I believe for personal protection, the 9mm and the 357/38Spl are pretty well dialed in. New ammo developments continue to make them better.
Particularly the 9mm, has economy of mass quantity. Probably will be the most popular defensive handgun chambering for a good time to come.
In short, it's tough to beat the 9mm at it's own game.
As much as I’m a proponent of the .357 sig for certain applications, overall you’re correct.
After doing a lot of side-by-side comparisons on vehicles, etc I still believe that for ‘my’ application the sig has some advantages. The advantages of 9mm cost outweighs it, though, when looking at the larger picture.
Thus, the 9mm professionally but I keep an identical gun in .357.
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