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Choice is always a good thing until it isn’t and you’re overwhelmed. If you’re looking to buy your first gun, you might feel like one of those people standing in front of the spaghetti sauce section of their local supermarket. You can also find analysis paralysis at your local gun store, where blank-faced first-time customers confront hundreds of choices. As your online source for speed loaders, magazines, and holsters, we’ve got three steps you should follow as a first-time handgun buyer.
1. Firstly you want to identify the role the gun will play in your life: fun and skill building at the gun range, home defense, carry (open or concealed) or a combination? A good range gun is one that is bigger, and will also provide for good home defense. You can find a good handgun for everything, but that usually involves necessary compromise. Bottom line: your first handgun should be task-specific. Once you master that firearm you can buy other handguns for other tasks.
2. Test out and shoot some guns. How can a newbie choose between a revolver and a semi when they have no hands-on experience with the two types of pistols? Easy answer: they can’t and shouldn’t. You don’t buy a car without learning how to drive first so why would this be any different?
3. Don’t get married to the first gun you buy. It’s entirely possible and even perhaps likely that a first-time handgun buyer will buy the wrong gun or that you quickly outgrow your gun. Pistols don’t shed value like most consumer durables; you won’t take a large financial hit if you sell your gun.
The key takeaway: if you don’t like your first handgun it’s probably not you. You bought the wrong gun. Deal with it. At some point, you will find the handgun (or handguns).
