Originally Posted by WarChild

I'm looking to pick up a handgun in Costa Rica to keep in the house and start going to the range a bit with (a friend of mine there is a police officer that keeps begging me to come). I've fired handguns a few times over the years but never been serious about the sport.

I'm down to between these two guns:

Glock19 9mm (new)
Desert Eagle 9mm (used, belongs to a police officer)

Anybody familiar with these two guns? Suggestions?