For "newbies"

Bob Owens at PJMedia is starting a series, "So you want to own a gun: Advise for the first-timer." The first installment begins

For those of us who grow up in “gun cultures” where firearms are merely another tool and fact of life, getting your first gun may consist of getting a pint-sized .22-caliber single shot rifle almost as long as you are tall when you are a child. It is a simple and expected rite of passage that is a mark of growing expectations, trust, and new-found maturity.

Bob goes on to give advise to those who didn't come to know guns this way.