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I got my first handgun in a hardware store here in the county seat. The store is long gone. They had only a few short guns...an H&R 949 (which is what I purchased), a blue Ruger Super Single Six, a stainless Ruger Security Six with a six inch barrel and the scarce Ruger oversized wooden grips (looked a lot like the Goncalo Alves oversized targets on Smith's) and a Nagant. The Nagant was the uglist mfer I had ever laid eyes on and had a double action trigger pull that I'm not sure I could do with just one finger. I think I may have put two hands on it and pulled with two fingers.

We bitch and moan about guns a lot but the truth is, a lot more people seem to own guns now, at least in my part of the country, and a helluva lot more own handguns. Back then a .22 and a 12 gauge were standard and some of the old men had a .22 or .38 pistol that you never heard about or saw. A few guys had a 30-30 or an '06, but they were the rich ones that hunted Colorado or New Mexico.