Posted on 01/27/2024 4:16:38 AM PST by MtnClimber
The current reasons that many, many more are buying guns are not the past’s ‘regular’ reasons.
It’s a .38 Special revolver. Up until one month ago, I had scant idea what such a gun looked like or could do. My husband eventually made the decision to get a gun, which surprised me a little as he is a very peaceable man. Yet, he is a lover of the U.S. Constitution: peaceable, but no fool. This week is our 30th anniversary. For our anniversary present, we bought the gun together.
We have talked about buying a gun over the past few years. We live in the South in a semi-rural area bordering the Gulf of Mexico. Traditionally, gun ownership is considered mostly normal here. It is by and large a quiet, working-class, family area, and nobody thinks of gun ownership as a threat to anyone but to those with evil intent.
However, the current reasons that many, many more are buying guns are not the past’s ‘regular’ reasons; nor were our own reasons, this week, in any way ‘regular.’ It was a scary decision, but we are not interested in being shot, molested, raped, or carted off from our home. We would rather take a stand for ourselves, for our lives. Our reluctance to submit to the growing tyranny in the United States has reached, if not our doorstep yet, a place in the core of our hearts. This is happening everywhere, to all sorts.
Isn’t it interesting how much firepower the FBI commands, and how they regularly and with impunity break down the doors of the common people now? Isn’t it curious how Joe Biden makes such a big noise about guns, but lives, travels, and sleeps in fortresses of one sort or another -- stationary or mobile? ...
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Good choice for a novice. Revolvers don’t jam and they go bang until empty. Anyone who steers a beginner to a semiauto is doing them a huge disservice.
At least that's what I'm going to do if I ever do purchase a firearm. Officer.
A new shooter doesn't have to worry about limp-wristing a revolver as they would have to worry about with a semi-automatic.
True enough, but a revolver is a good first gun. Simple, and reliable.
I’ve only had one gun ever which people claimed was jamming because I “limpwristed” it. Well now well over a decade later and I own almost 100 guns and I’ve never had another constantly stove pipe like that one did.
My wrists somehow magically got much much stronger when I was shooting any other gun.
Which leads me to think “limpwristing” isn’t a real problem. Crappy jam-o-matics are a problem.
Sweet shotgun. I inherited my father’s British Enfield .303 that was surplus sale from WWI stock. Still has the adjustable open sights, and is awesome to shoot. We used it for moose hunting in the it’s.
“Our first gun”
Who the hell says that?🙄
Simplicity and reliability are good points.
I bought a duty sized revolver in my seventies despite familiarity with a variety of pistols and small revolvers. First is that its condition of readiness is always the same. No safety to concern yourself with in time of need. Chamber is always full. Operation is built into muscle memory in a way that pistols can’t mimic.
Secondly, cancer treatments make nerve and strength in your hands deteriorate. Revolvers are much less prone to operational errors when you have that limitation.
Wife can use it without constant practice once familiar with the weapon. I find that pistols require annual retraining due to lack of use over a lifetime.
Third, light 38 fits just like heavy 357 Mag.
I just find it strange that these people talk about buying a firearm like it’s a child adoption or some other life altering decision.
It’s just another TOOL you LIBERAL idiots.
I have hammers, screwdrivers, chainsaws, power drills, tractors, you name the tool I probably have it out in the barn.
Every tool has a specific purpose and job to do; a screwdriver is to drive screws, a power saw is to cut lumber, a chainsaw is to drop and buck trees, a socket set it to install and remove nuts and bolts.
A “gun” is to protect my family and property, just another tool!
I am glad that people are finally starting to realize that the police and or the State is not there to protect them and they have to do it for themselves, but please stop acting like buying a firearm is a LIFE ALTERING DECISION, it’s NOT!
“Most people can’t hit squat with a pistol.”
Most can at under 10 feet - if they don’t freak out. J-frames are best as Belly Guns: shove it in the attacker’s belly and pull the trigger. But if you take the time to learn to shoot with one, you’ll learn great trigger control.
AND none of this semi-auto nonsense about worrying over the trigger “reset” - let it out and pull the trigger again.
PS: I learned on a J-frame 22 LR revolver. Fire 5000+ round thru one of those and you learn a lot about shooting! Mine probably had over 10,000 rounds before I switched to centerfire rounds.
Then buy another one.
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