I might be old fashion, but i suggest if you have a never owned a handgun to look at picking up a 22 auto or revolver. There are many advantages of 22 as far as plinking, cheap to shoot, and overall workinging on your fundementals. A perfect example is my Sig P220. Its originally chambered in 45, but i have the conversion to 22 on it. With the conversion, i can work on trigger control and sighting and it as made me better at shooting the 45. Many guns are capable of being convert to 22, Glocks as well if i am not mistaken. Any how, just my 2 cents.

btw Armslist.com is a pretty good place to find guns locally.....just watch out for over priced guns.