New Guy
Hey folks,
New guy here, both to the forum and firearm ownership. I've been lurking here for a month or so after coming across the forum during my interwebs research into an appropriate handgun for home defense, target shooting and possible future carry. A couple of recent break-ins / home invasions in my area finally moved my wife to agree with me that having a firearm in the house might actually have some merit. So yes, I guess I contributed to all the recent panic buying. At any rate, after a lot of deliberation, research, and handling in local gunshops, I decided on a Gen 3 Glock 19, which I brought home last night. Figured that now I actually have the gun, I better sign up and check in here.
Grew up in a house with no guns, and really had no direct exposure to firearms until about 10 years ago, when I was trained with a shotgun for wildlife depredation as part of my job at the time, in airport operations (which I never had to put to use). Since then I've been to a range a couple times with a friend to shoot his Kimber 1911 with a .22 conversion kit and an S&W M&P 15-22. All that is to say I have relatively little firearms experience.
I'm looking forward to getting some professional handgun training (as is my wife) as well as learning as much as I can here.
Thanks,
TT