Cheapest handgun you purchased?

Dad runs into the "hey, you're into guns, right?" deals fairly often.
I think the best so far was $90 for a mystery revolver from a guy he worked with.

It was a S&W M-19 in pretty good condition, only a little holster wear. Dad gave it too me, and I still have it.
 
High Standard Sentinel, new in the box, 39.95. It was a few years back, a few years later I bought a S&W model 15 for 80.00 new in the box.
 
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Beretta Jetfire 950 .25cal. Paid $40.
 

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I've bought a lot of guns since the 70's but the cheapest was a Jennings .22 for around $55 new. There was also a used Raven .25 for about $30. There's been quite a few $100 guns in my life, the CZ52 and Norinco Tok being some of the better built ones.
 
The least expensive handgun I purchased was a Browning Buckmark .22 in the late 80's. it still works well and is accurate. I always use it first at the range.
Paid about $139 and change.
 
Mine was a CZ-52... well maybe not

Went into the local gun shop to buy my son his first handgun. They had a bunch of CZ-52's on display that looked like they'd been drug through the mud. Basically junk... along with matching junk holsters.

So I asked the guy if he had any decent ones... he said he had a whole pallet full of them but the best he could do is grab three of them and give me choice of the three. I said sure, why not.

He brought back three holstered CZs. Started pulling them out and one of them was absolutely mint. So I told him I wanted that one and that it was for my son's first gun. He replied, well in that case we can't put that nice a gun in a crappy holster, so he went back and grabbed a basically new looking holster for it. Total cost $125. Granted it was 20 yrs ago. My son still has the gun and I've never seen a better specimen.

But wait... that's not the best deal on a gun that I've ever gotten. My mother went to an estate sale in St. Paul, Minn. that was next door to my brother's house. The old guy had passed at 93 and they were selling his belongings. My mother bought an old style console radio for $50 and when she took it home and started cleaning it she said there was a dishcloth rolled up and stuffed back inside the radio. It was all discolored and yellowed. She pulled it out and it was wrapped around a 1929 .38 cal. Colt Police Special, 5" barrel. Serial number says it was built in early 1929. She couldn't wait to get rid of it, so I volunteered to take it off her hands. Took it to a gunsmith to have him check it out to make sure it was OK. He said it had never been fired and was a 95+ gun. He just recommended taking care of it and not shooting +P loads in it. The fit and finish on this depression era relic is phenomenal and its fixed sights are deadly accurate. Cost... shipping and FFL transfer fee.
 
My CZ-52 and Colt Official Police

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My cheapest gun was a High Standard Sentinel snub nose .22 lr. I don't remember the price. My first gun was a Ruger Standard .22lr. (now a MKI). It cost $28.50 new in the late 1950s. I still use it and teach others in my gun club how to field strip and reassemble them. It's a little tricky, but not that hard.

Yes, I'll admit that I'm an old fart.
 
It's a tie, more or less.

My Smith & Wesson 10-8 revolver - $300 OTD, at a gun show. Purchased from an old guy, who was liquidating his collection. Absolutely the most accurate hand gun I've ever owned.

My Smith & Wesson 6904 - $300 OTD, from a local gun dealer. Beat up looking police trade-in (re-import from Canada). Had been sitting in the case for a year or more. I offered them $300....and walked out with it. Absolutely superb in every way (except the finish wear). It is now my EDC.

My Smith & Wesson 6906 - $320.20 with tax, OTD, from the same gun dealer. Also a police trade-in....but really in GREAT shape. As superb as the 6904, except in much better cosmetic condition (shows almost no wear).

The 10-8 has since gone on to a friend, since I am no longer into wheelguns, but the 6904 and 6906 will stay with me always. I wish I'd bought them years ago and skipped most of the other pistols I've tried, while looking for the ones I'd really want to keep. But, alas, experience is a good teacher.

Ironic that, the BEST I have ever had, have also been the cheapest.....
 
Does free count?

My grandfather gave me his Ruger MKII for Christmas 2011.

It's definitly the least I've ever paid for a pistol... :D
 
I recently picked up a Colt Police Positive for $50.00 because it had been stored in an attic and the right side of the gun was rusted and pitted pretty bad. A local County Deputy Sheriff had offered $100.00 for it over the phone sight unseen, then changed his mind when he saw it. The bore and chambers cleaned up and look like new, the locking notches on the cylinder are fine, and timing is as perfect as I've seen in an old Colt. It'll never look good again, but shoots like a new gun. Perfect for throwing in a tool box or under the seat in the truck.
 
I picked up a Smith M10 that was cosmetically challenged for $25.00 while I was in the USAF from a fellow airman who needed money fast.
 
The least expensive I have is a RG model 23 that I paid $65 for. The cheapest however was an intratec cat 9, even cheaper IMHO than the RG.
 
Cheapest ever for me

Probably a Grendel P12 380 auto. Got it in the early 90's, I don't even remember how much. Only that is was fairly inexpensive.
 
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