[METS]

My first new gun I bought was a S&W model 640 purchased in 1993.I paid $350 out the door including a holster.It was my first off duty gun til I switched to G26.Still have it.

[donmor53]

Originally Posted by Lowjiber

My first "new" gun was a Stevens, single-shot, 20ga that I bought at the local market/carryout/liquor store on Rt66 in rural Missouri when I was twelve.

After saving money from my paper route, I rode my bike on the shoulder of the road about three miles to pay $23 for the gun and a box of #4 shells. No background checks, no questions asked.

I've had many guns over the years since, but still have that one.

Now, Obama thinks he's gonna take my guns. Over my dead body.

Although mine was used...I bought the exact same shotgun for $15 when I was 13 years old in 1966. I still have mine too...

[p01ic3m4n]

My first was a Ruger P90. I traded a used Colt Double Eagle lightweight officer's model for it. I couldn't find a duty holster for the double eagle. I traded the Ruger halfway through the police academy for a new Colt 1991.

[Soonerbldr]

My first gun purchase was in 2003, I was in grad school and worked at a bank and we were robbed. It was the 2nd time I had been robbed at gunpoint and even though I was never really anti-gun I was more ambivalent.

So I did some research and then went to Academy and bought a Ruger P90.

Since then I've become a bit of a gun nut but I still have that P90. Shoots great and if I run out of ammo I still have a heck of a club!

[rvanpelt]

In 1966 I took most of my high school graduation money and bought a new Ruger Single Six convertible .22/..22WMR handgun. If memory is correct, I believe it was close to $90. I passed this on to my son. A few months later I bought a Ruger Bearcat .22 handgun new for around $40, which I traded because I didn't think I could shoot it very well. Hindsight is 20/20. I don't think I had to fill out any papers for these two guns either.

Rod van Pelt

[deadmanglocking]

Originally Posted by FSHNFVR

Mossberg 835 ulti-mag from Sport authority in 1997 paid I don't remember ~$300.

Same here but from Walmart.

[plp]

My first purchased weapons as an adult were 4 Chinese made SKS rifles bought at a feed and grain store in New Madrid, Missouri back in 1994. They had them on a pallet next to the checkout counter with the whole kit for the princely sum of 39.95 each.

Four days later I walked through the Memphis airport to baggage checkin with a handtruck carrying them and 3000 rounds of Soviet can ammo, if I remember correctly the extra cost for being overweight exceeded what I paid for the ammo.

Not counting person to person purchases, pawnshop and gun show purchases, the first brand new out of a retail store purchase I made was in November at Bass Pro for a Browning Buckmark Practical .22LR.

[byf43]

First new handgun - S&W mdl 39-2. Spring of 1979. Paid $219.99 + tax.
Sold that POS shortly after getting it. Sold it for what I had in it.

First new revolver - S&W mdl 19-4. October/November 1979.
Paid $247.95+ tax.
Rosewood stocks, RR/WO.
Still have it.



I added a TH/TT after it returned from S&W for the new barrel, and bought a set of Goncalo Alves stocks for it.

I tried to decide for a couple of weeks, whether I wanted the 19-4 for "$250" or buy a Colt Python 4" for $335.00 + tax.
At the time, I couldn't justify the additional $$$ for the Python.

Coulda had a mdl 25-5, or a 27 (don't remember the dash #) for less than $350.00.
A mdl 28 was $265.00.

[catalyst686]

My first gun was a Glock 19 RTF2 with straight serrations on the slide. It was around $550 otd almost 3 years ago.

[Buck_Turgidson]

1972ish Smith & Wesson Model 36 Chief's Special, snub-nosed .38 revolver. Still have it. $100 new from Warshall's Sporting Goods in Seattle (was still a decent city back then before the socialists took over).

[LL6]

Originally Posted by byf43

First new handgun - S&W mdl 39-2. Spring of 1979. Paid $219.99 + tax.
Sold that POS shortly after getting it. Sold it for what I had in it.

First new revolver - S&W mdl 19-4. October/November 1979.
Paid $247.95+ tax.
Rosewood stocks, RR/WO.
Still have it.



I added a TH/TT after it returned from S&W for the new barrel, and bought a set of Goncalo Alves stocks for it.

I tried to decide for a couple of weeks, whether I wanted the 19-4 for "$250" or buy a Colt Python 4" for $335.00 + tax.
At the time, I couldn't justify the additional $$$ for the Python.

Coulda had a mdl 25-5, or a 27 (don't remember the dash #) for less than $350.00.
A mdl 28 was $265.00.

Love the classic lines.