desert gator
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I am getting ready to purchase my first gun. This has been a dream of mine for years. Growing up I wanted to be able to have a gun and my parents said no. After high school I started college and did not get around to it. I got married and my wife said no to guns, than we got divorced No parents around, no wife around. I ran to my local gun shop and signed up for hunters safety, my ccw, and pistol safety classes.
As I have been talking to people I cant believe how many people have a gun, and other than when they first bought it never shoot it or do anything with it. My best friends dad tells me he has a 9mm that is up in the closet and its been a good ten years since he last got it down. I look through the local gun ads and 1/3 of the guns for sale where purchased with in the last month. People say I bought this gun two weeks ago but have decided that I dont want/need it, or I bought this gun ten years ago, shot it once and never touched it again.
The responsibilty of owning a gun, and the cost of buying one is huge, I am dumb founded that so many people appear to buy one on an impulse with out putting any though, research or study into it.
As I have been talking to people I cant believe how many people have a gun, and other than when they first bought it never shoot it or do anything with it. My best friends dad tells me he has a 9mm that is up in the closet and its been a good ten years since he last got it down. I look through the local gun ads and 1/3 of the guns for sale where purchased with in the last month. People say I bought this gun two weeks ago but have decided that I dont want/need it, or I bought this gun ten years ago, shot it once and never touched it again.
The responsibilty of owning a gun, and the cost of buying one is huge, I am dumb founded that so many people appear to buy one on an impulse with out putting any though, research or study into it.