I am looking to buy my first handgun. I have very little experience with guns, though I did shoot rifles when I was a kid.

Can you give me some advice on buying one or point me to some good resources?

  • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    19 天前

    When they said “generic” in comparison to drugs, what they were trying to convey is, other than some aesthetics “carbon fucking copy”. It was marketed as a clone, which means all Glock parts fit interchangeably. You could take a slide off a dagger and put in on a Glock, or a Glock trigger housing and put it in a dagger.

    A dagger is generic to a Glock like ibuprofen is generic to Advil. They are exactly the same functionally, just the package and name brand tax differ. It’s not like comparing generic building blocks to name brand Legos.

    • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      18 天前

      Thanks for the clarification. I would have assumed there would be legal issues with that. Like with medicine, I think they have 5 or 7 years in the US before generics can start getting made.

      • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.todayEnglish
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        18 天前

        I’m not sure how the patent works with mechanical stuff, but I know Google have been essentially the same for close to 50 years. They just changed something to make them not able to accept a “switch”, but the Internet engineers broke that before the new models were even out, lol!