The First Pistol you bought.

[10mmshooter]

3rd Gen Glock 23.........because I was a cop at the time, and needed it for work.
I have since confessed my sins, and become a born-again 1911 guy. Traded the Glock for an AK. Bought a 1911.

 

[cz75bdneos22]

it was a davis .380 that i bought in a pawn shop..it was my last year of high school. i don't recall exactly how many rounds i shot through it before it started to jam..i did not know guns had to be cleaned!! i gave it away!!

 

[Dog]

Kahr P9, did lots of research on the intermet looking for my first ccw pistol. I couldn't get it to run reliably(sp?) and I didn't have the money to put into so i sold it. Financialy i was hurting anyway. So now I am saving for the next one and still looking for the perfect ccw piece. Hopefully I will be able to keep this one. :banghead:

 

[WhoKnowsWho]

First one, no research or price checking, a Charles Daly standard blue 1911. I'm still happy with it, but it needs some more 1911 company now.

 

[rappa]

Colt Diamondback .38. Bought it from a friend. He carried a Colt Defender and wanted to get rid of the .38.

 

[Billy Sparks]

My first handgun was a Ruger P90 .45. A friend on mine had a Ruger P89 9mm and when I bought my gun I HAD to out do him so I got a P90. It never really felt right in my hand and I sold it to purchase a Sig 9mm. Never looked back.

 

[Baron Holbach4]

In chronological order:

1) my first single action revolver: a blue 4.75 inch Ruger .357 magnum
Vaquero;

2) my first semiauto pistol: a stainless Ruger P97DC .45ACP;

and 3) my first double-action revolver: a stainless 4-inch Ruger
.357 magnum GP100.

 

[xjer]

Ruger P95DC, because it received such good reviews on TFL.

I now have two of them. Just like everyone one on TFL said.
You can feed them anything and they always go bang.

Mike

 

[Jonesy9]

Ruger GP 100 4" bbl, blued, changed out grips to hogues

 

[williegee]

In 1993, I bought a S&W 2.5" barrel Model 66 which is now my Dad's carry gun.

 

[clubsoda22]

well, i didn't buy it, but my dad gave me a Taurus PT92 AFS. I have since been given other guns since i can't legally buy them yet, but may own them if they are given to me as gifts or i purchace them from my dad.

 

[10-Ring]

My first was a semi auto Taurus 380. I thought I was getting a good deal but soon realized that value goes far beyond price.

 

[Checkman]

I was given my first handguns by my grandfather. He cleared out his collection, but the first handgun that I ever purchased was a Sig P245. Many other have since followed, but I like that P245.

 

[gulogulo1970]

Colt Double Eagle bought at Wal-Mart the day I turned 21. I bought it because I liked Colts, liked 45's and didn't trust myself with a single action automatic. In hindsight I should have bought a regular Government model.

 

[boing]

Used Glock 19, because the people I hung out with were Glock fans and extolled it's virtues. For the most part, they were right.

 

[SB1]

Stainless 92FS in 9MM

So far it's great! I have about 350 rounds through it now without any discernable problems I can tell. The gun is better than I am for sure

 

[Sean Smith]

Glock 23. Worked well, but sold it for a Glock 35, & now I'm Glock-less (and intend to stay that way).

 

[Pilot]

Mine was a Browning Challenger MK II .22 pistol, back in the early 80's. Very nice gun, but I sold it long ago. Yes, I should have kept it, but didn't do as much shooting back then. Since I have bought many .22 pistols and have kept all of them, but never got another Browning .22.

 

[Kingknives]

My first, on the day of my 21st birthday in 1979, was a beautifully blued Belgium made Browning Hi-power.

Why? I wanted one after seeing it in the movie Serpico, and just thought having 13+1 rounds was cool!

Now i recognize it for the beautiful peice of machinery it was. I don't have that one , but I have another, and though she's not as pretty, she's just as nice.

Joe

 

[Dr.Rob]

I owned a two pistols before I actually bought one. Both were gifts. A Ruger Mk2 and a Colt Commander.

The first handgun I walked in and bought with my own money was a a re-blued Colt New Service 1917 Army model. I had read about them in an old issue of Gun Digest where a SW 1917 was being converted to 45LC, funny they could have converted a Colt by swapping cylinders, but that would have been too easy. Secondly, a folk hero and famous lawman, Sid Hatfield of Matewan, WVA. carried two of them. Thirdly, Phillip Marlowe kept one in a hidden compartment of his car. Fourth, there was a famous Capra photo of a Mowhawked Paratrooper decked out with a tommy gun and a huge revolver.

I spied the old Colt in a used case at The Firing Line in Aurora, CO. I had to have it. I looked it over carefully, and asked for a bore light. The clerk behind the counter said something like "how about when you have cash money?" I returned the next morning, cash in hand and demanded a bore light from the same guy. He had a good chuckle, as did I. (Seems a number of foks had looked the old Colt over, one of the guys in the shop wanted to "Fitz" it, bought it out from under him.) Sticker price was an unheard of $275.

Passed on a VP-70 with 3 mags for $350 at the same shop later that year.

Still have the Colt, still shoot it often.

 

[Black Snowman]

My first handgun purchase was a Glock 24P

I was going to just be punching paper.

Here's the criteria I used to pic the gun:
Consistant trigger pull
Accurate
Durable
Ergonomics
Bigger than a 9mm

Glock was cool at the time so I looked at it. Tried the 1911 but the ergonomics didn't fit me at the time. Tried various revolvers but I decided I wanted an automatic. Didn't like the ergos of any of the other autos I tried.

When I had decided on the 24 the salesman kept trying to get me to buy the Glock 23 with a Lasermax guide rod laser. It was marked something around $850, the 24P was marked $700. Couldn't see the point in the laser especially at the loss of over an inch of barrel length and for more money.

I playing with it and he was urging me to play with it.
I said "The dot goes the same place as the sights."
He said "Ya, ain't it cool?"
I said "I guess, but I can just use the sights and save myself 150 and get a better shooting gun."

I got the extended mag release and the 3.5lb connector, longer sight radius and porting for $150 less than the compact with small read dot coming out of it.

I'm glad I got it when I did. A year or two later the 17L and 24 were replaced with the 34 and 35. Good guns, but have a thing for long barrels Plus the porting on the 24 is unique and much more effective than the little slots on the newer models. It does however soot up the front sight horribly.

 

[RightIsRight]

Slighty used S&W .357 Model 66 w/ six inch barrel.

 

[SavannahSteve]

In 1966, I wanted to buy a friend's 4" blue Python for $75 because it was so pretty, but bought a new Ruger standard automatic (blue with a 6-in tapered barrel and fixed sights) for $37 instead. (That same year, I also bought a $2500 Ford Fairlane 500 instead of that $4700 Corvette I really wanted.) I kept that first gun for thirty years, but never shot it well, and finally traded it in the late 1990's. I have since bought a Ruger 22/45 with a 4-in bull barrel and adjustable sights that I shoot much better, so I really have not missed my first gun very much and don't really regret having traded it.

 

[Ringer]

My first - a 1984 S&W Model 586. Not really sure but that may be my first "defensive" flashlight as well. Knew nothing about guns back then. I think I was influenced by Harry Calahan and really liked revolvers. For appearances I prefer the original grips, but for shooting I prefer these. It has served me well for almost 20 years, though I don't shoot it much lately.

 

[Gordon]

My first legally purchased pistol was a Berretta Jet Fire .25 in 64 . Carried it thru out college career.My father and other relatives had given me guns since I was 10 or so.I bought rifles and shotguns thru my teen years includeing a 20mm Lahti when I was 18! I had bought things like .410 shot gun pistol and Sheridan Knock about when I was a teen ager. Nobody seemed to care much then!