Three selections, in the caliber of .44magnum.

I don't really like the second one.

For me it'd be a toss up between the first and third.

 

The thing will be on your hip every hour you work. That's why light weight. You will probably never have to use it on the job, but when you do, you want to know it will work. That's why low failure rate. This may be a lesson in how to rationalize your way into one, or I may be asking, why not the best tool for the job?

Darkwalker, I'm with whoever said 6" or better. But I must ask, what is the purpose you are buying it for? To punch holes in cans & paper? As a carry piece? You are the one who has to be happy with it. If the cowboy SA look sends you, don't even thnk about the DA. If it looks more ballanced to you with the shorter barrel, get it. You will live with it, not any of us.

 

Nah, the laws are as I stated. THere's an age limit for everything and buying the suckers is pretty damn hard. Even if you can get a gun then there is either a limit on the power and range of them or the liscencing laws are so tough that they make it virtually impossible to keep them legally without good cause. The liscence has to be renewed each year too and if you have a gun then it has to be inspected by the police every year and you need a special and secure gun cabinet to keep them in.

About the only people who have shotguns or rifles are farmers and sportsmen who like to hunt and/or shoot for fun and they're very strictly regulated and only allowed to use their guns in predetermined places.

Handguns are outlawed exept in gun clubs and they are never allowed to leave those premises.

Mind you, despite the laws, there was a national gun amnesty last month that allowed people to hand in illegal guns with no fear of action taken against them and over 3500 were handed in over 3 weeks. Most of them were old WWII guns etc.

And Oct, I think the regulation of guns is a good thing. I don't agree with outright banning them, but I do like the way that it's all liscenced and makes it very hard to buy guns without obtaining proper liscencing permission.

 

Oh my God. May that never ever ever ever happen in the US of A. Dear God, I see why the NRA is so against all gun regulations. If I had a dollar to my name, I'd join the NRA right now, just because I read your post.

How can you like regulating them like that?

 

If a lot of people has guns there is much larger chance that someone would get shot. Imagine if everyone have guns, not everyone would be kvalified to have those weapons. And sooner or later someone gets shot because there is so easy for a freak or whatever to get his hands on a gun.

There is so easy to kill with a gun, just point and shot. When there is no guns around there is a less chance someone gets killed.

Also they can then controll if a freak has a gun or no, I think it sounds like a great system to stop guns from killing people.

Because if all people has acsess to guns more people dies.

We don't need to have the guns innspected every year, though, but the rules are pretty much the same in Norway too.

 

Umm... sorry, that's a mistake by me there. The gun iteself doesn't have to be inspected, but if you have a gun the you and your premises have to be inspected. It's only a brief visit by the firearms inspection department of the police and it's just to make sure that the gun is securely stored on the premises and not at easily stolen - hence the gun cabinets. They're just lockable metal cabinets that are fixed to the wall internally so that it makes it very difficult for the gun to be stolen.

 

I know nothing about guns, but I think the third one has the prettiest lines.
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I think it's a good idea to have guns be licensed. You have to be licensed to drive a car, which has another purpose BESIDES blowing holes in things. Mind you, I am not anti-gun, but I think the people who own them should have a healthy respect for the power they possess. I don't have any problem with requiring a "gun safety" course before you can buy one, nor with the waiting period you have to go through in the US. It's not about infringing on the rights of the gun owner, it's about protecting the people around them. The state I live in, you even have to take a class to legally operate a motorboat. Which you're FAR less likely to accidentally kill someone with than a firearm.

 

guns don't kill people; people kill people.
If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.

However, i do believe that one must be qualified to use a weapon, but there is no reason to extensively regulate shotguns and handguns beyond that.
But no one needs a rocket launcher, assault weapon, or other such thing, and the NRA and suck it if they really want to let people have these things.

Oh, and though i know absolutely nothing really about weapons, i think number 3 looks best, or maybe number 2.

 

But is isn't about needs, its about wants & the constitution. The second amendment fundimentalists carp on about "infringments to our constitutional rights". But those rights have been heavily infringed already.

When the nation was founded, the most advanced weapon systems on the planet could be, and often were, owned by private parties. Lafayette owned three capital ships that were the equal of anything the British had in the gulf or the Caribian at the time.

So, if the right to bear arms is, as Ashcroft claims, an individual right and not a colective right, why can't I go out & buy an F-16 & a pair of nukes to carry around on it? Other than a serious lack of that kind of cash.

I am trying not to be my usual snarky self here. This has become a real constitutional question in 21st century America. Believe it or not. :/

 

I like the 3rd one. The distance between grip and trigger look closer and the gun is overall beefier. I prefer a heavier high caliber hand gun myself. However, I personaly would not buy any hand gun I could not hold in my hand first and see how it feels. Hand guns are a very personal choice. You need to feel comfortable with it. See if you like the balance and such. If at all possible check if a gun range has that model to rent, then you will know. Unless, of course, your just looking to buy something pretty to look at.