Quote Originally Posted by Lurch View Post
If I was buying a gun for a new shooter I would take them to the gun store and let them pick out what they think is cool.
This.

When I was little, I saw various guns on the rack I wanted but my dad insisted on my getting what he thought I should have rather than what I wanted. That was four decades ago and I still don't see what harm would have been done to just let me get what I originally wanted... It's not like it was going to be used for anything more serious than tin cans and squirrels.