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<blockquote data-quote="beast1989" data-source="post: 1827300" data-attributes="member: 15449"><p>OP please listen to these guys. Ripnbst hit the nail on the head. Your life is worth more than what a $200 home defense handgun can offer you. I have seen the hipoints jam every three rounds first hand.</p><p></p><p>I don't want to echo everyone else too much, so I will move on to a different piece of advice. When shopping for your first handgun take your time with this process. Go to a gun store with no intent to make a purchase on the spot and just handle all the guns you can until you find a couple that stand out. *Then come home and read some reviews about the guns and get a GOOD understanding of the going rate for that gun, that way when you come across it in the wild you can avoid being ripped off (ie gun shows etc). Or to keep it simple when buying new if you can beat buds gun shop by a couple tens of dollars it will usually be a very solid deal.</p><p></p><p>If you are set at about $200 then buy a shotgun so you can adequately protect your house for the time being (that's how I started out).</p><p></p><p>You have been on OSA longer than I but you just started speaking up, welcome and glad to have you.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="beast1989, post: 1827300, member: 15449"] OP please listen to these guys. Ripnbst hit the nail on the head. Your life is worth more than what a $200 home defense handgun can offer you. I have seen the hipoints jam every three rounds first hand. I don't want to echo everyone else too much, so I will move on to a different piece of advice. When shopping for your first handgun take your time with this process. Go to a gun store with no intent to make a purchase on the spot and just handle all the guns you can until you find a couple that stand out. *Then come home and read some reviews about the guns and get a GOOD understanding of the going rate for that gun, that way when you come across it in the wild you can avoid being ripped off (ie gun shows etc). Or to keep it simple when buying new if you can beat buds gun shop by a couple tens of dollars it will usually be a very solid deal. If you are set at about $200 then buy a shotgun so you can adequately protect your house for the time being (that's how I started out). You have been on OSA longer than I but you just started speaking up, welcome and glad to have you. [/QUOTE]
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