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If you had 0 guns and were just starting out, which two would you buy and why? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hitting the gym to become a swoletariat, looking to arm myself as well.

I've gone shooting before, and my Dad just bought a couple guns himself because of all the pogroms he's been seeing against Muslims in ingerland.

I'm based in the United States of Amerikkka, mods please let me know if this isn't allowed!

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

you need a piece with the fewest possible moving/degradable/high-maintenance parts, which is a wheelgun.

This isn't really correct. Revolvers have quite a few moving parts and they can absolutely break and their timing can go out or just straight up fail. A striker fired gun that you can tear down yourself and re-assemble is a much simpler and easier to diagnose and fix weapon than any revolver.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Easier to diagnose and fix once you learn everything, but also a lot more that can go wrong/break/jam. I'm just saying that I'd trust a revolver left loaded in a toolbox for 15 years way more than a 10 year old Glock I might see next to it if I needed to grab one and fire.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

That's the beauty of the Glock, there's so few parts that there's not much of anything to learn. Revolvers are like lever actions, in that it seems like they'd be simpler and more robust firearms than newer things, but it's really the opposite of the truth and neither are user-serviceable. Getting either to run right may very well require the gunsmith to not just replace parts but custom fit them to make the timing work right.