buying a handgun: what do I need to know?

[mnglocker]

Did you purchase the safe to keep your wife in yet?

Are they expensive?
B

from what I've heard, they are the most expensive thing that will ever own you.

[xd9]

Honey, I bought a Gun. I bought a safe to lock it in. I'm taking a class next week to learn how to use it. I know it will take some time for you to get comfortable with. If you want to take lessons, I know a good coach and trainer.

Don't forget the..... "Oh yeah honey, and we can head over to the jeweler now to pick out your new shiny object of choice..."

[SAM]

CS---ARE YOU NUTS ???? Don't ever hide a firearm from someone in your own home-----be a standup citizen--tell your wife you want a handgun and go from there. Have you ever heard " Hold Yourself To A HIGHER Standard " ? That's what people that own firearms do. Just my .02

[Pat Cannon]

R.E.T. is right -- if you're not going to carry it, a shotgun is vastly more effective, AND it's cheaper. Plus you can say it's for hunting.

[mitchx3]

Please cease trolling.

[Holland&Holland]

A good mariage counciler.

[yang]

If you know your wife will leave you if you did purchase one, I'd re-evaluate your decision.

You guys should get educated yourselves on guns first before you even think about purchasing one.

[mitchx3]

If you know your wife will leave you if you did purchase one, I'd re-evaluate your decision.

Then they have a get-back-together child to finish up this hot mess. You can store it in the crawlspace next to (but separate from) the gun.

[Seismic Sam]

Ah geez, you people!!! How many times are you going to let this troll play you with the exact same schtick?? First time it was a rifle that his wife wouldn't let him keep in the house, and now it's a pistol and some of your are STILL offering sincere advice to this guy??

Just look at this guy's history of trolling, and wake up and smell the coffee!! http://www.mnguntalk.com/search.php?author_id=3049&sr=posts

[gyrfalcon]

Q: Do I need to apply for a permit to buy?

YES it's called a Permit to Purchase.

Q: If so, how do I do this?

LOCAL POLICE DEPARTMENT


You're asking questions that would only take a few seconds to answer if you did any research. Everyone here is correct, you stink like a troll.

[White Horseradish]

Ah geez, you people!!! How many times are you going to let this troll play you with the exact same schtick?? First time it was a rifle that his wife wouldn't let him keep in the house, and now it's a pistol and some of your are STILL offering sincere advice to this guy??

If this is trolling, it's not very good - there isn't anything here to cause a huge argument and nothing to make people giving advice look bad. At this point i don't really care if he is a troll. The reasoned responses might actually come in handy for some poor bastard who really does have that kind of a marriage.

[mnglocker]

The reasoned responses might actually come in handy for some poor bastard who really does have that kind of a marriage.

Glad I can provide them.

[Seismic Sam]

As I said in the last go-around of this charade, what are the actual chances that any gun owner could meet a woman, at some point take her back to his place where guns were present, even if locked up, go all the way through a serious romance and wind up marrying her without the subject of her hating guns coming up at some point?? Unless somebody got drunk and woke up in a Las Vegas motel married the next morning, I maintain that the chances are ZERO, as in no way in hell is this story beleivable. Other people smell fish just like I do, and I really can't see why we should be wasting bandwidth on a troll, PARTICULARLY if the rationalization is that martial advice from a sarcastic SOB like mnglocker might be valuable to somebody at some point in the future. I mean, seriously, would you accept ANY advice on a serious emotional issue from someone whose license plate is GO AWAY??? This is mnguntalk, not the Ann Landers column!!

Meanwhile, dear old Carl is cackling away that he has manipulated us into wasting more time with his made up stories. If you want to be his pet dupe you have the right to do so, but please don't try telling us that we should be playing along because somebody in here might benefit from an opinion on how save a marriage that couldn't have happened in the first place.

[White Horseradish]

As I said in the last go-around of this charade, what are the actual chances that any gun owner could meet a woman, at some point take her back to his place where guns were present, even if locked up, go all the way through a serious romance and wind up marrying her without the subject of her hating guns coming up at some point??

I thought he wasn't a gun owner yet.

I mean, seriously, would you accept ANY advice on a serious emotional issue from someone whose license plate is GO AWAY???

Prolly not. Then again, I married a sane woman, so what I do might not be typical.

This is mnguntalk, not the Ann Landers column!!

Well, <prohibited word removed>. Now you tell me...

If you want to be his pet dupe you have the right to do so, but please don't try telling us that we should be playing along because somebody in here might benefit from an opinion on how save a marriage that couldn't have happened in the first place.

Umm, Sam, I didn't tell anyone to play along. I just said I didn't mind if anyone did. If someone wants to waste their time, who am I to stop them?

[Seismic Sam]

As I said in the last go-around of this charade, what are the actual chances that any gun owner could meet a woman, at some point take her back to his place where guns were present, even if locked up, go all the way through a serious romance and wind up marrying her without the subject of her hating guns coming up at some point??

I thought he wasn't a gun owner yet.

If you look through Carl's current and previous incarnation, he has been posting here about guns for nearly a year. Initially he came on like Joll himself and asked leading questions and tried to elicit death threats from people that he could use against them, and then in his current incarnation supposedly shows off a lot of knowledge about guns that pretty much proves that he's lying about his gun knowledge OR actually knows what he's talking about, which means he was lying about being a noob to begin with. Either way, he's lying through his teeth and trying to provoke as much controversy as possible.

So: He's been yapping about PTP's and CCL's and good scopes knowing a mint gun from a used gun since January, and it isn't until 10 months later that he FINALLY finds out that his wife hates guns and won't permit them in the house?? Well, I challenge you to name ONE regular member of this forum where this situation would be conceivably possible. Give me a name. And you see nothing wrong with somebody who baits people like this continuing to be on this forum??

I don't buy into that reply mnglocker. You said what you said and so did hammAR. Two direct threats to my life.

I have good Idea.
Let's let the cops figure out who is right and who is wrong here.
Ready to play with me mnglock?
Let me know how lucky you feel. I bet you don't reply and flee. If you want to reply to the challenge, let me know.
After all, you are right.

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