Posted on 11/17/2011 12:34:11 AM PST by neverdem
The one thing my SIL pounded into my head was in reguard to the safety....remember RED IS DEAD..
If you’re just starting out, you’d be well advised to begin with a revolver, rather than a semi-auto, and a .22 rather than a larger caliber.
A nasty initial experience can turn one off to further shooting, and a mild and simple firearm to start with is a good idea.
I was at a Bass Pro Shops in Orlando. These British tourists were in the gun dept just amazed at all the guns for sale. They said they had never seen so many guns and couldnt believe people could just walk in and buy one.
I felt really sorry for them.
Or one could go to a gun range and work up to being able to handle a revolver.
What kind of fantastical dream world has this guy lived in for so many years?
Or was it a subliminal morbid fear of firearms, which is in reality a fear of oneself, that kept him so clueless for so long?
besides the i-phone which Apple produced, Obama and Holder can take credit for the growth of the gun industry.
Think of your future gun as a tool - a power tool. You need to know enough about it to select the right one for the job and you need to understand how to use it safely and effectively.
Talking with experienced gun owners will help you clarify your objectives and identify the kinds of guns that will meet your needs.
Find a gun shop and a gun range near you and talk to the people there for starters. They are usually quite knowledgeable and most ranges have guns you can rent or try. You can look at different guns, handle them, price them and get an idea of what appeals to you
If you have a friend or relative familiar with guns talk to them and pick their brains. Most gun owners will be happy to share info and experience with others and even take them along to do some shooting .
As others here have said, for personal defense you can’t go wrong with a .357 revolver (or a .38), and a 12 ga. pump shotgun for home defense to start with. These two weapons are probably the most common combination people start with.
As many people will tell you, a revolver is the simplest, safest, easiest to use and most reliable type of pistol. And the sound of a 12 ga. shotgun being cocked will strike fear in the most determined home invader.
Good luck.
“Or was it a subliminal morbid fear of firearms...”
It is subliminal perhaps in the sense that in the media, guns are usually related to violence and grime. Very rarely do you see the innocent victim defending themselves with a firearm.
I remember when I gathered my kids around to show them the pistol that I would be carrying around. My son was older and thought “that’s nice”. My young daughters were very concerned. I don’t recall exactly what they said, but I had the impression that they thought pistols were bad and only for bad guys. (They had shot the BB gun with me helping them hold it, and watched me shoot a shotgun).
Now they don’t think twice about it!
BTW - my wife for years had a similar reaction as my young daughters when I brought up the idea of having a pistol. Thank you Mr. Obama for changing her mind!
Don’t stop at one.
Lone Star Arms specialized in modifying the Saiga 12 into various configurations including the shortest legal barrel length.
Spendy......but very effective. It's modified to accept low and high grade munitions.
What all this amounts to is the baptism of fire of what I have taken to calling the "liberal superstructure." This superstructure is the vast constellation of advocacy groups, think tanks, single-issue outfits, unions, and various other flotsam constructed by the left over the past half-century or so. There are literally thousands of these groups, ranging from the ACLU and the Sierra Club with their hundreds of thousands of members to the local "Friends of the People's Venezuela" outfit which amounts to a retired feminism professor and her six cats. These organizations are ubiquitous, universal, and networked to a fare-thee- well. They are also liberalism's last great hope of controlling politics in the United States.
It's scarcely arguable that, in the political sense, liberalism is on the ropes. Obama spent their last nickel. They have lost the House and will lose the Senate, with little chance of regaining them in the near future. The same is true of the White House once the messiah gets the bum's rush come 2012. Liberalism is on the skids, its programs uniform failures, its ideology barren, its slogans worn out, its long hold on the independents being relentlessly pared down by the Tea Parties.
So what is a political movement to do, particularly one as fanatic and apocalyptic as this one? Well, if you have an alternate system made up of outside organizations not subject to governmental oversight, a system populated with self-selected fanatics and true believers, a system poised and ready to march, you can do what was done in Wisconsin. You can turn the superstructure loose to threaten the public peace, smash things up, abuse the electoral process, create a media spectacle, and pressure the state to do things your way. You can use nonpolitical organizations (in the electoral sense) to get a political result.
All the groups involved in the Wisconsin campaign were superstructure groups. The unions, the very core organizations of the superstructure, without which it's no more than a pack of vegetarians and aging hippies. The media, which serves as its propaganda arm. And the judiciary, which is broadly infiltrated by leftist partisans whose allegiance has been awarded to something other than the law."..................
So there will be no liberal Blitzkrieg coming out of the Wisconsin civil war. But these are early days, and this is the first effort to utilize this enormous and complex system. It remains pregnant with possibilities, with its millions of members and effectively infinite levels of funding. It is also the only thing that the liberals have left. We will encounter it again, perhaps in a more liberal-friendly environment in the Northeast or on the West coast."......
Once you buy it, get to the range, learn to use it, and shoot 2 -3 boxes a week.
Buy a lot of boxes, lots
Yes. Also join a gun range. Take time to learn how to field strip and clean your gun as well. Have fun!
No John, you should not buy a firearm. If you are doing this much soul searching about buying a tool, you are not yet ready. You said it’s easy to hit something with a shotgun (ie aiming is not that important)and that is not true. you have not done enough research. I would suggest you find a gun range where you can rent firearms and try some out. Get some one to show you the safe way to handle the tool. When it is time for you to own a firearm, you will know it.
The first thing you need to do is either take a hunter safety course or a gun safety course. If they are not available, learn the 10 commandments of gun safety which are widely available.
Think about safe handling of guns. Become something of a fanatic on the subject. If someone makes fun of you for being so careful, ignore them as they as stupid. Also get hearing and eye protection which are both inexpensive and required for learning.
Probably should buy a good quality .22 Auto or revolver. If you have a place to shoot it, do so often. If you don’t, but a good quality air pistol and pellet trap. Shoot it until you become reasonably proficient. A good starter air pistol is the Crosman 1377c. It is accurate and can be powerful if pumped to 10 pumps.
The .22 will be adequate for defense until you feel you can handle something larger. Some guns just seem to fit my hand way better than others. For example the Browning Hi-Power just feels like it was modeled just for me. Most people feel the .45 Automatic feels good in their hand.
If at all possible, find a place in the country (land owned by relatives is perfect) and do a lot of plinking. Always clean up afterward.
There has never been a more critical time to Lock and Load till your pocket book can’t stand it anymore.
If you need someone to tell you that you should buy a gun then you probably shouldn’t buy a gun.
Sure, if you want one.
NO!!! WHATEVER YOU DO, DO *NOT* BUY A GUN!!!
BUY *TEN* GUNS!!!
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