I have a 9mm DW Guardian that I'm extremely happy with. Check DW's website for their other commander models. I think they are a better value than Colt.

Details on the case holding all the mags?  @Hydra-shokz

I'll second the DW being a good choice!  I've got a 9mm Valor commander size and it's an awesome gun.  Compared to my Colts, it has a better trigger, better fit and finish and is probably more accurate.  I was able to pick one up used but new condition (not a scratch on it) and paid a comparable price to a Colt.

Its a great gun after you remove the crappy dual springs and spring guide and replace them with a standard commander length spring guide and a 14 lb variable rate spring from Wolfe. I own one and that's what I had to do to get it to run reliably. The other option was to send it back to Colt and I REALLY didn't want to do that with a new gun.

@Sanlanman

Would you recommend changing the springs in a Colt Commander 45acp? I just bought one about a month ago and finally took it to the range yesterday. Performed fine, but since I’m new to the 1911 and my Series 70 Colt Government didn’t have the dual recoil springs, I was wondering if I should swap them out.

Love my 9mm Guardian and is my winter carry.

I’d like to know as well.

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I have a Ruger 9mm Commander style with a LW frame and am very satisfied. I had a steel frame 5 in. Colt 9mm that ran great; though, I traded it off for something. It's only down side, if any, was the 80 Series lock work. I plan on keeping the Ruger.

It works fine?  Don't fuck with it.

Limp wrist it next time you shoot it...if it still functions then that means its sprung correctly.

I usually prefer a larger caliber in a 1911 pistol, but, my daughter needed a gun and couldn't pull back the slide on any of my full size 1911 10mm pistols. So, I bought her this one. A stainless DW Specialist Commander 9mm. I have to admit, in spite of the puny 9mm caliber, this pistol was pretty appealing. I almost wanted to keep this for myself. Match trigger, match barrel, light rail, and night sights. Like most DW pistols with match triggers, the trigger is amazing.

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SR1911 LWC is my current EDC.

That is my next 1911. I already have a DW Valor in .45 and can't say enough good things about it.

(and damn dude, you don't mess around when it comes to magazines! )

You asked about Colts, and I can provide input on that. Other brought up Dan Wesson, and I can speak to those as well.

I have a Colt CCU CCO, and it is a good pistol. It shoots like this (next to my GI Hellcat)



New it looked like this



It has never missed a beat, and it runs with the springs that Colt put into it. Never thought about changing them, either.

I have had 3 DW pistols, one of which was a custom. DW makes a fine pistol, and to some people it be all/end all of production pistols. They make a prettier pistol than Cold does, but it is only by a few degrees. It is a selling point to some people that DW does not have MIM parts, and I believe the Colt does. I have never had a failure of a Colt part.

In function, I saw no advantages with the DW pistols. In accuracy, the Colt is easily equal to the DWs I have had.

YMMV. Buy what you like, but don't be overly concerned that Colt makes a poor pistol.

If I had to have a Commander-sized gun and it couldn't be in 38 Super, a Colt in 9mm would be what I would pick up. YMMV.

Personally I prefer the S80 setup; I like the firing pin safety. Again, YMMV. If you don't carry AIWB, the firing pin safety may not matter to you.

Dan Wessons and some others are really appealing; good bang for buck value there...but, for me, if it's going to be a 1911, it's going to be a Colt. Unless there's a super deal to be had.

Commander-sized guns are the perfect size envelope for 9mm; the Commander was originally chambered in 9mm for the army trials in 1949. STI/Staccato/whatever their name is now has been working with Dawson to refine their 9mm double stacks and they've basically settled on a slide/barrel length the same as the original Commander size (give or take a fraction of an inch).

I got my wife a Colt Commander (LW) in 9mm about 25 years ago.  A gunsmith friend did some minor work on it to make more user friendly for my wife.  
He installed a King's bevertail grip safety, 21 lb. hammer spring, 12 lb. recoil spring, Novak F/R sight, Gun Site low ride thumb safety, polished and throated the barrel ramp, new tuned extractor and some other things to make it more reliable and user friendly for small ladies hand.  Pistol was used with 5 tuned/fitted Metalform 9 round mags only.  She used my handload of 115 gr FMJ @1,100 fps or Federal 9mm JHP 9BP for self-defense.  
My wife fired a little over 10k rounds in first 3 years and it never failed to fire.  It was 100% reliable.  From 25 yards it would shoot 2" groups with 9BP regularly by good shooters.  My wife preferred it over the Glock 19 and S&W 3916.  She felt more comfortable with the recoil of 9mm over 45 ACP.  
It was eventually retired when I got her a Browning Hi-power...which is her main handgun now days.