Hello TGO, I'm a newbee to this site and to hand guns, I bought my first hand gun last week a 38 special mainly because of the price and took it to the indoor range in Gallatin on Friday, my friend is a ex highway patrollman and gave me a bunch of safety/shooting pointers and finally I found some ammo for sale. I got to tell you I really thought shooting a hand gun would be easy but sadlly I was mistaken!!!! I'm just happy I was the only person shooting that day so I wasnt made fun of LOL. So I have a lot to learn and have been doing a lot of reading here and on the internet and I'm also purchasing a 2nd gun on Friday, a Ruger P345, looks to have a lot of safetys for beginners like myself and will be practicing hard for a few weeks before I go for my carry permit. This is a great site with lots of helpfull info, just wish I had more time to read everything... COOP