Boy, I'm some sort of slacker.
My first handgun was very nearly a Desert Eagle. I would have got it, but in the time it took to arrange the logistics of getting a purchase permit (I was in college at the time) through my home-town PD, and returning it; a killer deal on a pre-ban (this was a couple years into the Clinton AWB) Ruger P89 came up that I jumped on instead. Nothing I've purchased since came close to the price of the DE that nearly was.