Get a small or medium frame .38 Special revolver
By Bob Walsh
I am a gun person. I am a well-trained, knowledgeable and experienced gun person.
For starters, there is almost nothing so useless and even dangerous as a firearm, especially a handgun, in the possession of an inexperienced, untrained individual. If you are not willing to get training from someone who knows what they are doing, and are not willing to spend a little time and money in the process, you are much better off without one.
When someone asks me about what sort of gun they should buy and carry I almost always recommend a small or medium frame .38 Special revolver.
A lot of my reasoning is because the revolver, as opposed to the semi-auto, is operationally simple. They are fewer things to do wrong. There is only one way to load it. If you pull the trigger it will almost certainly fire. If it doesn’t pulling the trigger again will almost certainly fix it.
I have seen people load ammunition backwards into semi-auto magazines. I have seen people jam magazines backwards into weapons so hard they had to be pounded out of the gun with a hammer.
The .38 Special has adequate power for self-defense, especially with a proper bullet and loading. It is almost certainly capable of more accuracy than the person using it is. Ammunition is easy to get and relatively cheap (though not nearly as cheap as it used to be). The guns are available new and used in good shape in a variety of sizes and, with the proper grips, will fit almost anybody well. They can be had small enough to conceal well.
.38 Special revolvers are a decent all-around choice for the newbie.
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