Exactly.
My very first permit to have in my possession a handgun was issued in Cambridge, MA of all places. I got my training from the instructor of the MIT shooting team at the range under the campus basketball court.
I, a native Texan, a shooter since childhood, was dismayed that I could only travel with it from home to the practice range and back, and if I used it in self-defense at home, I would have to prove that I couldn't escape the assailant. That's just nuts.
I've owned a couple of 9mm pistols. A Browning and a Taurus.
Alarmed by the reputation around 9mm rounds going through the intended target (assailant) and continuing its trajectory to possibly injure innocent bystanders, and wanting something in a larger caliber, lower velocity for the knock-down power (round delivers all its momentum, stays in the intended), but not wanting to lug around a 45, my next purchase, based on what an Oklahoma state trouper friend was carrying, was a 40 S&W Sig-Sauer.P229
Probably not that much lighter than a 45.
When I shot it for the fist time to get familiar with it before going to get my Texas License to Carry I exclaimed SWEET!