I kind of came at it from the other direction. Started with the FID and no pistol purchase permits because at the time I wasn't even sure I was going to get into shooting handguns enough to actually own any myself. My son had a Glock in .40 and a Springfield XD in 9mm that I'd get to shoot when he was in town, so it wasn't like I woke up one morning and said to myself "I gotta go get a handgun and hope that I'll like shooting it".
Even though guns have been in and out of the fringes of my life for most of it, I was pretty late to actually owning any, being in my late sixties when I applied for my FID. I'd like to think it meant I brought a little wisdom to my firearms purchases rather than emotion or a "just fall in with the herd and get the same things everybody else buys" mentality. It clearly brought a preference for the older form factors, and I still don't have an AR (don't care all that much for direct impingement, anyway). First gun I bought was a Mini-14, strongly reminiscent of WWII's M1 Carbine (and in a caliber with widely-available and reasonably priced ammunition).
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