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Methinks you ought to get a .22 handgun clone of a full-size, so if you wanted to get a M&P 9mm someday you'd have a cheap practice option with the M&P 22. Same story with a 1911. Picklz has a sweet .22 sig 1911 in the above pic, that would be a really nice compliment to a full size .45 1911.