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Choosing a handgun for new shooters
« on: September 08, 2024, 02:33:07 pm »
September 8, 2024
Choosing a handgun for new shooters
By Mike McDaniel

I’m often asked which handgun a new gun owner should buy. It’s a more complex question that most imagine. I’ve been carrying handguns daily, with a badge and without, for half a century. I began that journey in a time when semiautomatic handguns were not as reliable as revolvers, and there were far fewer models and types available. I learned to shoot with revolvers and eventually transitioned to semiautos. I haven’t owned a revolver for decades.



That said, revolvers are viable choices, yet less so that some would suggest. For a discussion of revolver strengths and weaknesses beyond the length of this article, go here. Small, concealable revolvers, and there are many on the market, are essentially expert’s guns. Their sights are rudimentary, their barrels short, grips small, they have long, heavy trigger pulls and they tend to hold only five rounds. Absent speedloaders, which are inconvenient to carry, they take a while to reload. In serious calibers like .38 special, they have considerable muzzle blast and recoil.

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