Buying a Hand Gun

My friend wants to get a handgun for self-protection. My friend does not have the remotest idea of what is legal and what is illegal. My friend lives in Kansas City Missouri. Some questions:

Can my friend just buy a hand gun from someone at a yard sale? Perhaps then buy some ammunition at WalMart for it and place it in a drawer by his bed, if some intruder should break into his house?

Would such a hand gun, bought from a private individual, have to be somehow 'registered' with the Government? What would be the penalty if my friend did not register it with the govt?

My friend is basically interested in having a reliable handgun, for use in self-protection. He seeks to eliminate as many politically correct considerations and as much unnecessary hassle, as is possible.

Thanks All For Your Reply Here.

bad thing about buying from garage/yard sales (all person 2 person sales) you might in up with a P.O.S. or stolen gun. this is where it good to reg. the new gun with the locals or feds.(stolen bit) he better of getting a revolver instead of a semi more reliable

Tell your friend to call the local ranges and gun stores to find out about the next 'basic safety course' that is offered. It should cost him less than $100. In many cases, they are available for around $25. Such a course will usually provide a 2-3 hour class on all aspects of guns, and in many cases range time with a variety of handguns, and possibly long guns.

He can also ask ALL the questions he needs answered and will most assuredly get asnwers that are applicable to your locale..

This sounds like a post soliciting potentially incorrect information for use in anti-gun activity.

If it is not, have your friend contact a Kansas City lawyer to get CORRECT information for his/her situation. If qualified to purchase and own a handgun in Kansas City, he/she also needs to enroll in a firearms safety course, since he/she apparently knows nothing about safe storage and use of handguns.

#Tell your friend to call the local ranges and gun stores to find out about #the next 'basic safety course' that is offered.

An added benifet of visiting local ranges and gun stores is that they tend to want to avoid loosing their business license or Federal Firearms License so they are pretty much up to date on local, state, and federal laws.

Having spent so many hours in a local gunshop and indoor range that specializes in handguns that I could consider it my home away from home. Time has been spent on both sides of the counter and the questions asked were not unusual at all. They would tend to get asked a couple of times a day and if it was busy it was a constant stream of the same set of questions over and over.

Our gunstores will sometimes have the common questions and the answers printed out and taped to a corner of the counter or pinned to a bulletin board.

Hey troll you gotta be kidding!

Yep. 'Don't ask, don't tell'.

Ammo for a home-defense gun belongs in the gun. Of course, this 'presumes' the gun owner practices stringent 'gun control' (i.e.: 'This is *MY* gun. *I* control it.'

Good question. Try reading US Const. Amdt. V (that's 'fifth amendment' for the Roman-numeral-impaired), esp. the 'self-incrimination clause'.

'It depends.' In the 'Peoples' Demokratik Republik of Chikago', if 'caught' with an unregistered handgun, you could look forward to eternity in jail. Note also that, in the 'Peoples' Demokratik Republik of Chikago', one is not allowed to 'register' a handgun that has not been continuously registered since sometime before Jane Byrne became Mayor.

'Don't ask; don't tell.' And if you quote me, I'll deny having said it.

-jc-