Every day, there are people who have never owned any sort of gun – perhaps have never even shot one either – decide to buy a self defense handgun. They aren’t gun people and are not going to become fanatic gun people, they aren’t going to hunt or target shoot They just want a home-defense handgun, and they want one appropriate for concealed carry if they decide to go that route.

With the entire positive and negatives and ifs, buts and ands being factored in, this is the list of handguns for self defense I came up with. This article assumes that the gun owner is a healthy being, with an average intelligence of better.