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Taurus has a reputation of not doing the best fitting. Sometimes their stuff is shoddy. This does not mean all their guns are crap. However, let the buyer beware.
I shoot tens of thousands of rounds a year. My gun dealer (Virginia Arms) won't sell me a Taurus. His experience is they're decent guns for low round count shooters. If you shoot 50 rounds a month, it'll probably be fine for a long time.
The FNP, on the other hand, made by FN Herstal, is a NEW design. I don't like new designs because they tend to have bugs in them. Recent examples include S&W's new semi-automatic M&P with frame and slide cracks and SIG P220 Carry failure to feed issues. (citation: M&P Pistol forum (threads with pictures) and SIG Forum user comments, including gunsmith Bruce Gray of Gray Guns, Inc)
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I highly recommend you go with an older design with a proven track record. Examples include various models from Glock, Beretta, SIG, HK, S&W (not the M&P or Sigma), Springfield Armory (XD is still new), CZ, Browning, FN, and Ruger. There may be a few I missed (but Kahr is not one of them).