hi I'm Pete with allen's Arsenal and I'm here to talk to you today about picking
a handgun I get a lot of novice people who always come to me and ask me about
picking out a handgun and which one is right for them
and the reality of it is sort of like asking your friend who drives a Ford
and there's nothing wrong with Fords well which car is the perfect one to
drive and he's always going to tell you a Ford typically it's always the same
thing with picking out a handgun you get a guy who all he's ever fired is Glocks
are mostly all of you ever fired is Glocks he'll always going to tell you
that hey if you get a Glock 19 or a Glock 17 or whatever that's the perfect answer
however and nothing against that person he hasn't broaden his horizons and
looked at other guns to shoot at and it's also going to go along with how
you're going to carry it where you're going to keep it or whether you're just
going to have it on your nightstand somewhere your home you're going to keep
it on your body if you're female you're going to keep it in a purse backpack
things like that I'm just going to talk about those all those different things
and things to think about and just things to consider when you go to pick
your next handgun so anyways since I started with a Glock
I'm going to go ahead and just point out this Glock 19 right here this is a
simple Stan raishin Gen 4 Glock 19 holds 15 rounds okay you can see about the
size of it I'm a six foot tall guy got average-sized hands and you can see how
it fits in my hand right here okay your hands might be it might be a little too
big for you considering the fact that it this is considered a double stack
magazine okay and going along with that still sticking along with the double
stacks this one's a little bit shorter this is a Springfield XD as you notice
it in comparison to the Glock 19 okay if you want to carry something to give you
a little bit smaller print than the Glock 19 you can carry it with it's nine
round magazine right there which is going to be flat or if you wanted to you
can go with the extended magazine which is going to go ahead and hold 12 which
will give you that full extension so that way when you go to fire the firearm
you will be able to have a full grip on it if you have full-sized hands okay
going on down the line just a little bit smaller is your Diamondback this is a
nine-millimeter they also make them into eighty as you can see in comparison to
the Glock 19 it's much thinner and much smaller in size okay you can have it
like this you can just stick in your pocket however if it's going to fall
around your pocket if you wanted to can find little leather devices like this
where you can put it in totally legal okay you put it inside there fully
operate the whole thing operate the slide load the gun change the magazine
pull the trigger and you can turn around with this carrying like your front
pocket your back pocket that way it's not going to rotate or fall around or if
you put it in a backpack it's in that simple squared area all right going off
again with you're a little bit thinner profile of the firearms you have your
Smith & Wesson shield alright this is actually a performance model ported on
the top to allow for less recoil as the muzzle flip comes up this also has your
fiber optic sights again comparing it to the Glock 19
as far as overall it's not that much smaller it is quite a bit thinner so
again if you're carrying this up against your body you're carrying it your purse
it's going to give a lot smaller profile you will go ahead and have a you can
have a seven or eight round magazine all the way in there it looks about like
that as you notice as it sits in my hand it's all the way flat okay
a little bit the if you were just to have the seven round magazine it's going
to go ahead and come just about there that way it will be just above where the
pinky area is on person of my size so moving on to the 1911 tried-and-true
been around for well over a hundred years okay I know there's a lot of
people who are for it and a lot of people who are against it it's
definitely battle battle-tested throughout the ages it's being used all
the way up till today yes I know understand there's still the bread in
the Glock that's being used overseas as well okay but you see how it fits in the
hand okay roughly sized this would be
considered a full sized 1911 right there it is a lot thinner then your then your
Glock 19 but as you notice in size it is a little bit larger
you can go ahead and get it in a compact version or a officers model which is
going to make it a little bit smaller overall okay and even with this one you
can go ahead and get a seven round magazine and hold one it and in the
chamber for a total of eight rounds these of course are 45 caliber you can't
get them in nine-millimeter from there I'm going to go ahead and talk about
revolvers there are some people who don't like carrying magazine-fed guns
are afraid that they might get a negligent discharge of the firearm so
they'd rather have something some type of revolver this right here I have a the
Smith-Wesson this actually you can change the grips over so when you see it pink and
black you can have it one color or the other that's not really my point here if
you have them to where they have a hammer or there's ones that are hammerless in this case this one actually has a recessed hammer this is good for
someone's carrying in a purse or bag or close to the body whenever they go to
draw it out you don't have to worry about that hammer coming back and
getting caught on something and if you're a person to where you're going to
pull the trigger you have a hard time maybe you just have weak hands your
arthritic something like that you have a hard time pulling that hammer back while
you pull the trigger back what you can do once you remove the firearm for
wherever you have it you can go ahead and pull that hammer back that way it's
already in single action mode and you can go ahead and pull that trigger it
will be a lot easier of a pull and you don't have to worry so much about
pulling off the target while you're pulling that long trigger so from there
I'm going to go ahead and show you the Smith & Wesson bodyguard this one does
have a laser and lasers can be attached to pretty much every firearm I just
talked about from one company or another there are pros and cons to all of them
okay and that is up for you to decide on whether you want to have one or not I do
my biggest suggestion with them if you do put a laser on your firearm or have a
firearm with a laser into it ensure that it is zero correctly in other words
pointing to where you want the gun to be to where you want the gun to hit at
approximately I would suggest 10 to 15 meters away so that is all I have if you
have any questions you can go ahead and hit us up on the comments section below
thank you