A few years ago when my book “Greatest Handguns” came out from the Gun Digest people, we did this interview explaining what the selection process had been.
Obviously, such choices would be largely subjective, but the interview went to the objective part. The book turned out to be so popular that we did a second volume, to include the great pistols and revolvers that had been “left on the cutting room floor” from the first volume.
Both are available on Amazon: Volume I here and Volume !! here.
And I still stand by the choices.
Or watch video here.