Repeat after me: real life is not Rainbow Six.
Sure, lots of guns have features of debatable utility that are somehow supposed to make them “tactical.” That doesn’t mean you need them. Nor should those be the basis for the selection of a self-defense firearm.
Essentially, the list of priorities should read as follows:
- Reliability
- Controllability
- Reliability
- Accuracy
- Reliability
- Ergonomics
- Reliability
- Caliber
- Reliability
- Capacity
- Reliability
See the pattern? The most important factors boil down to this: get a gun that works and that you can shoot well. Everything else is peripheral.