fit size of hands, recoil, suppression, concealment and ammo availability.
I have rare ammo types pistols but just because they are fun, long term I think they will be expensive paper weights or re tooled in shft event. Gun is an expensive crappy club with no ammo.
At least with glock you should be able to find mags and parts as they are like dandelions everywhere.
For me hk socom 45 then sig226 navy 9mm for a wheel gun colt python 357. the sig mosquito or a ruger mark3 or 4 for 22lr. The mosquito I find is better training weapons as looks and feel are basically same as 9mm version so very little change over training from 22lr to 9mm.
Honestly in shft I would have a shot gun for close range they are devastating. Not much accuracy required and have the fear factor… no one wants to charge a shotty. Cheap plentiful ammo though it is bulky. Usually one and done with 12 gauge even a lvl 4 vest with plates in will leave you stunned, wheezing and drooling out of fight if it hits on vest but buckshot does spread and can remove limbs from action.
I will say one more.thing on this, there are uses for pistols, but in real world two way shooting ranges a cqb rifle is far superior to any hand gun in both ammo capacity, stopping power, penetration of consealment, distance. That is why soldiers get rifles not pistols, and cops get pistols with shot gun and rifle in trunk. If planning for shft I would spend more on cqb rifles as your opponents will have handguns for you to aquire after. Most likely a glock lol
