[Mr. 16 gauge]

BritRGJ,
As Adam has said, welcome......

When you go to buy your first handgun, I'm sure you will get lots of advice from these forums, if you so choose.

I have a pen pal in Scotland.....kind of amazes me that here in the States, we can own handguns, but folks in the U.K. cannot, and that folks in the U.K. can own/use silencers, but we here in the States (for the most part), cannot. We are restricted as to night shooting (lamping), but not in the U.K., and that in the U.K. ones shotgun must be physically altered to hold no more than 2 shells in the magazine, yet here in the States a plug is sufficient.
Kind of a crazy world we live in......seems to be getting crazier all the time.

Again, welcome to the forums............