Toreksha, You will love the XD-45. I bought mine recently and it is the finest pistol I have ever owned. When you add to that the pistol has a lifetime warranty, I say, "What more can you ask?" I have been impressed for several years with SA's 1911 pistols and M1 Garand rifles (I still want one of those babies.) and when I saw the XD and now the XDM line, I read everything I could get my hands on. When it came time to replace my Firestar, I only considered one pistol, the XD-45. I don't care that the modern Sprinfield Armory is not a direct link to the original. I don't care that the guns are manufactured in Croatia. I wouldn't care if they were made by elves in a hollow tree. They are the best handguns I have seen yet. Bar none. I respect Glock Fan and his right to believe what he wishes, but I don't understand how he can say yhe Glock has any advantage over the XD. I wish him all the luck and hope he has a blast with his Austrian gun. Just because the Austrian army pays $85 a copy for the same pistol we are charged $600 for here. It is a pretty good gun. I had a Glock 17 when they first came out. I don't know if it was the gun or the 9mm round it fired, I was underwhelmed. When you have a .45ACP pistol with no frame mounted safety to remember to click off as you draw, that holds 13 in the magazine and one in the tube. A gun that is easy to hold and shoot, being both light and with low recoil (once thought to be impossible), and can deliver the impact of a brick through a plate glass window, then you are holding a SA XD-45 in your hot little hand.