Category: Handguns

How to Buy a Handgun

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Congratulations! You’re ready to buy your first handgun. But what are the steps to take in making such a worthwhile and important purchase? The first step in how to buy a handgun is to know your budget and keep in mind any accessories you might want to acquire. Ammunition, a holster, a carrying bag, ear protection, and eye protection are essential when you are practice shooting.

Don’t be afraid to ask questions. You might have a knowledgeable friend or an enthusiastic employee at a local gun range that can help you. Decide what the purpose of your gun will be; self-defense, recreational shooting, concealment? Also be aware that laws regarding handguns differ from state to state.

There are two types of handguns: semi-automatic and revolvers. Semi-automatics have many different distinctions, but the best bet for beginners is to pick something that will be reliable, and not require meticulous maintenance. Your goal is to know how to work your gun effectively and it to be comfortable in your hands. Some popular semi-automatic handgun brands to use are Glock, Beretta, Springfield, Smith & Wesson and Ruger. These are just a few of the many handgun brands that are available. A good semi-automatic makes an excellent beginner’s handgun.

Revolvers are reliable and quite easy to use. They are easy to load and you don’t have to worry about loading a magazine properly or fumbling with the slide as in semi-automatics. Revolvers come in a wide variety of weights and sizes, but they are often not as comfortable to hold as a semiautomatic, have limited capacities, and are often not as easy to shoot. Beginners should choose to buy this handgun when they want sheer simplicity above all else.

After you have narrowed your search considerably, try on the gun. Hold it in your hand and check if it’s comfortable enough. Do your fingers find the controls easily and could you handle the mechanics under pressure? The most important thing is to visit a range and do some target practice. The skills needed to operate your handgun effectively will only develop with practice.

Choosing your first handgun is a learning experience, but knowing what you’re going for and doing some research will really help you narrow it down to where you’ll be extremely happy with your purchase. Shop with GrabAGun for handguns for sale, magazine deals, ammo to go, holsters, and more! Get a handgun for sale online at a price you’ll love from GrabAGun.

Back to Basics: Semi-Automatic Handguns

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Types of Semi-Automatic Handguns

Developed in the late 1800’s, a semi-automatic handgun is a type of pistol that has a single chamber and barrel and uses the power from each fired shot to load a new round into the chamber while simultaneously ejecting the used casing from the gun. This allows another shot to be fired as soon as the trigger is pulled again until the magazine is empty.

Ammo for semi auto handguns is loaded into a removable magazine that is commonly inserted into the grip of the gun. There are no current federal US laws regulating the maximum amount of ammo a magazine may contain though several states have imposed their own restrictions. Texas does not currently have any restrictions on ammo capacity.

Semi-automatic handguns only fire one shot per pull of the trigger, unlike fully automatic weapons that will fire continuously while the trigger is held down until the ammo limit is reached. A revolver can also fire a round for each pull of the trigger, but does so in a different way and is not considered a semi-automatic handgun. Revolvers don’t automatically eject the spent casing when a new shot is fired and typically hold fewer rounds than a semi-automatic. A revolver will also take longer to reload because you must manually eject the casings and load each round separately. Semi-automatic handguns reload much more easily since you can insert a fully loaded magazine into the gun very quickly. Some self-defense experts believe that these factors alone mean that semi-automatic handguns posses a significant advantage over revolvers. With any firearm purchase, though, the best choice is the one that is comfortable and easy for you to use.

The concept and design of semi-automatic handguns has been widely accepted as the most popular type of concealed firearm and also as the primary type of handgun for military and police use. Modern semi-automatic handguns are available for a wide range of bullet calibers, commonly ranging from .22 to .50 caliber.

As with any weapon, operational and safety training is vitally important as well as proper maintenance to ensure that it is used and stored safely.

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Product Spotlight: The Glock 17

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The world of firearms is a vast one and the realm of handguns is a vast one too. With myriads of variations and permutations, there truly is a handgun for every taste, style, and occupation. However, amongst the many different handguns, few ever gain enough traction to thrive in the public arena. Whether for high costs, weight, or unreliability; these constructs struggle to find a niche where they can build a following. The Glock 17 is not one of those handguns. Designed by a team of weapons experts assembled by Gaston Glock nearly thirty-five years ago, the Glock 17 has stood the test of time better than nearly every handgun in its class. Here are a few reasons to love the Glock 17.

1. Maneuverability

Scaling-in at under one and a half pounds, the Glock 17 is a light, maneuverable alternative to most of its contemporaries. Designed with heavy use of polymer-based materials, the Glock 17 takes the prize for comfort and handling in the handgun department. With a muzzle length of seven and a third inches, you can trust that this weapon’s going to go where you want and fast.

2. Magazine

Typically, a gun that’s light on size is also light on ammunition—not the Glock 17. With a seventeen-round magazine capacity, you can think less about how many rounds you have left and more about the target. Plus, this extra ammo has no affect on the aesthetics or the handling of the gun, keeping the height at a snug five and a half inches and the width at a sleek one and a quarter inches. It’s the best of big and small with this semi-auto handgun.

3. Reliability

There aren’t many specs you can throw out to demonstrate just how reliable the Glock 17 truly is. Suffice it to say that it is used by more police and law enforcement personnel than any other handgun in the world. The whole design itself is very simple with only thirty-four parts in the entire design. This reduces malfunctions and complex fixes. When you’re in a crunch, you do not want your gun to misfire. Neither do the cops, which is why they choose this handgun.

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There is a lot more that could be said about this Glock: its rifling, patented safety mechanism, and extra features just to name a few. However, the maneuverability and reliability are at the top of the list. If you want a high-quality weapon that you can trust, go for the Glock 17 at GrabAGun and pick up your 9mm ammo as well!

The Virtues of the Revolver

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All, I want to introduce a new blog contributor and fellow firearms enthusiast “Scorpio”.  He has been buying and shooting guns for over 60 years and has a lot of great knowledge.  He will be contributing to our blog on a regular basis so please come back and feel free to read post your own comments!

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The Virtues of the Revolver

When I open my gun safe my eyes fall upon several categories of guns and their various subcategories, somewhat in the same way that we breakdown vehicles into two broad groups: trucks (and their sub groups) and passenger vehicles (and their sub groups).  A major handgun category that I would like to comment on is the revolver.  A group that I believe has a lot to offer but has been overlooked by new and younger shooters due to the popularity of the Wonder Nines and their ilk.

One of the great virtues of the revolver is that it is consistently reliable.  Well maybe no gun is consistently reliable; after all it’s a mechanical device and therefore subject to malfunction.  But for me the revolver comes as close to being one hundred percent reliable one hundred percent of the time.  It is a weapon that can not only be counted upon to fire when asked to, but also extremely simple to operate and therefore does not require a complicated manual of arms to master.

Should you ever need to use your revolver to protect yourself and/or your family, you’ll want SIMPLE to OPERATE to be synonymous with AIM and squeeze.  A revolver has no safeties to disengage, no slides to rack, no magazines to insert (and then feel obligated to “tap the heel” to ensure that it is properly seated), and most importantly there are no magazines to lose.  No magazine. No gun.

You also do not have to concern your self with a plethora of causes on why your semi-auto pistol failed to fire, especially if you are in the wrong place at the wrong time.  If your revolver doesn’t fire, pull the trigger again.  Hearing a click when you want to hear a bang can be a deafening sound of the wrong kind.  Without stovepipes to fret about and with no “what-to-do-now” procedures to memorize, you have freed yourself for more important matters to ponder…like surviving.  A revolver can even be fired from inside your COAT pocket, with the emphasis being on COAT pocket and not pant pocket. It can even be fired when flush up against your adversary’s body—something a semi-auto can’t do, at least not more than once.  Remember that with a revolver you need only to Draw, Aim, Fire (hear bang) and re-holster.

Another important virtue of the revolver is that it is NOT ammo sensitive like many semi-autos can be.  If you can shove the proper cartridge into the revolver’s cylinder you’re good-to-go.  A revolver will shoot snake loads, target loads, and full power defense loads with equal aplomb.  Most semi-autos (if not all) are somewhat ammo sensitive.  I know from practical experience that my .22 semi-auto is very ammo sensitive.  Fortunately what it likes to digest can be bought at Wal-Mart.  And what it doesn’t like to digest I run through my revolver.  Don’t you just love it when there is an easy fix close at hand?

A very important plus for the revolver is that it can be kept loaded indefinitely.  There are no springs to stress like there is in a magazine.  Yes, I know that magazines can be kept fully depressed for years without any ill effect.  But I don’t know anyone who feels comfortable doing it. I know I don’t.   It must be the fear of having your magazine fatigued at the wrong time. No fear of that happening with a magazine-less revolver.

If you need to check your revolver to see if it is loaded, just open the cylinder or look in the cylinder gap for brass cartridge rims.  You also have the added bonus in knowing that after you’ve check the cylinder for ammo, there isn’t a round hiding in the breech. This type of error can be easily made with a semi-auto with serious consequences.

You can customize the grips on a revolver a whole lot easier than on a semi-auto.  You can go from small J-frame style grips to large target grips in every material known to mankind…or just make your own grips if you think you need another hobby.

Do you reload?  If you do then you won’t have to look far to find your brass because they are all in your cylinder just waiting to be plucked out.  It doesn’t get much easier than that, does it?

Yes, it does. Especially if you think it’s important to clean your gun after every shooting session.   It’s an axiom of mine that ‘A clean gun is a happy gun.  And a happy gun owner is one that has an easy gun to clean.’  Revolvers are easy to clean because there are no parts to disassemble so there are no parts to loose or springs to spring away as can happen with semi-autos.  So with little free time to spare these days, having an easy gun to clean is welcomed. This is a win-win situation for gun and gun owner.  What more can you ask of any gun?

I’m sure there are many of you saying that I purposely overlooked a major flaw in the revolver: namely its inability to hold more than six rounds while the wonder nines can hold up to 18 rounds.  Balderdash I say.  Watch for my future comments on why I don’t feel under gunned while carrying my six-shoot Colt Detective Special as well as my views concerning the virtues of the semi-auto pistol. To find a large selection of revolvers, handgun ammo and holsters for sale visit GrabAGun today!

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