Cheapest handgun you would consider using

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A good thing about inexpensive guns is that they can be a way to interest more people in owning them. I started skeet shooting with a Remington 870 Express, moved to a Turkish O/U, then an A-5, and now a Browning O/U. Even in you'll never have the means for a $1,000 gun, you'll probably have the means some day for a $350 gun.

I'm still good with sub-$200 guns for self-defense purposes. Plenty of good ones exist. I also think there are people in the U.S. for whom $150 is a lot of cash, especially when you add another $1-200 for ammo to practice with and then keep in the home.
 
I have a CZ-52 that I paid under $100 for a couple years ago. I'd be confident until I had to reload. The foolish mag release on the bottom never works too well.
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yeah, that mag release was NOT designed for fast reloads.
And it hurts like the dickens when you slap in a magazine with a flat palm out of habit.

And so does the lanyard loop on my Yugo M57 Tok, now that I think of it ... what is it about European Tokarev guns that requires bruises on the palm of my left hand?
 
"Cheap" is such a subjective word. However, I will bite at this. From my perspective, I will define "cheap" strictly by virtue of $$$ spent and that would be my Hi-Point C9 of which I paid $155 OTD at a STL, MO. Gun Show a few years back. I picked it up for a 'tackelbox-gun" and it's put several hundred boxes of wallyworld bulk downrange absent any issues. Next up would be my Beretta 21A ($225 NIB last year online--GR8 Deal! +$20FFL for a total of $245). It's a dream BUG and one of my favorite "cheap" buys. I could go on but you get the picture...

-Cheers
 
A hundred dollar .22 Heritage worked.

Not sure if they were armed or not but hands went under shirts and I displayed my trucks snake gun. Crackhead One and Crackhead Two jumped back in their fart can slash meth-mobile and up over the sidewalk and around the corner they went.

Not bad results for a cheap 'pot metal' 22lr.
 
Just as a side thought - cheapest for the maker or cheapest of me to buy new? IF the former, easily Glock. They've got an enormous profit margin based on playing on American's disbelief that anything inexpensive can be good.

Gee, rather sounds like the thread, eh? :neener:
 
My least expensive was Norinco 213. Very reliable and accurate with FMJ ammunition.
 
I'm a cheapskate, I have fully function guns that I bought for $20 dollars on up. The highest being around $500. I trust them all even if some are ugly as sin.
 
Hipoint...... Not pretty, Heavy as a brick

But what I have seen and my friends that I have shot, have been 100 reliable
 
The cheapest handgun I own is about $450 retail. But I'll shoot anything that I feel is safe. I do tend to stick to the bigger name brands when buying simply because I am no gunsmith and the odds that they will function out of the box are greater. No High Points, no Jennings, no RG's, etc. Brand is no guarantee howerver. Owned a Colt Gov't Model 380 that was a jammatic. Ditched it, hoping the next owner is in fact a gunsmith. :)
 
If I was on a tight budget and wanted a decent fullsize house/car gun I'd go with a Ruger P95.

Can be got new for $300-325, and has factory support, something you don't get with old milsurps. Parts, possible problems whatever I've got support.

Shoots cheap readily available 9mm Luger ammo.

Built like a tank with a long proven reputation for reliability and toughness, so I can shoot it as much or as little as I want, and it'll always go bang when I pull the trigger.


For a CCW type weapon I'd go as low as a Kel-Tec.

Same basic reasons good price, good customer service if needed, readily available parts and accessories, and a decent reputation.


Now those aren't my actual choices since I'm not on a budget,[ Kimber Gold Combat HD, XD40 vehicle, Glock 26 CCW] but I would be comfortable with those choices if I were strapped for cash
 
A Colt Python, a Glock 23, a Charter Arms 38, a sharpened stick, and a Hi Point -- in that order.
 
I have a lot of handguns that I bought cheap or are considered cheap.
Cheap guns I own.
High Point C9 $150 out the door
Phoenix Arms HP22A. $135 out the door.
S&W Sigma 40VE $250 out the door.
FIE over&under derringer 38 S&W $35

Hand guns I bought at a cheap price.
S&W model 36 $125 out the door
S&W model 19 $269 out the door
S&W model 10 $339 out the door brand new.

Conclusion: The model 10 would be the one I would choose for home defense.
And guess what? I do.
Regards,
Howard
 
My CZ 82 I paid $190 for it and would trust my life to it, amazingly accurate. Have a PA-63 for $175, not as accurate as the CZ but a good BUG. I also have a Taurus Pro 145 for around $300.
 
Little tip.

The S&W Sigma can be had almost as cheaply as new Hi Points, but feel slightly better. The Sigma is actually so close a clone of a Glock that Glock took S&W to court over copyright infringement and won. It's a Glock without the tenifer surface.

It does however suffer one problem: horrible trigger. My tipman trigger scale maxes out at 12 lbs and it took quite a bit of extra umph AFTER it maxed out for that thing to go click. I polished lightly inside the frame, the trigger bow, took a spyderco stone to the sear and swapped out a couple of the springs: got the trigger pull under 5lbs.

Took it to the range before I gave it back to Steve, to function test it and to see what kind of accuracy could be gotten out of the gun once it had a decent trigger. Full magazine produced an inch and a half group at 15 yards shooting off hand standing. Not terrific but far from horrible: particularly for a 1911 guy shooting a DAO pistol. :D

So if you need something cheap that works and can be made accurate with little work: you can pick up the sigma for less than $300.
 
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