I actually made the same decision 3 months ago. Both are pretty big guns and if you have small hands you'll have some trouble with the grip.

I personally purchased the 226 over the CZ75. While the CZ75 is a great gun the P226 is refined in almost ever single way.

The Alloy Frame of the 226, IMO, makes the gun noticeably lighter in the hands.
Sig has more options - I opted for the Tacops version which has the SRT Trigger, Night Sights in back and fiber sight in the front, enhanced beaver tail, 20 rd cap mags (blocked to 10 by OGC) where as you dont get those options with the CZ.
The trigger IMO is better
The grip is slightly thinner.

Both are great guns and ill probably own a CZ down the line. The one plus for the CZ is its about half the cost of the P226 i bought

One thing to keep in mind while reloading .223 is that if you are using Hornady bullets like A-Max, V-Max of Z-Max, between 50 and 55 grains, the Lee Dies, out of the box wont seat them deep enough. The nice thing is I emailed Lee last week and the sent me a brand new bullet plug made to seat the smaller bullets for free. It just came in the mail today in less than 5 days, for free.

Lee has been awesome!

I too am interested in this pistol. I took a look at Steyr Arms website and saw that Honolulu Firearms was one of the only Steyr dealers in Hawaii (the other being on Kauai). With that being said i went down to Honolulu Firearms to see if they had any in stock so I could handle it and unfortunately they don't.

What's even more unfortunate is when i asked "Do you guys by any chance have a Steyr M9-A1 or the M40-A1?" they first though it was a rifle, specifically he thought i meant an Aug, then once i explained it was a pistol, they said "Oh the Double Action, Single Action one?"

Complete Fail.

Let me know if you find anywhere that has one, I'd love to handle the gun before i pull the trigger (no pun intended) and buy one off gun broker or something.

It is her RIGHT to defend herself if she chooses.  Why would you put a restriction on her because YOU feel she cannot handle the situation.  I know plenty grandmas that can handle most any situations, maybe physically not fair so well, but mentally hard as rocks.

Im not arguing with you. If she can physically and mentally handle the situation, can properly handle a firearm and wants to take on the responsibility, by all means go for it. I just dont see a stereotypical 90lb, 4'7" grandma (whose probably 90 years old) be able to do so reasonably and responsibly is all. You said it yourself, she may physically not fair so well. That to me is a liability.

It's just like letting an 90 year old man whose sight may be going, drive a large semi (to further exaggerate my point). Yes they may be able to physically drive and mentally want to drive, but in old age, sight goes, reaction time slows down and fine motor skills go, all a bad combination when doing things like driving, or in the case were discussing, shooting a gun. At some point in everyones life we become more of a liability than anything else in certain situations like driving.

Would you trust that same person who is no longer able to drive shoot a gun? This is really common with surgeons and pilots and their careers. Would you allow that same person who is physically so-so perform open heart surgery on you? Mentally they could be sharp as hell and they could have performed the operation a million times, but one wrong twitch due to getting old and Heavies be dead.

Believe me im all for carrying and i do believe its everyones right to own and carry a gun - but regardless, there are some people, no matter their willingness to, that shouldn't be allowed to carry for liability reasons.

I agree with the comment that ample training should be needed to carry a firearm, wether it be Conceal or Open Carry. But I disagree that a handgun safety course would suffice in this training. I've seen people come out of the safety course not even knowing how to unload a gun or that could properly cock a handgun.

Carrying, IMO, is a huge responsibility and much like being a Pilot, not only should you have the proper training, but also in some way should need to show a history of courses/training completed and time logged both going through training in stress situations, shooting, and handling that SPECIFIC firearm that you will carry. There are people who are willing to take on the responsibility and others who aren't. I for one, think, that for myself, the risk and responsibility of carrying greatly outweigh the probability that shit will happen and I will actually need to use one of my firearms.

While this won't stop criminals from doing whatever they want. I doubt a beginner (myself included) should a situation arise, react reasonably and properly, in the proper mindset, trying to stop some whack job that has a gun and shooting up the place. I can see instances where more harm then good would ensue.

As you all saw these crazy guys getting their gun jammed trying to kill people (Oregon and that political one in Europe) got the crap kicked out of them because their weapons failed and it wasnt second nature to them to clear the jam and proceed (in this instance good) but imagine that happening to a good guy whom was trying to stop a crazy who hasnt shot anyone? After than instance the crazy would panic and bullets will fly ultimately injuring and killing people who may have been better off in the first place and possibly giving the crazy yet one more loaded weapon.

I speak for only myself in saying this  (and you can call me a pussy if you want) but I for one am not sure that i could shoot or kill someone. I know both military and police who also aren't sure that they could do this either and some of them are marines who are trained to kill!.

In summary, I believe there are non military, non leo citizens out there who should, are trained for, and are mentally equipped, to carry. But to give someone that responsibility, whom isnt trained, whether they want to carry or not, could make a bad situation worse.

Correct me if im wrong but is she also considering all semi-automatic pistols an "Assault Weapon"?

Mahalo Mongoose. So was SEC,

The FN Five Server sounds like an interesting gun. I was just wondering what that availability of 5.7 x 28 ammo is in Hawaii? I know right now ammo it out every where but do the local shops, SEC, OGC, YoungGuns bring this in on a regular basis?

I just got a primary arms red dot scope that came yesterday. Thing is pretty good quality for 89 bucks! I havent taken it to the range yet but affixed it on my M&P 15-22 and am really happy with is so far. Came in two days and shipping was only like 12 bucks

OGC was nutz this morning. I got there at 8am and luckily was one of the first out the door with my guns. I headed over to Norm's Sports Shop  and then made it to the police station. Seriously like right after i got there (at the first pilar) the line got huge and went all the way to the diamond head side wall with everyone from OGC. Got there at 11 left at 1:45. I bet a lot of the braddahs and sistahs didnt make it in the door.