Thinking of living in my car for a few months when I graduate, and probably will need a gun for safety. What would be a great gun to start with? Preferably affordable please
Thinking of living in my car for a few months when I graduate, and probably will need a gun for safety. What would be a great gun to start with? Preferably affordable please
In a car you probably want something small. And since you are a beginner in a dangerous area you definitrly dont want a gun with safeties that can really fuck you up in emergencies. Its very easy to forget if you have a switch up.
Simple but reliable guns like the glock would be best. As it has a high capacity and double action triggers means no manual hammer needs to be pulled back. This is coming from a glock hater too mostly because it looks like a brick to me. I personally have an aethetics first 1911 but its clearly not suited for self defence with its low capacity, safeties single action nature while not being 100% reliable and jams every couple hundred rounds or so.
A double action revolver can work too due to its simplistic nature but revolvers all have low capacity which may be a big enough downside for some people.
This is poor advice IMO. If you train with any gun of choice, whether it has a safety or not is irrelevant to self-defense. If you are UNtrained with the gun, though, the gun not having a safety makes it a much greater liability to you at all times.
If you are a beginner, you are at the most likely point in your time with a firearm to have an ND while drawing. Also, the gun is as much a risk to you as it is to your assailant (and everyone around you) if you’re untrained with it. Training with a safety directly provides the muscle memory to disengage said safety, so it doesn’t hinder you when you need.
This argument that “you might forget” something you do every time you raise the gun up during training makes as much sense to me as forgetting your pants at home. Just always practice the gun draw with the safety on, and you will have the safety disengaged before you have sights acquired like clockwork. Ride the slide.