Holy shit

My comment is directed at mainstream gun culture at large and not necessarily at this specific instance. My frustraion is with people who's only way to interact about firearms is to talk about upgrades and similar and constantly mention what somone "should have bought" or "should have done" or what they "need to buy". Especially for people's first guns, when they maybe can't come up with the cash to fully outfit their firearm.

I recall there was a comrade who posted that they had bought a Hi-Point, paid for on an installment plan. Many people who had no experience shooting that specific gun or maybe even at all told them in a derisive manner to just get a Glock because it was better, in spite of the fact that Glocks start at between four and six times the price of a Hi-Point.

A guy on Reddit getting asked why he didn't have an ACOG instead of a Primary Arms prism

Guns are part of a system, not the end all be all of your effectiveness in a deadly force encounter.

I guess that makes sense if you have $0.12 5.56, but even cheap optics are pretty good now and iron sights are far less performant across the board, especially for new shooters or people who don't have time to train extensively. It's a great skill for sure, just putting a counterpoint out there.

This new gun culture we have now is not even gun culture anymore, it's just worship of guns as conspicuous consumption objects. Every weapon post is full of disgusting reddit brain comments about how they didn't spend enough unless it's some $10,000 safe queen.

Also apparently the AR15 is a fudd gun now, lmao

It's all been downhill after the Colt SP1

Did this have the Government contour?

This post pretty much sums up the current state of the art as far as civilian firearm ownership in the USA.

You'd think so, it's Illegal in both states lol

Not helpful if you have to pay in installments for something that costs $100. We all know there are better guns.

That'll depend on your state, firearms have to be shipped to an FFL holder and they will need to know beforehand and you'll need to pay them to do this. Some states are super restrictive and there is more you need to watch out for. I would not recommend cheapo semi auto shotguns for a number of reasons, a handgun that can be concealed is a far more effective self defense tool that will be there when you actually need it instead of home in your safe. Hi-point, PSA Dagger, or G43x in order of price point. A cheap handgun with an optic is better than an expensive gun with iron sights and a cheap gun that you can shoot 1000 rounds through is better than an expensive gun you can't afford to shoot.

Congrats! I enjoyed shooting the Hi-point pistol, please let me know if you'd like any advice!

That's too bad. Is it your first handgun?