If you want a pistol a Glock or Glock clone, 17 or 19, just whatever suits your fancy. I'm kind of eyeing a Ruger RXM atm which is a glock clone with an fcu, comes with an optics cut from the factory for $399, and you can buy different sized grips from magpul for $39 (and hopefully Flux will have a chassis for it at some point)
For a rifle honestly just a 10/22. I shoot mine in my backyard basically every day, dirt cheap to shoot and endlessly customizable, great to practice the basics with.
As far as Taurus goes personally I've had good luck with them but I don't necessarily recommend them. The worst gun I've bought from them was my TX22 which is still fine, it just had a really crunchy trigger out of the box that ultimately cleared up after a few mags