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1.Buy a gun that is made by a company that is still in business today.
2.Buy from a gun store or someone you TOTALLY trust and know very,very well.
3.Do not spend more money on a used gun then you are willing to lose in that purchase outright.
4.Unless you buy from a very well known internet gun site that has a written return policy-which usually means you have to return it as soon as you inspect it at your FFL reciever and have them ship it back if you do not like it-do not buy any used guns off the internet.
5.Understand that any gun you buy-should you now like it-you will likely lose HALF of the value of that gun if you go to trade it in on another gun-and that means if you buy it today-shoot it today and hate it-and take it back to the gun shop-you just lost half what you paid for it in trade in.
6.Rimfire revolvers get abused often-buying them used requires that you check the back of the cylinder for ANY firing pin marks,cylinder wobble and the like.
7.It costs you nothing to simply spend some time and actually learn about the handgun you want to buy.
The internet is priceless for this.
And that learning process can save you thousands of dollars of heartache.
8.Once you get experience with guns and know what to look for in potentially bad ones-you can take chances but remember-most used gun purchases are no returns.
Most gun shops only have time to do a quick once over on any gun traded into them so they simply cannot guarantee you a troublefree used handgun.
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