I’m too lazy to click through and read the rest.
I like mid-priced guns. Rugers, Brownings, Smith & Wesson.
No Hi Points for me.
Good article! and I agree with the author. I shot a lot of partridge, grouse, pheasants, ducks and geese as a teen with my Westernfield 410 and Mossberg 12 gauge shotguns. Deer hunted with my neighbors old 8mm mauser and my own Model 94 30-30.
Lord help me, I’m glad that Janet Reno is dead. What an evil evil woman.
Not to worry about the short post - a scan of the article will tell the story. It boils down to this: having a gun close by when you need it is infinitely better than not having one. A corollary would be this: if one is confronted with a situation, it is better to have any kind of gun on your hip than no gun. Caliber is not important unless the perp is carrying a Desert Eagle. Usually just showing that you are armed is enough to end things safely.
There was a time in my life I had to borrow a cheap .22 pistol for protection from an imminent threat.
I was glad to have it.
Now I’m stocked with anything I could possibly need.
Buy what you can afford at your stage in life. Having something is better than nothing if that is your only choice.
1. The prosecutor was a dick.
2. Any gun will do in the right hands.
I only prefer my Kimbers because of bragging rights.
I’m happy with my Ruger autoloaders 12th. They are accurate and feed anything I put in them reliably. Can’t say that about my brother’s uber expensive modded 1911.
I advised my young adult son.
Most things you buy, you end up throwing away or selling it for a loss later in life. Don’t buy an new car, don’t buy a flagship phone, it is just throwing away money. But every gun I have purchased in my life is worth more now than when I bought it. Guns are an investment.
If you can buy a new cell you should already own a quality firearm.
Too cheap isn’t reliable. Too expensive and if you use it, it ends up in an evidence room somewhere. So you’re faced with one of two strategies: purchase moderately, or purchase so many guns that it doesn’t matter. I’m opting for the latter.
Just yesterday a neighbor brought an RG 14S (cheep German import. 22LR) needing a cylinder pin to me to see if I could find a pin for it. I gave him the info about “Saturday Night Specials” being a cheep gun and did he want to spend $29. for a pin. He said it was left to him by his father and he wanted it to fire. I ordered him one.
A “1976” date and his father’s name had been etched on the side. That was probably the year his father had bought it.
Perhaps we need to bring back the RG, IMP and EIG. The original “hotter than a two dollar pistol” pistols.
(OK, so they cost around $12.00 in 1968.)