As a peace loving monk, I only condone violence when absolutely necessary - especially due to having prolific martial art skills.
However, I have an opportunity via a friend of mine who teaches firearms classes to perhaps partake in the "pew pew" should I choose to.
So what hand killing machine is best recommended for someone who's never owned one, but is a quick study in all things lethal?
Namaste
Pistol it sounds like??
The best gun is the one that lets you hit the target. That's the actual answer.
The internet is full of several tropes and memes that have ebbed and flowed over the last few years.
One of those is that the g19 is God's own all around.
Then there's God's round the .45 caliber.
If you want to make half the people in this thread love you and half the people in this thread hate you just espouse vehemently that .45 caliber or 9mm is absolutely much better than the other.
Somewhere in this argument the compromisers went from being this red-headed stepchildren to actually getting themselves a seat at the table and .40 became fairly popular amongst a lot of gun guys, though I'll admit my bias that I still think it's a red-headed stepchild and Only got popular because ammo was in short supply so you could actually still find .40 caliber about 5 years ago when all the 9 and 45 was gone then.
For most newbies, you should go rent a few guns and feel things out. Despite Glocks being very popular I have a little girl hands and they don't feel great to me. It's part of the reason I own a Springfield. A gun is great on paper, it might not be great for the person.
Same with rounds. Things like .17 HMR are popular for their ideal ballistic characteristics. However in most places such rounds are relatively expensive and in short supply and have been for quite a while. That might be okay for one of your guns. But not for a first and only gun. I shoot my worse performing .22LR more often and have done so for a decade because of cost and access to ammo at all times no matter the supply and the demand. It's hard to explain just how short supply ammunition was around 2010 or so. It's still not great but here in Texas there is literally nothing on the shelves for months at a time. And when that kind of stuff happens what matters is what you're going to just keep shooting and not take a break for a year.