Hendu024
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I'll make this as short as possible. A friend of mine owns a small business in Maine. He said he had a guy come into his store yesterday who looked pretty sketchy and was asking some questions that seemed a little off. Long, long story short, the guy ended up stealing his wallet off the counter without my friend noticing. ( I know, that's the first mistake, having the wallet out in the open) Anyways, when he realized it, he called the bank and all that and the guy was already out making purchases. After the cops took forever to show up and take the report, the guy was long gone.
So in the midst of this conversation I had with my friend today, he said "You know, what if no customers had been in the store and/or if he didn't see my wallet and wanted money, it could have been a lot worse." He knows I carry, and we started to talk about carrying in our places of business for self defense and all that. He said he would be interested in a revolver, because he would feel more comfortable with it.
He is definitely not an experienced shooter, and he's not going to dive right and and start carrying everywhere, but he wants some protection at his store. Putting aside all the gun safety stuff he should do first and everything associated with that (I will be going over plenty of that with him), I wanted to get some recommendations on a concealable, reliable revolver for an inexperienced shooter.
I am mainly a semi auto guy, but I have fired plenty of revolvers and I am definitely biased towards S&W. What are your recommendations? I know there are other threads elsewhere on revolver recommendations, but I wanted to hear what you guys have to say about it under these circumstances.
Thanks!
I'll make this as short as possible. A friend of mine owns a small business in Maine. He said he had a guy come into his store yesterday who looked pretty sketchy and was asking some questions that seemed a little off. Long, long story short, the guy ended up stealing his wallet off the counter without my friend noticing. ( I know, that's the first mistake, having the wallet out in the open) Anyways, when he realized it, he called the bank and all that and the guy was already out making purchases. After the cops took forever to show up and take the report, the guy was long gone.
So in the midst of this conversation I had with my friend today, he said "You know, what if no customers had been in the store and/or if he didn't see my wallet and wanted money, it could have been a lot worse." He knows I carry, and we started to talk about carrying in our places of business for self defense and all that. He said he would be interested in a revolver, because he would feel more comfortable with it.
He is definitely not an experienced shooter, and he's not going to dive right and and start carrying everywhere, but he wants some protection at his store. Putting aside all the gun safety stuff he should do first and everything associated with that (I will be going over plenty of that with him), I wanted to get some recommendations on a concealable, reliable revolver for an inexperienced shooter.
I am mainly a semi auto guy, but I have fired plenty of revolvers and I am definitely biased towards S&W. What are your recommendations? I know there are other threads elsewhere on revolver recommendations, but I wanted to hear what you guys have to say about it under these circumstances.
Thanks!