Handgun Recommendations for New Shooters

By Bob Owens | 10:55 AM | November 25, 2016

Some very solid advice from Chris Baker of Lucky Gunner on selecting handguns for new shooters.

Shopping for a defensive handgun can overwhelming, especially for newer shooters. Here are a few general guidelines and some specific recommendations to get you started.

You’ll note that Baker sticks to a few proven brands. All of his recommendations are reasonable, and he excludes some very common and very popular inexpensive brands due to a long track record of quality control issues by these unnamed companies. Put bluntly, these guns are much less expensive for a reason, and that reason is a much lower degree of quality control, typically combined with cheaper/less durable materials and generally less care in turning out a quality product.

Bob Owens is the Editor of BearingArms.com. Bob is a graduate of roughly 400 hours of professional firearms training classes, including square range and force-on force work with handguns and carbines. He is a past volunteer instructor with Project Appleseed. He most recently received his Vehicle Close Quarters Combat Instructor certification from Centrifuge Training, and is the author of the short e-book, So You Want to Own a Gun. He can be found on Twitter at bob_owens.